China says shipment of arms for Zimbabwe may turn back

As protests intensified across southern Africa against the shipment of Chinese-made arms intended for Zimbabwe, the government in Beijing said Tuesday that the ship carrying the arms — owned by a large Chinese state-owned company, Cosco — may return to China because of the difficulties in delivering the goods.

[uspatriotvet]

I'm wondering, Mugabe trying to do an arms deal
with Communist China,(No big surprise there)
What did he expect to pay for the shipment with?
The Zim currency good for toilet paper, but
certainly it should be used to buy food for th
populace.

[wyojake]

Rice and beans might have been a better shipment.

[PUAL]

It will get there somewhere or somehow by any means neccessary.

[Sixpence]

uspatriotvet wrote:

I'm wondering, Mugabe trying to do an arms deal
with Communist China,(No big surprise there)
What did he expect to pay for the shipment with?
The Zim currency good for toilet paper, but
certainly it should be used to buy food for th
populace.

Mugabe is selling off the countries resources to pay his bills. He's bankrupt. He's not paying with cash but with the industries he destroyed. Selling them off cheap in exchange for Chinese goodies.

[In Real Time]

Is COSCO, the China Ocean Shipping Company, the same Costco Wholesale Corporation retail stores?

[they need]

Why China can't sell the arms to Zimbabwe??The shipment of arms is not illegal.Whoever will be the president of Zimbabwe, the country need arms.The economic of Zimbabwe has had a recession for a long time ,but they have the right to buy the arms.The arms of China are good and cheap,it's a normal business,it's nothing about human right or democracy.

[Patriot Chilly Willie]

Zim needs food not guns ~

they need wrote:

Why China can't sell the arms to Zimbabwe??The shipment of arms is not illegal.Whoever will be the president of Zimbabwe, the country need arms.The economic of Zimbabwe has had a recession for a long time ,but they have the right to buy the arms.The arms of China are good and cheap,it's a normal business,it's nothing about human right or democracy.

[wyojake]

In Real Time wrote:

Is COSCO, the China Ocean Shipping Company, the same Costco Wholesale Corporation retail stores?

No.

[wyojake]

they need wrote:

Why China can't sell the arms to Zimbabwe??The shipment of arms is not illegal.Whoever will be the president of Zimbabwe, the country need arms.The economic of Zimbabwe has had a recession for a long time ,but they have the right to buy the arms.The arms of China are good and cheap,it's a normal business,it's nothing about human right or democracy.

I guess if you weren't going to use them on your own people who were starving. Think grenades are a bit overkill or how do you do things in China? Oh that's right you just shoot people the cheap way that protest.

[umar]

right on and for all you losers out there STOP THE CHINA BASHING

[wyojake]

Wow deleters are busy everywhere today.

[Shandi]

In Real Time - COSCO is a shipping line and stands
for China Oriental Shipping Company. I do not
think it has anything to do with Costco Wholesale
Corporation.

[Bairn of Ecgtheow]

umar wrote:

right on and for all you losers out there STOP THE CHINA BASHING

Dictatorship China needs to be bashed until it lets its people choose its leadership in free and fair elections.

[Shandi]

To They Need - Zimbabwe does not need arms, it
needs food!!!!!!!! What on earth do they need
arms for, I tell you why they need them to use
against their own people - don't you read about
what is happening in Zimbabwe!!! Do not comment
if you have no idea about what is going on.

[Just Facts]

China is not America's friend...

[LNDINE]

oops.. didn't mean to move this story around.

[Sixpence]

Shandi wrote:

To They Need - Zimbabwe does not need arms, it
needs food!!!!!!!! What on earth do they need
arms for, I tell you why they need them to use
against their own people - don't you read about
what is happening in Zimbabwe!!! Do not comment
if you have no idea about what is going on.

They dont need foreign food, Mugabe would give it to his few supporters and not to his opponents. What Zimbabwe needs is a new president.

[echo510]

rumors

[Ralph]

echo510 wrote:

rumors

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[ssteach]

We need to boycott the Olympics in China to stop them from supporting these dictatorial regimes. Mugabe is among the most incompetent leaders in history and is driving Zimbabwe into the ground. Rathering than importing guns they need to import the white farmers who used to feed the country and give them their land back.