Another black eye for China--arms for Mugabe

China's road to peace is scarred with huge potholes, many of its own making. Dafur, Tibet, Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Now the spotlight is on Beijing again for arms shipments to Mugabe's Zimbabwe. Although ordered before the defeat of Mugabe in Zimbabwe's elections, the old dictator won't go gracefully, so arms shipments drag up thoughts of turning the guns on his opponents who won the elections fair and square. Thanks, however, to South Africa's strong unions and the churches, particularly the Anglican church, China's arms are not unloaded and its ship carrying them has left port for an unknown destination. The church's and rank and file unions put South Africa's president Tabi Mbeki's role as a mediator in the Zimbabwe elections to shame. And shows him a man of small moral courage. China should shudder for its blind foreign policy which is based on its own fantasies and not grounded in the realities of the day!