China says opposes US sanctions over alleged arms supplies to Iran

[Deja Q]

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/12/28/afx2416781.html

BEIJING (AFX) - China reacted angrily to US sanctions on six Chinese companies for allegedly supplying Iran with military equipment and technology, demanding the trade bans be lifted.

'We are strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the US government sanctioning Chinese companies,' the foreign ministry said in a statement.

'The Chinese government has always adopted a serious and responsible attitude on the anti-proliferation issue, and has adopted a series of effective measures to strengthen export management and control.'

Well, our leaders want to play hardball... given how much US infrastructure has been moved to China, do you think it's wise for them to play hardball with a country that is still not our friend? (nope!)

[lvx35]

1. Wow, they are really strapping Iran with weapons, aren't they?

I get the impression Russia is too.

[mrcheerful]

2. I seem to get jumped on when I bring up the fact

that china has never been or friend nor have they been open or honest about the free give away of the american industrial base to china. I guess some think it doesn't matter where our jobs go, as long as they can get cheap goods at wal mart. Face facts china is true red commie state and they are looking out for themselves.

[Deja Q]

3. Well, they are obviously a fascist state.

They're not truly communism, but they are looking out for themselves and nobody else.

Just like how America has been doing the same (looking out for China and its fascist government) for 30 or so years.

Sadly, while walmart is the biggest offender, other companies are just as guilty of selling out to the enemy.

And too many of our populace are too stupid to think for themselves.

Of course, I'm sure you know the old saying: "No good deed goes unpunished".

[lvx35]

7. kinda good point...

Its true, china is not truly commie any more...corporatations merging with state is not communism, but it is associated with fascism.

[acmavm]

4. Yes China is communist. Yes China is looking out for itself. This country

a corrupt oligarchy looking out for only corporate America. We'll arm anyone while it suits us. We'll threaten anyone we've armed when that suits us.

I'm just trying to figure out what your point is. Anyone and everyone has always known that China is looking out for China. Who or what else would they be looking out for? It's not out of the goodness of their hearts that they bought sooooooo much of our debt.

[mrcheerful]

5. What I was getting at was how when I stated on another thread that

China was arming americas enemies and terrorist groups using american dollars, that made everyone who buys from wal mart and any other company that deals with china was supporting terrorists. I got the usual excuses, I'm poor and wal marts cheap ect ect ect. I been saying its been a big mistake for Reagan, daddy Bush and shrub to support any trade with china. For the main reason is all 3 of those repukes never think of selling trade goods to china, the repukes have always believed in selling them factories and importing finished products. At the expense of the american worker.

[lvx35]

8. You sir, are a genius.

I never thought that through, but its true, and so succint. Walmart to Iran. Its a direct connection.

[mia]

6. Of course they do...the Beijing-Teheran-Moscow connection

Central Asia, Washington and Beijing Energy Geo-politics


by F. William Engdahl

December 19, 2005


...Beijing takes the geopolitical prize

In October this year, Beijing scored a second major geopolitical coup when China completed a $4.18 billion takeover of PetroKazakhstan Inc. It was, in a sense, revenge on Washington for the blocking of the China acquisition of Unocal. US oil majors had made major efforts to lock up Kazakhstan oil after discovery of major oil offshore in the Kashagan field. They failed. ExxonMobil was charged with bribery of Kazakh officials to win presence in the Kazakh oil business, and a senior Mobil executive was later jailed on US tax evasion in New York tied to the Kazakh bribery payments.


...Washington suffers strategic setback

A major setback for Washington’s Eurasian encirclement strategy vis-à-vis China and Russia came several months ago when Uzbekistan’s autocratic President, Islam Karimov, told Washington it could no longer use the Karshi-Khanabad military air base in southeast Uzbekistan, a major piece in Washington’s Eurasian chess board play put into place after September 11, 2001.


...Beijing-Teheran-Moscow

At the end of 2004, Beijing signed a $70 billion energy agreement with Teheran, China’s largest OPEC energy deal to date. Sinopec agreed to buy 250 million tons of LNG over 30 years from Iran, as well as to develop the giant Yadavaran field. That agreement covered the comprehensive development by China’s state Sinopec of the giant Yadavaran gas field, construction of a related petrochemical and gas industry including pipelines. As part of the huge Iran-China economic cooperation agreement, China’s state-run military construction company, NORINCO, will expand the Teheran Metro underground. A second phase in the Iran-China strategic energy cooperation involves constructing a pipeline in Iran to take oil some 386 kilometers to the Caspian Sea, there to link up with the planned pipeline from China into Kazakhstan....



Energy is the Achilles Heel of China’s economic growth. Beijing knows that only too well. So does Washington. A decision to take military action against Iran would pull a far larger cast of actors into the fray than Iraq.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20051219&articleId=1562