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UK To Sell China "Unlimited" Military Technology, Radar Equipment

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

The contract governed by an "open individual export license (OIEL)" has been active since April, two months after Prime Minister Theresa May visited Beijing, as made public by Britain's Department for International Trade. 

Unlike previous deals involving British arms sales to China, which were capped by amount and value, under the new agreement the supplier can "export an unlimited quantity of goods", including equipment, components, software and technology for military radar systems, the department said.

Its strategic export control database described the equipment covered by the licence as "target acquisition, weapon control and countermeasure systems" for "aircraft, helicopters and drones". -SCMP

"It's potentially a big license, and it does say the end user is the air force," said London-based NGO Campaign Against Arms Trade spokesman, Andrew Smith, who added that while the open individual export licenses are typically valid for between five and ten years, "the values are never published, so the figure could be very high." 

Smith also notes that it's not just the UK selling military equipment to China - and that "almost all the other big arms exporters do exactly the same." 


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