Hi,

Source:AFP News

LONDON (AFP) - A leading human rights group has called China one of the world's most reckless arms exporters with one billion dollars in annual trade fuelling violence in countries like Sudan, Nepal and Myanmar.

"China is fast emerging as one of the world's biggest, most secretive and irresponsible arms exporters," Amnesty International said in a press release to accompany a report Sunday on the global arms trade.

The report accused China of helping to sustain brutal conflicts, criminal violence and other grave rights violations around the world, and indicated the possible involvement of Western companies in making some of the weapons.

"China describes its approach to arms export licensing as 'cautious and responsible', yet the reality couldn't be further from the truth," said Helen Hughes, Amnesty International's arms control researcher.

"China is the only major arms exporting power that has not signed up to any multilateral agreements with criteria to prevent arms exports likely to be used for serious human rights violations," she said in the press release.

The report said that China's highly secretive arms exports were estimated to be worth more than one billion dollars a year.

"As a major arms exporter and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it is high time that the Chinese authorities live up to their obligations under international law," said Hughes.

"They must introduce effective laws and regulations banning all arms transfers that could be used for serious human rights violations or breaches in international humanitarian law."

Recent deals brought to light by Amnesty included the sale of more than 200 Chinese military trucks to Sudan in August 2005 which it says were normally fitted with US Cummins diesel engines.

The United States has an embargo on the sale of weapons to both China and Sudan, where similar vehicles are used for the killing and abduction of civilians in the troubled region of Darfur, Amnesty said.

Civil war and a humanitarian crisis in Darfur have left 180,000 to 300,000 people dead and 2.4 million people displaced since February 2003.

The report cited "regular Chinese military shipments to Myanmar," including 400 military trucks sent in August 2005 despite "the torture, killing and forced eviction of hundreds of thousands of civilians."

China's deals with Nepal in 2005 and 2006 included the sale of 25,000 Chinese-made rifles and 18,000 grenades at a time when the government was brutally repressing civilian demonstrators, it said.

The report, entitled "China: Sustaining conflict and human rights abuses," also mentions a burgeoning market in Chinese-made pistols to Australia, Malaysia, Thailand and particularly South Africa.

China rejected the allegations in the Amnesty report on Monday, with assistant foreign minister Li Hui giving some brief comments.

"I can't agree to this," Li said when asked about the report at a briefing on a summit this week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional grouping.

"China and the other SCO member nations strictly follow the relevant international conventions and we live up to our obligations to international bodies and treaties," he said

The Chinese foreign ministry did not respond to requests for a more detailed reaction to the report.

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Good find Fish, I was reading about this on the train while texting IG's phone about this story. If I get a chance I will scan the articles I was reading which have some other collaborating evidence besides from AI.

And why do we trade-let alone have a trade deficit-with these bastards?

Because 5000 of Wal-Mart's 6000 suppliers are Mainland Chinese companies. Because the grill portion of every Weber grill sold in the US was made in Ningbo, China by a Chinese company. Because US companies don't care about politics, they care about profits and American consumers don't stop to think and ask questions before they support these companies with their purchases.

Because 5000 of Wal-Mart's 6000 suppliers are Mainland Chinese companies. Because the grill portion of every Weber grill sold in the US was made in Ningbo, China by a Chinese company. Because US companies don't care about politics, they care about profits and American consumers don't stop to think and ask questions before they support these companies with their purchases.

Isnt there plenty of other third world nations to make our crap. China needs our cash a hell of a lot more than we need our crap, other nations will be more than happy to use their slave labor to give us cheap plastic toys.

Between the patent violations and their moneys artificial value and the fact i just dont like them, screw em. Lets start tradeing more with India or malaysia or hell vietnam for that matter. We are giving a nation money so it can turn around and buy things that will eventually be used to kill Americans.

Yeh I'm country bashing, I dont think anybody would be upset if I bashed N. Korea so why not china. Both are crappy communist countries that world would be better without.

Interesting indeed,the Indian guy claims

Peace
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,but always posts threads about China and want to make conflictions between others while only India will be benefited and others lose.Interesting indeed and inclement indeed.
So will you stop posting threads about China ?IN fact Sandy used to do it a long time ago ,but he now have been get rid of that bad habit ,but you are still interested with others ,only the thief care about others more.
Stop you inclement words SF

Rabs wrote

Between the patent violations and their moneys artificial value and the fact i just dont like them, screw em. Lets start tradeing more with India or malaysia or hell vietnam for that matter. We are giving a nation money so it can turn around and buy things that will eventually be used to kill Americans.

reasonable in a sense.

Rabs wrote

Yeh I'm country bashing, I dont think anybody would be upset if I bashed N. Korea so why not china. Both are crappy communist countries that world would be better without.

stupid indeed and crazy enough.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5070220.stm

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/stor...58&p=y85638464

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10386270

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-12-voa11.cfm

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-6-2006_pg4_13

http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/542

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...222234,00.html

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...55E663,00.html

http://www.alertnet.org/redir/righse.../PEK166073.htm

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/144ef3a0-f9...0779e2340.html

And to explain YingYing's post and presence on the board I offer the following link...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...3-2703,00.html

"Society is changing, nobody is supporting this wholeheartedly, even people in the central propaganda department. They are aware they have no moral grounds for what they do - for which there is a Chinese phrase for 'dirty tricks' - so they just make calls or leave instructions, or attack the internet."

The attack comes from about 30,000 net police, he said, "because they don't want to issue documents or leave records".

The Chinese authorities are now trying to extend this drive by professionals for more pervasive media control into a broader moral crusade incorporating enthusiastic amateur supporters.

They have just established the Beijing Online Media Association, for which they are seeking to recruit 200 "net supervisors". Their goal, says the Beijing Propaganda Department, is "to promote the campaign of running the web in a civilised way, using the web in a civilised way".

These volunteer net police, acting like reserve constables, will "regularly receive instructions from the association to look for uncivilised actions and unhealthy information appearing on websites". For this, they will be paid the token sum of 100 yuan ($16) per month.

Qualifications for the new web snoops include education above middle school, being 18 years old and with more than three years' online experience.

They are asked to submit background including name, gender, age, work unit and political background, and to send a 300-character essay on "running the web in a civilised way".

From 2000-2004 Russia selled 26.925 billion dollar weapons while USA selled 25.93 billion dollar weapons but China only 1.436 billion dollar weapons only takes 1/20 of America.............

Its not a question of the amount of sales YY, its WHO the Chinese are selling the weapons to.

Originally Posted by bulldogg

Its not a question of the amount of sales YY, its WHO the Chinese are selling the weapons to.

america sell weapons to his "friends" and so does china.