Another interesting article on the role Beijing plays in the instability of Central and South America and Cuba is found here:
http://www.brookesnews.com/041005zhang.html
Thank you Liberally Conservative for pulling up those links.
Venezuela plans to buy large quantity of Russian weapons
SNIP: Iraq says 'impossible' explosives taken before regime fall>
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A top Iraqi science official said Wednesday it was impossible that 350 tons of high explosives could have been smuggled out of a military site south of Baghdad before the regime fell last year. The UN nuclear watchdog this week said about 350 tons of high explosives went missing from a weapons dump some time after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in April 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion