PLA's hand on blood diamond? Time for western media to wake up

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PLA's hand on blood diamond? Time for western media to wake up

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Across a remote tract of southern Africa, naturally fortified by mountains and patrolled by hundreds of soldiers with dogs trained to tear intruders apart, teams of mining experts are hard at work.


Yet they are not speakers of Shona, the native language of this land on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. No, thousands of miles from home, under a broiling African sun, these slim, pale-skinned figures are members of the Chinese military.


Working alongside henchmen from one of Africa's most murderous regimes — headed by Robert Mugabe — the Chinese are here to oversee Beijing's investment in the world's most controversial commodity: blood diamonds.


For here, carved out of the African bush, is a runway big enough for huge cargo planes. There is also sophisticated radar equipment, a fully-operational control tower and comfortable barracks for the Chinese officials overseeing the entire operation.


And twice a week, its wings wobbling on waves of thermals rising from this scorching corner of the continent, an Antonov An-12 cargo plane can be heard droning towards the airstrip.


The departing flights leave with rough, uncut diamonds worth millions.


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That's the picture portrayed by Daily Mail to illustrate Chinese military penetration in Zimbabwe, former British colony and an autarchic state in their eyes.  


Blood diamond (also called a converted diamond, conflict diamond, hot diamond, or a war diamond) refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity, usually in Africa, where around two-thirds of the world's diamonds are produced.


Zimbabwe has been accused of exporting blood diamond for long time but Kimberley Process, international diamond trade watchdog, in last month announced Zimbabwe's diamond complied with applicable standards and could not be labeled as "blood diamond".


As Chinese reporters found no picture or any solid source to support Daily Mail's accusation, they phoned China's embassy in Zimbabwe. The embassy confirmed China had investments in local resource business. But as to Chinese military allegedly overseeing diamond production in Zimbabwe? It's nothing but Daily Mail's imagination.

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It's not the first time for the western world to trump up stories upon the undercover oversea activities of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Africa such as secret flight course between Beijing and military operation office in Zimbabwe , and the deployment of 700,000 Chinese troops in Sudan. Most of such ridiculous reports are proved to be journalist's fiction at last.


Chen Yulai, a Chinese expert said that the west felt frustrated as they failed to coax China to condemn Zimbabwe. And the western world get used to viewing China's investments in Africa, their sphere of influence in old times, as the thorn in flesh. Therefore China is easily involved into reports on dark side of African dictatorship on western newspapers.


Western media deliberately mislead readers and vilify China with forged evidences and absurd speculations coming out of their prejudice and arrogance. Their lies could only deceive ignorant people and disgrace themselves.
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