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| China acts on Darfur after warning on Olympics | |
| 2007-05-11 | |
China responded yesterday to increasing international criticism of its close friendship with Sudan, appointing a special representative for African affairs whose first task will be to focus on the Darfur crisis.
Liu Guijin, an Africa veteran and former ambassador to Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been appointed as special representative. A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said: “Since the situation in Darfur has drawn significant international attention, [his] work will focus on the Darfur issue.” The appointment comes a day after 108 members of the US House of Representatives wrote to Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, urging Beijing do more on Darfur or face a public relations disaster during the Olympics. The letter said: “It would be a disaster for China if the Games were to be marred by protests from concerned individuals and groups, who will undoubtedly link your Government to the continued atrocities in Darfur, if there is no significant improvement in the conditions.” It added that unless China acted, “history will judge your Government as having bank-rolled a genocide”. Earlier this week China agreed to send nearly 300 military engineers with a UN peacekeeping force to Sudan. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 They're worried about conditions in Darfur+Sudan alright. Worried about their oil wells and oil worker technicians. The ones murdered and kidnapped by Islamo nutcases. Soooo, it is necessary to expedite 300 military engineers(is this their version of spec ops?) to the area. And, if this isn't enough there's 300,000 more where they came from. Short but sweet message from ChiComs----don't ever f**k with us again. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-11 20:51 |
| #8 Walmart's April-to-April sales are down 3.5% while other retailers are up. Maybe a boycott is under way already, or maybe people have caught on that really cheap crap is still crap. Wherever I look at China the creepy factor starts to kick in. The buses here in NYC are advertising a Chinese exhibition of human bodies, preserved, skinned and disected. The posters show a young, healthy Chinese man (with his Chinese eyes) who was flayed and preservatised. I look at him and think, "what was your story, pal?" |
| Posted by: Grunter 2007-05-11 19:22 |
| #7 that marks a shift from BeijingÂ’s policy of not interfering in the affairs of another nation. They must have used a snow shovel to scoop that much bullshit into a line of print. China is complicit in some of the most vile and ruthless tyrannies on earth. In related news: Nobody cares about China's continued brutal occupation of Tibet, its threats to annihilate the democratic republic of China in Taiwan, its alliance with nihilist-dystopian North Korea or its barbarous totalitarian oppression of its own citizenry. Keep those Walmart shoppers happy. Bingo, Excalibur. I'm glad to see that someone else has arrived at the decision to boycott Wal-Mart. Their purchases represent a solid 10% of our trade imbalance with China. The Chinese Olympics need a shaft in their spokes. I wonder if the pro-Tibet leftists will be able to bring themselves to boycott their socialist utopian brethern in Beijing. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-11 15:29 |
| #6 News Radio works for me...can't get enough of Moira Tierney. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-11 15:18 |
| #5 Not Barney Miller, how about a News Radio marathon? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-11 13:30 |
| #4 Exactly, Excalibur. Just let your local TV station know that you won't be watching the Olympics in 2008 so they might as well show Barney Miller reruns instead. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-11 12:31 |
| #3 In related news: Nobody cares about China's continued brutal occupation of Tibet, its threats to annihilate the democratic republic of China in Taiwan, its alliance with nihilist-dystopian North Korea or its barbarous totalitarian oppression of its own citizenry. Keep those Walmart shoppers happy. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-11 09:04 |
| #2 $$$ That's where you bite china. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-05-11 07:39 |
| #1 See also STRATEGYPAGE >PEACEKEEPING > CHINA WORKS BOTH ENDS article. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-05-11 01:22 |