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Iran, China exchange 712 million dollars worth of goods in six months


Through bilateral agreements, rather than international mechanisms, and using arms sales and dual-use technology transfers - nuclear equipment, guidance systems for missiles - to cement ties, China has obtained oil exploration and exploitation rights in some of the most turbulent nations in the Middle East and North Africa - Iran, Sudan, Libya, Algeria and, until the recent war, Iraq.
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As China is known to trade weapons for oil is China giving any of the following to Iran?

The Defence News report quoted James Mulvenon, a Chinese military specialist with the Rand Corporation think tank in Washington, as saying that there is “a very, very robust effort going on in China to have a wholesale move from some of the more primitive systems they used to use to land-line fibre optics, digital microwave and satellite communications.”

If these technologies are matched with skilled operators to create an effective computer-network attack capability, China could have a potent so-called asymmetric, or non-traditional, weapon to level the battlefield in a conventional fight against a more technologically sophisticated foe, such as the United States, Mulvenon said.
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Iran, China exchange 712 million dollars worth of goods in six months


10/25/04

Tehran, Oct 24, IRNA -- Level of trade exchanges between the Islamic Republic of Iran and China hit Dlrs 712 million in the first half of the current Iranian year, public relations department of Iran's Customs Administration announced in Tehran on Sunday.
Some 734,254 tons of goods valued at over Dlrs 110 million were shipped to China during the period, said the report.

Over five million tons of commodities worth Dlrs 601 million were imported to the country from China during the said period, pointed out the report.

Imports from China mostly consisted of engines, sodium phosphate, telecommunication equipment, motor spare parts, coil, mechanical equipment, machinery, computers and airplane spare parts, said the report.

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