Secret Bid to Arm Qaddafi Sheds Light on Tensions in China Government -- New York Times
BEIJING — At a United Nations conference in Indonesia this summer, an official of the agency that oversees China’s weapons industry ticked off the hurdles that any proposal to sell Chinese weapons abroad must clear. Among them: arms sales must not alter another nation’s internal security. They must not violate United Nations arms embargoes. And they must win government approval.
“If you want to export a product, you should get permission,” said the official, Wang Feng. “You want to talk to some other country, you ship to the country, you should get permission.”
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My Comment: China has always been an authoritarian country .... anything that is done will be known by someone in the bureaucracy .... and as for arm sales .... the foreign office and the military will (without question) be involved in that. But China is not governed uniformily .... there are different factions and interests involved (i.e. the federal government, the provincial government .... and it even breaks down to the municipal level) .... and even in these factions, there are usually more factions involved.
Button line .... the Libyan case has blown clear on what is becoming an international problem in China .... but my prediction is that until the Chinese Central government and the ruling hierarchy in Beijing itself get involved (which they will not) .... this double dealing will continue.
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