China's arms sales 'fuelling civil wars'

China’s sales of military vehicles and weapons to Sudan, Nepal and Burma have aggravated conflicts and abetted violence and repressive rule in those countries, Amnesty International said in a report today.

The report by the London-based human rights group sheds light on an area of Chinese foreign policy that its government doesn’t disclose: assistance to regimes embroiled in internal conflicts and often shunned by the West.