You're telling me nobody in the Chinese government knew about this? Every third world hell hole on the face of this planet is chock-full of Chinese AK-47's and riddled with cheap Chinese land mines.
of course somebody in CHinese government know it.but it is not strange at all that China’s ministry of foreign affairs didn’t know about it until western medias exposed it.
personally speaking, I think the arm-sale may be connected with Baoli Company,led by the son-in-law of Deng Xiaopin, the former top leader of CHina.