“China arms auti communist regimes” had been sprading in Chinese Internet since several years ago. But in fact China’s aid to Philippines was to fight against an Islamist terrorist organization “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maute_group”. I don’t know how could a islamist organization become “maoist organization”. Also I was banned on https://lemmygrad.ml/c/hoxhaism for repeating deleted comment. I accept but I think Wisconkom should treat himself with the same standard. He circumvented the ban by creating a new account. He should be treated with the same standard.
Somewhat related question: assuming that it’s true, does anyone know why China is/was selling weapons to Saudi Arabia?
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Yeah, several NATO countries have been selling weapons for a long time, and Amerika is obviously the main reason why Saudi Arabia can keep assaulting Yemen. I understand why China trades goods with countries like SA and “Israel”, but the CPC selling weapons while knowing this sounds weird to me (even if SA claimed that it would only use those weapons for defensive purposes). Maybe I’m just naive and moralizing, but I hope there’s some better reason than just money
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This is a very bad reason indeed, but the fact is that the actions of the country buying the weapons do not condemn the country selling them. So China can call for restraint on both sides in its diplomatic relations and continue to sell arms. Weapons are one of the few high-end industries that China can export, and the profit from one drone can be the profit from millions of washbasins or cups. China and the Soviet Union also sold a lot of weapons to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war, and I can only say that it was because they needed money.
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Unfortunately, even if China does not sell arms to it, there are always other countries that do. Even if every country did not sell weapons, the war would still result in a large number of casualties. Only no war could be the solution.
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yes
Me too
They needed weapons and China needed money
That’s it? Wasn’t this after the Yemeni genocide began?
Iraq and Iran were at war, so Saudi Arabia needed weapons
You mean during the war in the 1980s? I was thinking of the recent drone sales, etc.
Yep, the main reason for the sale during the 80s was money.
They sold DF-3 missiles for 100 million USD apiece, with the Saudis spending up to 3.5 billion USD (The PRC side was trying to sell them for 100 million RMB each, with the Saudi side interpreting the price as USD and quickly agreed to it). At the time the PRC only had around 2 billion USD in foreign reserves as well.
Well, that’s the same reason
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China’s weapons production is controlled by the government, not capitalists