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| China 'asks USA to respect Pak sovereignty' | ||||
| 2011-05-24 | ||||
ISLAMABAD, 19 MAY: In the wake of the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden, China has “warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China”, a media report claimed today.
The Chinese leadership was “extremely forthcoming in assuring its unprecedented support to Pakistan for its national cause and security” and discussed all subjects of mutual interest with Mr Gilani, the report said. Mr Gilani described Pakistan-China relations and friendship as “unique”. Talking to Pakistani journalists accompanying him, he said that China had acknowledged his country's contribution and sacrifices in the war against terrorism and supported its cause at the international level. “China supported Pakistan's cause on its own accord,” Mr Gilani said with reference to the Sino-US strategic dialogue where the Chinese told the US that Pakistan should be helped and its national honour respected. Mr Gilani said China had asked the US to improve its relations with Pakistan, keeping in view the present scenario. Pakistan has turned to China, its “all weather friend”, for support in the face of reports that US lawmakers are pressing for cuts in aid. China has agreed to provide Pakistan 50 new JF-17 Thunder multi-role jets under a co-production agreement, The News reported. It is likely that these planes will be supplied by June next year. The two countries are also discussing the supply of Chinese J-20 stealth jets and Xiaolong/FC-1 multi-purpose light fighter aircraft to Pakistan. They are discussing the mode of payment and the number of planes to be provided to Pakistan, the report said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #12 Pak "sovereignty"? That's a pretty elusive concept if you ask me. If they can get the Talban and the ISI under control, I'd be willing to think about the idea of "sovereignty" for these clowns. They need to stop trying to divert attention from the obvious and fix their security problems. And they're lucky it was the US and not some other country, which it easily could have been. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-05-24 23:22 |
| #11 ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WIKILEAKS: SAUDI FUNDED MADRASSAS IN [south]PUNJAB PROMOTING RECRUITMENT [Tweens + Teens] FOR MILITANTS | [Dawn.com] WIKILEAKS: SAUDI ARABIA, UAE FUNDED EXTREMIST NETWORKS IN PAKISTAN, to the tune of US$100.0Milyuhn per annum. > Lots of Muslim Kiddies. > Families in severe econ poverty or related circumstances. > Kiddies assessed for penchant/dedication for violence. Lest we fergit, PUNJAB = where PAK is believed to had based andor stored the bulk of its indigenous Nuclear Arsenal. IOW, THE MILTERRS RECRUIT + TRAIN IN REGIONS WHERE PAK NUCLEAR BASES/PLEXES ALREADY ARE -iff one presumes that Radical Islam already has [Govt-allowed] access to PAK NUCWEAPS [Nukes-WMDS], then the question for both the USA + CHINA is why hasn't a STATE-SPONSORED NUCLEAR 9-11 TERROR STRIKE(S) OCCURRED YET!? Again, as per POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD + the JASMINE-LED ARAB UPRISINGS, the scenario is there that as time goes on NEITHER IRAN OR PAKISTAN WILL BE THE ONLY SOURCES OF NUCTECHS = NUKES-WMDS FOR RADICAL ISLAMIST MILTERR GROUPS. Any de facto US-IRAN WAR will become increasingly irrelevant or suborned to the ADVENT, NEAR-TERM THREAT OF ASYMMETRIC ISLAMIST-LED NUCLEAR TERROR ON A GLOBAL SCALE. In that situation, the US will have no choice but to unilaterally "spend spend spend" towards JAPAN-STYLE [Greece?], 200-PLUS% OR HIGHER DEBT-TO-GDP RATIOS, AKA "WHY YES, AS PER OUR 1990's SACRED NATIONAL COMMUNISM WE IN FUTURE PRE-OWG AMERICA = AMERIKA HEREIN DEMAND OUR ARROGANT FASCIST DECADENT CAPITALIST MALE BRUTE RIGHT TO SELF-IMPLODE"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-24 23:00 |
| #10 Lectures from murdering communist chinese aside, the longer I examine and participate in the problem set, the less reason I see for "respect" of any kind to be extended Pakistan. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-24 20:09 |
| #9 Guess Nobama will appease them, especially now that they control 51% of wal mart..... |
| Posted by: chris 2011-05-24 18:28 |
| #8 In effect this is telling us the same thing Pak tells India which is that they reserve the right to menace us with nukes and send terrorists to kill us but we better not do anything about it. I wish we had a president with the balls to tell them to FOAD and that we're gonna walk all over the Pakis if we damn well feel like it because they deserve it. The more nukes the Paks make and the more money the Chicoms take from us the harder it's going to get. Better to get it over with now. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-05-24 12:17 |
| #7 Anonymoose, how much of India's army exists because China is hovering menacingly over the border, just waiting for India to become enmeshed in Pakistan? And in the meantime China has engaged in moving the border markers into India while no one is looking... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-24 10:30 |
| #6 While India in principle, regards Pakistan as a "gnat", still there reaches a point, now that "the safety is off", because of the Mumbai attack, where India is going to go into Pakistan and just cleanse the place. With 1m soldiers on active duty, and another 1m in reserve, there is still no geographical way to pacify Pakistan, so the alternative is to wipe out every Pakistani male who resists. Kill the men and sterilize the boys. And flatten every Muslim holy side or madrassa in the process. It's a temporary solution, but is good for a few generations. It is much how the Ottomans stabilized their restive Arabs for 500 years. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-05-24 10:17 |
| #5 China, you didn't say pretty please. |
| Posted by: Louisiana Steve 2011-05-24 09:25 |
| #4 You respect us, and we'll respect you.(In the morning) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-05-24 08:09 |
| #3 Please respect our billions of dollars. |
| Posted by: Griting Smith6978 2011-05-24 01:05 |
| #2 The crux for the US-CHINA will be iff a war does break out between Pakistan + India. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-24 00:44 |
| #1 As Homer Simspon would say, "HHHMMMMM ... Multifarious". So-o-o IIUC, Beijing broadly wants to protect the Pakistan that trained or helped train UIGHUR MILITANTS = SEPARATISTS, espec given ... * DAWN.COM > ACCOUNTS OF [multiple] MILITANT TRAINING CAMPS NEAR BIN LADEN, as SSSSHHHHHHH covertly NOT well-known to the WE-DIDN'T-KNOW-OSAMA-WAS-IN-ABBOTTABAD-MILITARY-REGION PAK ARMY. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TALIBAN DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO [capturing][Pakis] NUKES? * DRUDGEREPORT > TALIBAN RAID [Mehran NavBase] TRIGGERS PAKISTAN SHOCKWAVE OVER NUKES. * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM [old]> EX-UK ARMY CHIEF [Gen. Richard Dannatt] CONFIRMS AFGHAN WAR IS TO PREVENT THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MUSLIM/ISLAMIC KHILIFAH, i.e. the 14th-15th Century-era CALIPHATE as stretching from SOUTH ASIA, aka AFPAK where US-NATO are + India?, to the Middle East + North Africa, aka post-Mubarak Jasmine-affected Muslim States. Which SSSSSHHHHHH also included large ares of CHINA. O-K-E-Y-Y-Y ....D-O-K-E-Y-Y-Y. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-24 00:41 |