Posted on 02/05/2004 10:30:30 AM PST by knighthawk
Beijing, 5 February: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue reiterated that China has decided to forgive debts from Iraq here Thursday [5 February] at the regular press conference.
The size of the debts to be forgiven is now being calculated and studied, Zhang added.
As a developing country, China fully understands difficulties of the reconstruction and the humanitarian situation in Iraq, she explained, expressing her hope that the Iraqi people can quickly step on the road of stable and peaceful development.
She stressed China attaches importance to the reconstruction in Iraq and expected the international community to strengthen cooperation in this regard.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China considers reducing the debts owed to it by Iraq out of humanitarian concern during his meeting with James Baker, special envoy to the US president last December.
You have tou go to silly extremes to try and simply dismiss or belittle observations I make.
It is fine for China to forgive the debt. Why is there debt to China is another question. What were they buying from China?
The point was made China gains influence. Is that good?
No.
One takes the good with the bad.
It is interesting to see your consistent support for the communist regime in China.
Is it good for the Chinese communists to gain more influence?
What?!?! Either explain or apologize.
What is China's relations with these Middle east regimes and terrorist organizations?
Take Iran for one example. That regime is the largest granddaddy of all terrorist sponsoring regimes and spearheaded the modern Islamicist movement.
The communist regime in China has close tie to the Iranian Islamicist regime. Rather than being concerned that they are supporting Xinjiang rebels, the communist regime has been overly freindly with the Iranian regime. They have cooperated in terms of weapons development and nuclear development.
Shortly after Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech the Communist Pary General Secretary Jiang Zemin held a summit metting in Iran pledging further cooperation and alliance.
This is but one example. Your analysis is being presented by some but there is no actual basis for it given the closeness of the Chinese regime with terrorist sponsoring states.
Rebiya Kadeer is a business women who was successful in Xinjiang, even to the extent that she was profiled in the Wall Street Journal and held up as an example by a success story by the communist regime.
Yet she was arrested and is in prison for sending her husband information to use in senate tetimony here in the US. She and her crime had nothing to do with Islamic extremism or fundamentalism.
The Chinese communist regime jails and opposes those who are simply against one party rule or for democracy or free speech or free religion. Kadeer is an example. Most of the Xinjiang opposition has been along these lines.
Uighurs have traditionally been similar to Turkey in outlook and attitude. Their country, before the communist's took it over, was called East Turkestan.
Certainly some people from Xinjiang are more extremist (eg there is one group that called themselves Uighur Hamas). And I'm sure some even were with al Qaeda in Afghanistan. But those elements would not be representative of the long opposition to Chinese communist rule.
As far as our comrade Lake, note the descrepencies in what he posted and what he referenced.
500 in Guantanamo from Xinjiang vs "We know that some Uighors have been found fighting with al-Qaida in Afghanistan. We are aware of some reports of reports that some Uighors who were trained by al-Qaida have returned to China".
As far as relations between China and Afghanistan pre-911 the communist regime had much more interaction and cooperation with the Taliban than any Uigur from Xinjiang.
I don't see a discrepency. He's quoting a government official from a press conference who is saying he's seen reports of some Uighors fighting with al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan, and some trained by al-Qaeda returning to China, in addition to the 500 or so detainees that may be held in Gitmo.
As far as relations between China and Afghanistan pre-911 the communist regime had much more interaction and cooperation with the Taliban than any Uigur from Xinjiang.
That may or may not be true, but it doesn't have any bearing on activities going on within China's borders amongst the various ethnic groups and the government.
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