Posted on 10/27/2020 11:22:44 PM PDT by caww
“We are firmly opposed to the United States taking the opportunity of the State Secretary’s visit to sow and interfere in China-Sri Lanka relations, and to coerce and bully Sri Lanka,” China’s embassy in Colombo said.
The top US diplomat for South Asia, Dean Thompson, said at the start of Pompeo’s four-nation tour of Indian Ocean nations — India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia — that he will ask Colombo to review options offered by Washington.
The US visit comes less than three weeks after Yang Jiechi, a Chinese Community Party politburo member, pledged more economic help to Sri Lanka during a visit.
Colombo has leaned heavily on China for loans and diplomatic support to fight off allegations of human rights violations, particularly in the final months of a brutal decades-long civil war.
Washington has insisted on credible investigations into charges that Sri Lankan troops killed at least 40,000 civilians while crushing Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the island’s top defence official and his brother Mahinda was president when the final onslaught was carried out. Mahinda is now prime minister.
Pompeo is expected to raise rights issues when he meets the Rajapaksas Wednesday in Colombo which is under a partial lockdown because of a surge in coronavirus infections.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindependent.sg ...
China blast = good for US
Seems like time is flying recently.
:)
Yeah right, China picked the characterization: “bully”. I’ll believe it when I hear it.
China blasts ‘bully’ US...
So does that make China Ralph Kramden and the US Harvey?
Funny episode :)
The Chinese remind me of the minority neighborhoods complaining left and right.
I thought they were so tough.
They both cry like little girls
China knows Pompeo is there to warn Sri Lanka about China and possibly offer alternative proposals. And there’s not one damn thing China can do about it.
26 Oct updated 27 Oct: Daily Mail: China is close to ‘world domination’ and Europe must wake up to the danger, (former) German spy chief says
Gerhard Schindler said China’s rulers were ‘very cleverly’ spreading influence
He said Germany should shut Chinese firm Huawei out of its 5G mobile network
Schindler also warned of a ‘reservoir’ of Muslims vulnerable to ‘radicalisation’ after Angela Merkel opened Germany’s doors to refugees in 2015
By TIM STICKINGS
Schindler called on Germany to strip out Huawei from its 5G mobile network in order to make the country ‘less dependent’ on Beijing, echoing the US government’s fears that Huawei could be used to spy for China’s Communist Party...
Speaking to The (UK) Times, Schindler also argued that Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s doors to refugees in 2015 had left the country with a ‘large reservoir’ of Muslim men who could be vulnerable to ‘radicalisation, recruitment and violence’...
Schindler, who led Germany’s intelligence service from 2011 to 2016, said Huawei could create so-called back doors in its 5G systems and ‘we would have no idea what they were building’...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8879791/China-close-world-domination-Europe-wake-danger-German-spy-chief-says.html
China calling the US a bully when Pompeo is visiting Sri Lanka?? The Chinese govt has no sense of how hypocritical it is, when the CHinese have reduced Sri Lanka to debt slavery - building a port that no-one uses, on the back of a hefty loan from China. So what does China ask as Sri Lanka couldn’t pay it back? China says, give us the land....
Next China will be stomping it’s feet, or possibly rolling
on the floor screaming.
It’s already exhausted other forms of misbehavior any child
of three would generally exhibit.
Maybe it’s in need of having it’s diapers changed.
To quote China, Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, and oh yes
that's mine too.
Grow up China. You're old enough to know better.
I had to look up where Sri Lanka is. Reminds me of something Mark Twain said, “War is God’s way of teaching geography to Americans.”
3030? Oct 27, 3030?
Late night error.......2020 - 3030
I feel better now. I thought I slept through the last millennium.
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