A Chinese official confirmed on Monday that the Gaddafi regime sent representatives to China to discuss buying weapons from arms companies well after the imposition of UN sanctions but said the Chinese government was unaware of the visit at the time.
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All Chinese weapons manufacturers are state-owned making it hard for Beijing to argue that no part of the government was aware of the visit.

Lizzie Phelan is one of the ‘independent’ journalists covering Libya. She reported for Press TV (Iran) and Russia Today (much admired by Kevin Ellul Bonici).

She has much to say about ‘the mask of the corporate media’, and eagerly reports support for Gaddafi, but finds nothing strange about being locked up in the Rixos hotel by Gaddafi’s guardian of media freedom, or about people being routinely imprisoned without trial and tortured to death, as long as Gaddafi’s behind all of that.

But that didn’t stop her scrounging a place on the Triva bound for Malta, after it had been held at bay by gunfire and bombs.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63691.shtml

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“The CPC and Malta Labor Party signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation during Muscat’s visit, which runs from April 5 to 12.”

What would our voting pattern at the UN be, with a visit to brother Muammar Gaddafi followed by a visit to the Chinese Communist Party?

He is just as big a snake as his predecessors.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/africa-mideast/china-offered-gadhafi-huge-stockpiles-of-arms-libyan-memos/article2152875/page1/