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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:29 PM
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Venezuelan Military to Buy Chinese Radar Systems
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3Z5VZ0CE.html

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's defense minister has signed a deal to buy Chinese radar systems, the latest in a series of military purchases by the government of President Hugo Chavez.

The Chinese-made long range surveillance radars will be used by Venezuela's air force, defense officials said Friday.

Defense Minister Adm. Ramon Orlando Maniglia and Qu Huimin, the vice president of China's Electronics Import and Export Corp., signed the accord Thursday, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported.

The deal also includes the purchase of "other air security equipment" such as radios, and the possibility of renting a satellite communications system, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The cost of the deal was not disclosed.

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:03 PM
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1. Made with American technology, no doubt. What was it...
...that Lenin said about Capitalists hanging from the rope that they sold to their enemy?
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:06 PM
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2. Since when did Venezuela become the enemy?
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:10 PM
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3. think the poster was talking about China not Venezuela as the enemy nt
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:21 PM
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4. Venezuela is the enemy in Bushworld.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 11:42 PM
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8. The day Hugo Chavez took control of one humongous oil spigot
Edited on Fri Aug-05-05 11:43 PM by BrotherBuzz
and stopped kowtowing to Bushco and US oil interests. :shrug:
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Running Free Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:43 PM
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5. Heh...
I guarantee you that the corrupt CCP bureaucrats, and the Beijing-loving rightists in Hong Kong have far more sympathy for Bush than for Chavez...

It's just a farce to build patriotism and nationalism among the Chinese people while their government allows American and European interests to fuck them right up the ass in exchange for kick-backs.

Just like when one hears a Republican or a Liebermanite sabre-rattling about China, while all the while playing ping-pong and sucky-sucky with Taiwan's far-right pro-Beijing People First Party...

The only American political types with anything worthwhile to say about China are Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, Mike Malloy, and Nancy Pelosi.

The only Chinese political type with anything worthwhile to say about the West is Leung Kwok-hung
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Gyre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 09:54 PM
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6. That's really gotta piss off those corporate whores in the WH!
And we're the ones pushing the Venzuelans right into China's arms. :rofl:

Gyre
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 11:09 PM
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7. Bush&Co Failed All Marketing 101 Exams...
Screw-ups. Can't even be good at selling hardware!
Results: Even more outsourcing...
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