Many states selling oil or oil concessions to China Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Angola and Nigeria are buyers of Chinese weapons.

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Angola, to the south, has been receiving so much aid and investment from China that in 2006 it decided it had no need of the International Monetary Fund's billions and all the tiresome requirements for transparency and sound economic management that come with them.

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