Nigerian Civil War Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===China=== Because the Soviet Union was one of Nigeria's leading supporters, supplying arms on a generous scale, China, having recently become rivals with the Soviets in the [[Sino-Soviet split]], declared its support for Biafra.<ref name="whokilledbiafra">{{Cite journal|last=Diamond|first=Stanley|date=2007|title=Who Killed Biafra?|journal=[[Dialectical Anthropology]]|volume=31|issue=1/3|pages=339β362|jstor=29790795|doi=10.1007/s10624-007-9014-9|s2cid=144828601}}</ref> In its first major statement on the war in September 1968, the [[Xinhua News Agency|Xinhua Press Agency]] stated the People's Republic of China fully supported the justified struggle for liberation of the people of Biafra against the Nigerian government supported by "Anglo-American imperialism and Soviet revisionism". China supported arms to Biafra via [[Tanzania]], supplying arms worth some $2 million in 1968β1969.{{sfn|Stremlau|2015|p=237}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page