The rifles were vacuum packed inside reinforced plastic bags with three rifles to a sack.

China North Industries Corporation, known as Norinco, is reported to have produced M14 rifles by the early 1970s.

The story continues that 100,000 Chinese M14 rifles were produced for an armed revolution in the Philippines.

In preparing for this work, the author interviewed a very reliable source with extensive firsthand knowledge of Chinese and Taiwanese production and export of small arms was interviewed for this work.

This policy changed dramatically in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping assumed leadership in China.

After 1978, the Chinese government pursued economic development and trade for the country, whereas before they promoted and supported communist dissident movements around the globe.

In the late 1960s, the Chinese government reverse engineered the design for the U.

S. Rifle M14 from weapons captured in Viet Nam.

M14 rifles and the necessary magazines and ammunition were produced by the Chinese for export to arm rebels in other countries.

These Chinese select fire M14 rifles were made to look just like captured American M14 rifles including even the serial numbers.

The Chinese government went so far as to produce 7.6251 mm NATO ammunition identical to British issue ammunition, though with corrosive primers.

This 7.6251 mm NATO faux British-headstamped Chinese made ammunition was exported to the United States and sold on the commercial market in the 1980s.

S. and British markings so as to avoid any connection to the Peoples Republic of China, and possibly to serve a role in disinformation (propaganda) campaigns for the planned uprising.

The first attempt was largely unsuccessful and the second was a total failure.

In 1971, Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines, chose Ricardo S.

Malay, then a columnist for the Manila Chronicle, to arrange the delivery of weapons from China to the New Peoples Army in anticipation of an armed uprising against Ferdinand Marcos.

Malay and his family therefore made their way to China in July, 1971.

Malay and his family were later joined in China by Sisons closest colleague, Ibara Tubianosa, and four other individuals.

Certain arrangements were made to package 1,200 of the rifles with magazines, a quantity of ammunition, and other military items.

The cargo was soon thereafter loaded onto the ship MV Karagatan.

The ship and its cargo sailed from the Chinese naval base at Swatoy headed for Digoyo Bay, Isabela Province, Philippines.

The New Peoples Army fighters, led by Victor Corpus, were waiting for the delivery.

A firefight ensued between the New Peoples Army fighters, led by Victor Corpus, who were waiting for the delivery and the Philippine troops.

The NPA was only able to salvage only 200 of the 1,200 M14 rifles and little of the other military equipment Mao Zedong had approved as aid to the Philippine revolution.

He proposed that the Chinese prepare a shipment of M14 rifles in watertight packages to be dropped off the Pangasinan coast for recovery by scuba divers.

Sanya is the capital of Hainan as well as the location of a Chinese naval base.

When Malay and Tubianosa arrived at Sanya, they were briefed by a Chinese military officer regarding the packaging of the M14 rifles.

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