Cousin of wikileaks thread: China aiding Taliban

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by Freiwillige

Good ol' commies never change there stripes. Go figure we bail them out of WWII ...

I hope you're not saying that the U.S. bailed out the Soviet Union in WWII.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

I hope you're not saying that the U.S. bailed out the Soviet Union in WWII.

Think he was referring to ChiComs, although IIRC the US was more on the Kai-sheks side than Maos...but either which way, they and the Soviets kicked the Japs out of China.

[the_tyrant]

the possibility of this being true is really unlikely

Some ideas i got from a chinese forum:
"This is really unlikely, since the Taliban supports 东突(a Chinese Islamic terrorist organization)"
"China has a lot of investments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many Chinese experts are sent there to support the local government, I do not believe that china will actually do this"
"China sells weapons to Pakistan, so it is most likely that the Taliban got Chinese equipment from Pakistan"

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

the possibility of this being true is really unlikely

Some ideas i got from a chinese forum:
"This is really unlikely, since the Taliban supports 东突(a Chinese Islamic terrorist organization)"
"China has a lot of investments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Many Chinese experts are sent there to support the local government, I do not believe that china will actually do this"
"China sells weapons to Pakistan, so it is most likely that the Taliban got Chinese equipment from Pakistan"

Well if they got these weapons from Pakistan or Iran than that would be in violation of the reexport prohibitions that are part of such arms deals. In such a case China must stop exporting weapons to these countries otherwise these prohibitions are meaningless and the Chinese are just as guilty.

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

No, much more like Vietnam itself. Nothing sexy about it.

Well now that really depended on where you got to take your shore leave.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Well now that really depended on where you got to take your shore leave.

Well if they got these weapons from Pakistan or Iran than that would be in violation of the reexport prohibitions that are part of such arms deals. In such a case China must stop exporting weapons to these countries otherwise these prohibitions are meaningless and the Chinese are just as guilty.

Where did the communist bloc weapons that were shipped to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan come from and who was involved in that re exporting of weapons to terrorists?
Come to think of it wasn't Reagan involved in several illegal arms deals?
Glass houses eh

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Where did the communist bloc weapons that were shipped to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan come from and who was involved in that re exporting of weapons to terrorists?

Those weapons we got from China for that, we didn't have any agreement about reexport.

Come to think of it wasn't Reagan involved in several illegal arms deals?
Glass houses eh

At least we were doing it to get our citizens back. What are the Chinese doing it for? Money...

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Those weapons we got from China for that, we didn't have any agreement about reexport.


At least we were doing it to get our citizens back. What are the Chinese doing it for? Money...

Its all geopolitics, screwing with the us is pretty high on their priorities