Posted on 02/03/2007 4:19:22 AM PST by LJTailor1
Despite almost universal world condemnation of the government of Khartoum in Sudan over the starvation and human rights abuses in the Darfur region of that nation, China continues to very publicly send the world the middle finger.
President Hu Jintao made his first visit to the Sudan Friday. Some had hoped that President Hu and China might speak out against what the U.S. has called the “genocide” in Darfur.
“I am confident this visit will facilitate a strengthening of the traditional friendship between China and Sudan and bring cooperation between the countries to a new level,” President Hu said in a statement upon his arrival. He also mentioned strengthening economic ties.
President Hu made no public remarks about Darfur.
Zhang Dong, China’s ambassador to Khartoum, told Xinhua news agency on Thursday that China “never interferes in Sudan’s internal affairs”.
Even thought the war in Sudan ended in 2005, the conflict in Darfur is estimated to have caused the deaths of some 200,000 people and made more than 2 million homeless.
Billions of dollars of Chinese investment, particularly in the oil sector, have provided crucial support to President Omar al-Bashir’s regime, enabling it to join the ranks of oil exporters and improve decaying infrastructure.
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We still own some of the old style submarines which shoot torpedos and sink ships; in theory at least, we could simply put two of those on patrol offshore of Sudan with orders to sink anything trying to load oil until the persecution of Christians in Darfur stops. That would not cost a single American life.
And the world will continue to do nothing while genocide continues. Par for the course for the impotent world leaders that think America is the problem.
Meanwhile, according to these morons, we have to pull out of Iraq leading to more genocide.
But we don't have to worry for long anyway, because kook scientists say we will all fry from global warming anyway....
When you have a society built on the slaughter of, perhaps, 30,000,000 followed by a Great Leap Foreward that killed many millions more and forced famine migrations of massive segments of the population, the Sudan and Darfur represent a stroll in the park.
Well, now, wouldn't any condemnation from Hu just make him a hypocrite? The Pol Pot calling the kettle black? Wouldn't want that, would we?/sarcasm
No thanks. Dafur isn't our problem. Let them cavourt with Chinese dictators. They're not worth the loss of a single US soldier.
Ha! How's that saying go? "You don't buy African leaders, you rent them."
I never hear anyone propose what they think we shoulod actually do about Darfur. I suppose they want to move all those people to Minneapolis.
then,China would send some police to arrest those pirates
China is a country without honor or morals.
Didn't Hillary mention something about Darfur in a speech this week?
The Russians also don't care about Dafur. Putin sells weapons to Sudan.
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