Posted on 04/26/2007 9:40:31 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
China said on Thursday it was evaluating the safety of its workers abroad after an attack in Ethiopia that killed nine of its citizens but would continue encouraging Chinese businesses to operate in Africa.
Ethiopian officials have said gunmen belonging to a rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), on Tuesday killed 65 Ethiopians and the Chinese at an oilfield about 100 km (60 miles) south of the regional capital Jijiga.
China has condemned the killings, which underscored the risks of Beijing's eager push for investment and natural resources in Africa, sometimes in risky areas where Western multinationals fear to go.
On Thursday, an official spokesman said the attack had prompted a broader review. "In response to these recent incidents concerning the safety of Chinese personnel, the relevant departments are carrying out an assessment of safety abroad," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a news conference.
Liu did not give any details of the review or specify what countries or regions it would cover. The exercise would "help Chinese businesses smoothly develop economic and trade cooperation abroad and ensure the safety of Chinese personnel," he said.
Ethiopian troops searched on Wednesday for seven Chinese and Ethiopian workers kidnapped in the attack, and the bodies of the dead Chinese were flown to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
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China has been playing The West and the Islamic World against each other, hoping one falls and the other is too spent in achieving victory so that China can be the dominant power.
They underestimated Islam’s barbarism.
China attempting to project power is a bad thing IMO.
“China said on Thursday it was evaluating the safety of its workers abroad..”
That’s laudable. However, perhaps China could also spend some time thinking on how it treats its broads born in China, i.e., don’t kill them.
They have been doing a pretty good job at it.
Islam is a picky group. After all the atrocities that China and Russia has done to it’s Muslim populations, Islam appears to be united against US, not China and Russia. There is no global jihad to go and fight China.
It would be nice if China did something about the safety of its coal miners, thousands of whom die every year. I guess as long as the deaths are domestic, and don’t attract foreign attention, the Chinese are OK with it.
There's not much to do in China. If the Chinese bother with a trial, the procedure is a speedy forced confession, conviction and appeal, followed by execution hours later (set up in conjunction with an involuntary organ sale schedule). You can't fight a system like that within China. In addition, if terrorists can't even attack Americans systematically all over world, where they are present as businesspeople, students and tourists, how are they going to find the Chinese, most of whom are too poor to travel abroad?
Africa will be a spot that they will attack China.
My point, though, after all the deaths from China and Russia on the Muslim populace, there is no global Jihad to attack them. Thats all.
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Well said and very very true.
I've read that there are 19 deaths daily from mining in China.
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