Posted on 03/10/2014 6:37:08 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ukraine crisis: Chinese president Xi Jinping urges US to show restraint
Beijing leader tells Obama and Merkel that they must pursue a political solution to ‘extremely complex’ situation
Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine and for all parties to exercise calm and restraint, during separate telephone calls with US president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel.
“The situation in Ukraine is extremely complex, and what is most urgent is for all sides to remain calm and exercise restraint to avoid an escalation in tensions,” China’s foreign ministry on Monday cited Xi as telling Obama.
“Political and diplomatic routes must be used to resolve the crisis,” Xi added.
China has an “open attitude” towards any suggestions or proposals which can ameliorate the situation, and is willing to remain in touch with all parties including the United States, he said
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The thing that makes me nervous in all this is that both parties are not good at what they don’t like. Republicans don’t do social programs very well and democrats don’t do war very well. Obama’s incompetence could get us in a heap o’ trouble.
President Eleven?
Republicans DO do social programs well when they eliminate them.
In 20 years it will be: Chinese president orders US to show restraint.
When has that ever happened?
Right. No further need for QE to shore up the market indefinitely, though.
I’ve seen this in the 3 stooges. Curly hasn’t the stomach for a fight, but has to save face, so he backs into Larry pretending larry is holding him back.
Pei Ping
Republicans DO do social programs well when they eliminate them.
If Obama showed any more “restraint” he’d be sending aid directly to Putin!
Say, Xi...just wondering...but does that part about diplomatic solutions apply to your new bud, Vladimir.
Where’s the press release and news announcment from you to him to remove his military, which he has used to invade the Ukraine?
Should he be urged by China to show similar “restraint?”
Hmmm?
I thought not.
I thought about this for a few minutes and I concluded that Xi Jinping has a sense of humor.
I think China is in quite a pickle here. The do not want to set a president that a region of a sovereign country can simply say we want to be independent and we will hold an election to do it.
China would not last a decade under such conditions.
“Political and diplomatic routes must be used to resolve the crisis,” Xi added.
I am all in favor of diplomacy, in such situations as we have with Crimea, however, in such situations as we have with Crimea diplomacy cannot be the only tool we exercise, because it would be a grave error of fiction to deny that Putin has already a created a military threat and military dimension to the issue.
That has to be met with more than just diplomacy, it has to have costs, costs to Russia in order to make it possible for diplomacy to have a chance at returning the situation to the previous status quo in Crimea.
Otherwise, with zero costs to Russia, diplomacy will be so much jibber jabber and Russia will change the facts on the ground to irreversible facts that only worse, more grave and possible military responses can try to counter.
In such a situation as we have with Crimea so far, diplomacy can become simply an an excuse for not taking stronger actions when stronger actions are needed.
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