US fury at Israeli arms sales to ChinaThe sale of the most advanced weapons systems to countries which are obviously engaged in major increases in their military capacity – so as to underpin their plans for political expansion, either regionally or globally – is always discouraged, in principle, by those concerned to maintain the status quo, and those who see the seeds of future conflicts in arms build-ups, which duly produce arms races.The US – and theoretically the UN – has been concerned to c…