Defender of the Faith...(on a train), page-58

interesting story about china and their dealings with a rogue that went by the name of bin laden

they were having a lot of trouble on their borders back in the 90s and so decided to do a deal with the locals by supplying them with sophisticated arms in return for peace on the border.china was to sign a big arms deal on sept 11, 2001

they used bin laden as a proxy to do some of their dirty work too