China sends riot police to Haiti

China Daily ^ | October 16, 2004

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Anyone else think the CIA is gonna send in people undercover and try to stir stuff up with the people of Haiti against these Chinese troops?

I dont think the guys in DC are digging the idea of the UN using the Red Army to patrol the world. First Haiti, next, some South American country......then, god only knows

[Kurt_D]

Naw... I am not too much of a Conspiracy Person. Anyway... it's not a big deal if a bunch of Chinamen try to pacify the wild Haitians. It seems more like an PR effort to me.

[Wristpin]

Are they bringing tanks?

[Hitlerys uterus]

Let's wait and see what happens after 15 or 20 of these communist "peacekeepers" get necklessed or hacked apart with machetees.

[Ronin]

Haiti's a lost cause. Nothing will ever civilize that place. If the Chinese want to pour a few bodies down that rat hole, I guess we might as well encourage them.

However, I am a bit uncomfortable about Chinese in uniform in this hemisphere. Thin edge of the wedge, etc.

[Caipirabob]

I dont think the guys in DC are digging the idea of the UN using the Red Army to patrol the world. First Haiti, next, some South American country......then, god only knows

You may have singled out the one reason the US doesn't just toss them into the sea.

I'd still do it.

[The Loan Arranger]

It may soon read:
Chinese peacekeepers wave goodbye as they leave Beijing for the United States on January 22nd, 2005, (at the invitation of the newly-installed Kerry administration) on a six-month UN mission to quell rioting right-wing reactionaries who object to the new president's declarations of martial law and immediate gun confiscation. They will join another 300,000-member team which left one month ago. [Xinhua]

[Stateline]

Chinese peacekeepers are followed by Chinese nuclear subs....

[tutstar]

Surely this is a joke.

[Begin]

I can't argue with experience.

[CDHart]

"However, I am a bit uncomfortable about Chinese in uniform in this hemisphere. Thin edge of the wedge, etc."

Me, too. I don't like it at all. Bad precedent.

Carolyn

[csvset]

ping

[The Duke]

"China?" - How many divisions do they have?

Oh...er...well...

[Roccus]

I'm working mainly from memory here so correct me if I'm wrong. Don't the Chinese have a large interest in the Panama Canal?

[hershey]

China's already in control of the Panama Canal and God only knows what else in South and Central America.

[hershey]

China as good as owns the canal and surrounding lands.

[Don Corleone]

Thank You Jimmy Carter for letting them into Panama and voiding the Monroe Doctrine!

[maui_hawaii]

As far as I know the US has been encouraging China to take part a lot more in UN peacekeeping missions. The Chinese resisted for years.

[nightdriver]

It seems that the effin' Chineeeeeeze will jump at any chance to worm their way into the western hemisphere. We're told that they are already in the Bahamas and they control both ends of the Panama Canal. Good places for setting up their missle bases.

Anyone who is comfortable about that is either naive or stupid or an out-and-out subversive.