What do you do when a dictator seizes power (again)?

Send him arms. Yep, China is delivering a 70-tonne shipment of arms to Zimbabwe, ordered 3 days after the elections of three weeks ago (the results of which have yet to be released). This is such blatant repression and election stealing but no one in the international community does anything about it. China’s stance is that Zimbabwe’s political problems are it’s own affair and that anything outsiders do is interference. That’s like listening to your neighbour beat his wife or child and saying it’s a family problem and there’s nothing you can do.

While we westerners righty browbeat ourselves about our goverments’ terrrible track records of supplying arms to nutcases (see Iraq, Colombia, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Israel) China merrily backs regional hatred by blithely selling arms to various ‘rogue’ states (ie: the ones we don’t see arms to). In Sudan they send in arms and take out oil. Watch this program from Vice TV about Chinese oil installations in southern Sudan.

This stuff drives me crazy! For years I’ve been saying “if you want world peace, stop making guns”. God, it’s so depressing. I mean, here we are preaching about democracy, respect for human rights, progress and meanwhile we’re selling arms to dictators. At least China is honest about its corruption and carelessness. They don’t hide their trade and they don’t care what anyone says about it.