“What would Mao Zedong have said about this?” China Confidential blogger Confidential Reporter asks of a recently-released Amnesty International report.

“The human rights group says Chinese weapons sales to Nepal helped prolong and aggravate the conflict there,” the blogger writes, “where the country's despised absolute monarch was recently stripped of his powers after huge anti-government demonstrations by unarmed protesters and government officials have begun peace talks with the rebels.”