For the longest time I have been sounding bells – both on this blog and “elsewhere” that we have a looming threat with the reemergence of what will soon be a new “Soviet Union”, and it’s increasing ties with China. China for it’s part has been strengthening it’s military might, and in 2005 signed an agreement with Russia to “lessen” what they both felt was increasing agression in the west.

Anyone who really thought that the old Soviet Union would morph into a true democracy in the vein of the US model is deluded. Both history and experience tell us that the warrior races that form both country know nothing except domination and world power if howbeit limited to their own back yard. Putin is an old world soviet not a new world diplomat. His aggressive talk regarding missle defense and breaking of shields over Europe isn’t idle chit-chat just for the headlines. He means what he says.

Now from Bill Gertz of the Washington Times, who has been chronicling the rise and increasing agression of China’s military gives us even more damaging evidence that they are actively engaged in covert agression towards the US:

“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.

The Bush administration has been trying to hide or downplay the intelligence reports to protect its pro-business policies toward China, and to continue to claim that China is helping the United States in the war on terrorism. U.S. officials have openly criticized Iran for the arms transfers but so far there has been no mention that China is a main supplier.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Wednesday that the flow of Iranian arms to Afghanistan is “fairly substantial” and that it is likely taking place with the help of the Iranian government.

Defense officials are upset that Chinese weapons are being used to kill Americans. “Americans are being killed by Chinese-supplied weapons, with the full knowledge and understanding of Beijing where these weapons are going,” one official said. The arms shipments show that the idea that China is helping the United States in the war on terrorism is “utter nonsense,” the official said.

John Tkacik, a former State Department official now with the Heritage Foundation, said the Chinese arms influx “continues 10 years of willful blindness in both Republican and Democrat administrations to China’s contribution to severe instability in the Middle East and South Asia.”

Mr. Tkacik said the administration should be candid with the American people about China’s arms shipments, including Beijing’s provision of man-portable air-defense missiles through Iran and Syria to warring factions in Lebanon and Gaza.

Apologists for China within the government said the intelligence reports were not concrete proof of Chinese and Iranian government complicity.

Pentagon spokesmen declined to comment. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy did not return telephone calls seeking comment.”

Noted this is in indirect involvement, but that’s the best way to win a future war by undermining your enemy by another. Gertz goes on to report besides the fact that these weapons are being used against our troops in Iraq, there are other considerations such as mentioned the reemergence of the Bear.

Alexander Litvinenko was murdered because of what he knew and more important what he was about to reveal. Read the book “The Blowing up of Russia” that got him axed.

Note what one reviewer of the book writes:

“In late 2003 nearly 4,500 copies of this book were seized and confiscated by the Russian Secret Service (FSB) as they tried to make their way from Latvia printing presses into Moscow. And no wonder. This book focuses on how elements of the old Soviet regime sought to steer Russia away from the liberal reforms since the fall of the old USSR. The multiple apartment bombings which ripped across the country in 1999, killing hundreds, were more than suspicious. The ‘terrorists’ were condemned and the tragedies quickly used as an excuse to drag Russia into a second wretched war with Chechnya which continues to this day. The book’s spotlight on the attempted bombing in Ryazan leaves little doubt as to who the enemy really was. “

Again, let’s not be those who have “looked into the eyes” evil and got decieved.