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Communist China secures weapon (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

machete

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'weapon' is the definition.
(machete is a kind of weapon)

'communist china secures' is the wordplay.
'communist' becomes 'che' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'china' becomes 'mate' (china plate is Cockney rhyming slang for mate).
'secures' is an insertion indicator.
'che' placed within 'mate' is 'MACHETE'.

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(Other definitions for machete that I've seen before include "Knife for hacking" , "Jungle blade" , "Jungle chopper" , "Heavy South American knife" , "hacker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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