India seizes UAE arms cache bound for China
Indian authorities have detained a UAE military transport aircraft after it was found to be carrying weapons and explosives without declaring them, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported on Monday.
Why would the UAE be shipping arms to China, when the UAE does not manufacture much of any military hardware to speak of, while China is a gigantic exporter of same?
Speculations:
1) There are some things China doesn’t make, but wants from the West, which seems happy to sell them to the UAE, and the UAE doesn’t mind re-selling them to China.
2) China is planning some operations it wants to carry out with Western weapons…. to maintain deniability?
3) The weapons weren’t even going to make it to China, that was just the name on the manifest, and were in fact headed for someplace else… like maybe Al Qaeda or the Taliban, or? In this case, it probably wouldn’t be the UAE goverment, just someone using UAE as a transhipment point.
There is something behind the curtain here, that’s for sure.
