"CHINA??? Okay, I'm completely confuzzled"
China supplies/supplied weapons to the Arabs/muslims. Chinese nuke plans turned up in Libya, via Khan from Pakistan. China is behind North Korea's nuke. NK supplied the Ayatohlas in Iran. China is fighting a proxy war right now. Maybe they will get burned this time.
I wouldn't be surprised if you had several entities working together on a program in pieces. Any one country would be attacked immediately if they had it going on all at once, but if different, apparently disparate places were working on it. It's just a "cause for concern" and maybe a threat of sanctions from the UN.
Case in point. Iran is building rockets and paying lip service to halting nuke development. NK is stalling for time while it does some nuke work. It would not surprise me one bit to see NK nuclear materials inside a Pakistani warhead on top of an Iranian rocket headed toward a target specified by Al Qaeda.
Man, would our silos be busy if that happened!
A) Everyone, including our team, has supplied arms to 'Arab/Muslims' at some time or another
B) The Libyan nuke consortium project was funded by Saudi Arabia, brokered by Egypt, facilitated by Iraqi intel, with Pak technology and workers. I understand some Chinese engineers were minimally involved, but were subcontracted by Pak. Generally, it was an 'all-Islam' effort.
C) China is behind NK nuke. Concur.
D) NK tech to Iran. Concur.
E) I do not believe that China is conducting a proxy war at present, nor is heavily involved in proxy politics, excepting NK and areas of Central Africa and South America. However, they are definately positioning themselves to be players in a global conflict of some sort. Their current financial situation, IMO, is likely to cause them to start something sooner than later, probably with Russia or India.
Finally, China is having its own problems with Islamic Fundamentalism in its western provinces. Ergo, it would be a politically difficult thing to simultaneously fight and support an identified enemy, even if the target was Russia with whom I suspect the PLA will eventually pick a fight with anyway.
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