Posted on 05/10/2007 1:58:16 PM PDT by BGHater
Although there never was an axis of evil, there are murderous dictatorships in the world today that have one thing in common: support from the People's Republic of China. In Sudan, Burma, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe, China has become an enabler of evil.
Although Beijing's bosses rule in the name of communism, their motives for backing tyrants have nothing to do with the doctrines of Mao Zedong. Their reasons for helping the genocidal regime in Sudan avoid meaningful United Nations Security Council sanctions, or for voting against a Council resolution to censure the military junta in Burma, are more capitalist than communist. China's foreign policy is not driven by any quaint notions of solidarity with the wretched of the earth.
Being the world's fastest-growing consumer of energy and having almost no oil of its own, China wants to ensure its access to oil and protect its large investments in foreign oil fields and oil-producing consortiums. So China has partnered with governments that kill their own people, using its state-owned companies to acquire interests in oil or natural gas reserves around the world.
It is known that the China National Petroleum Company owns the largest slice of Sudan's two major oil consortiums and buys more than half of Sudan's oil exports. It is less well known that after Uzbekistan's despot Islam Karimov massacred protesters in the town of Andijan in 2005, China's foreign ministry said it staunchly supports Uzbekistan's "striking at the three forces, which are terrorism, splittism, and extremism."
This was China's way of equating Karimov's repression with Beijing's campaigns against autonomy for Tibet, independence for Taiwan, and political activism by Muslim Uighurs in western China. Shortly afterward, Karimov was received for a state visit in Beijing, where he signed a $600 million joint venture to develop oil fields in Uzbekistan.
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China is not our friend. Who knew. Not to worry, we’ll continue to wage war and everything else in a PC manner. And get our you know what kicked.
“Although there never was an axis of evil..” That’s where I stopped reading. What snarky, leftist bullsh*t!! Yeah, Saddam’s Iraq, Iran and the DPRK (North Korea)would never coordinate with each other...good thing we got that settled.
It's just hard to keep reading after this. But it is an editorial. And it tells me something many of us already knew, China, at least the Chi-coms, are not are friends, and they are in the business of ensuring their dictatorship continues on indefinitely, like so much of Chinese culture and history has endured, they won't easily give up their hold on a billion plus people with all the power and money that entails. Someone at the leftie Globe gets it. At least until we - God forbid - have another Dem as President.
“.... more capitalist than communist....”
Don’t call what the Chinese do “capitalism” in any form. It is economic predation, and has little to do with accumulating capital to increase and expand capability to manufacture, distribute and sell goods and services in an open competition.
What the Chinese do is just ruthless, more geared to eliminating rivals than in encouraging competitive busness practices of any kind. Call it piracy, and you give it a more kindly name.
Another thing, besides buying at Wally world that arms the ChiCom war machine, it may seem far fetched, but a reasonable observation given what I have seen.
Chinese buffets funding Chicom war machine... they are so similar in their layout, menu and they don’t know much more or have much made to order like the old chinese restauruants we used to see, and they cooked stuff to individual tastes, now no matter where u go, its all the same... Something seem wrong here, or is it just me?
Another thing, besides buying at Wally world that arms the ChiCom war machine, it may seem far fetched, but a reasonable observation given what I have seen.
Chinese buffets funding Chicom war machine... they are so similar in their layout, menu and they don’t know much more or have much made to order like the old chinese restauruants we used to see, and they cooked stuff to individual tastes, now no matter where u go, its all the same... Something seem wrong here, or is it just me?
At first glance, I thought, no, doesn't seem likely. But it does make me wonder. We all hear about how some immigrants (Mexico, China, some others) 'owe' their sponsors debts related to getting them settled here. And the new buffets do seem a bit cookie cutter. I hope not. Of course, the mom and pop places are always the best. But you bring up aa interesting point, after watching many of their people set up shop here and prosper, could it be that the homeland wants a piece of the action? I don't know but I have noticed a switch from little restaurants to big buffet places even in my rural area.
Not just variations, so many of them are the same.. Same selections, same layout for the most part...
And as you mention, I do miss the 'special attention' by the staff with made to order items (no msg, no onions, extra garlic for me) and the seasonal items they don't have on the menu but offer to their regular customers, like me, like the steamed sweet buns (no dim sum locally, few places have many noodle dishes) or the tea-steamed eggs... Not that they have to rush to pamper me, but they saw me often (I worked 2 doors down) and got to know me and what I liked and were happy to try to make it, and not just me, but many 'regulars'.
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