LOL, you were saying....
The Ministry of Commerce of China released data from the first five months of 2007 showing that $25.26 billion was used in the period to support 15,072 newly established foreign investment enterprises. The dollar amount was a 10% increase over 2006, although the actual number of new ventures dropped 4%.Take out the countries that are actually domestic sources and these United States are currently 4th or 5th.During the five-month period, the top ten countries (in terms of dollar amount) making investments were: Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands, Japan, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Singapore, the United States, the Cayman Islands, Samoa, Taiwan and Mauritius.
These 10 countries contributed 86% of all the money put into new Chinese ventures.
And of course we have Wal-Mart operating in China. I imagine they're selling 'non-military useful products', some not even made in China!!
No, you're right, the introduction of Western ideas through trade isn't working at all to move China away from communism....
China arming terrorists
New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran.
U.S. government appeals to China to check some of the arms shipments in advance were met with stonewalling by Beijing, which insisted it knew nothing about the shipments and asked for additional intelligence on the transfers. The ploy has been used in the past by China to hide its arms-proliferation activities from the United States, according to U.S. officials with access to the intelligence reports.
Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms.
The Washington Times reported June 5 that Chinese-made HN-5 anti-aircraft missiles were being used by the Taliban.
According to the officials, the Iranians, in buying the arms, asked Chinese state-run suppliers to expedite the transfers and to remove serial numbers to prevent tracing their origin. China, for its part, offered to transport the weapons in order to prevent the weapons from being interdicted.
The weapons were described as “late-model” arms that have not been seen in the field before and were not left over from Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq.
U.S. Army specialists suspect the weapons were transferred within the past three months.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070615/NATION04/106150051&SearchID=73285174398064
That’s complete bunk.
The United States has spent Billions (about 5 billoin so far) rebuilding Iraq.
And left tons of blood on the ground doing so.