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China spreads its peacekeepers
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| 2/4/09
| By Bates Gill and Chin-Hao Huang
Posted on 02/03/2009 3:29:24 PM PST by Flavius
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has increased its participation in a broadening array of multilateral security arrangements in recent years.
One of the most high-profile aspects of this trend is the dramatic expansion in Chinese peacekeeping deployments (of civilian police, military observers, engineering battalions, and medical units) to United Nations operations: since 2000, when China deployed fewer than 100 peacekeepers, there has been a remarkable 20-fold increase in its contributions.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
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Oh my Lord, Chinese peacekeepers going into Africa almost like World war has been fought over resources in the old Censored Continent.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:29:24 PM PST
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:30:23 PM PST
by
dr_who
To: Flavius
Hey, China is our MFN (names changed to protect the guilty) bud these days. No problem. We’re giving them trillions in business to finance all this, while cutting our military and destroying our nukes. No big deal.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:33:18 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
Thats right its all good its great fun awesome i feel culturally enriched too.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:37:12 PM PST
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:37:48 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
I think China still has Debtor’s prisons. Maybe the PRC army is just getting a bit of practice collecting in preperation to collect the Debt the Fools on the Hill have run up?
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:42:04 PM PST
by
jedi150
To: DoughtyOne
yes spiritually enlighten
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:42:39 PM PST
by
Flavius
To: jedi150
The topic is certainly something I’m not really happy about.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:45:27 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:45:58 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: DoughtyOne
Only a Commie would celebrate MFN with Communist China
American wealth being used to spread Communism....real brillant.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:11:39 PM PST
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(The UnHoly Grail of Anti-Americanism: Illegal Aliens, Globalism, Free Trade, WTO, UN,)
To: UCFRoadWarrior
Couldn’t agree more, if my sarcasm wasn’t evident to you. (either way actually)
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:14:14 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(D1: Home of the golden tag line: FBI cuts off CAIR for contact with Hamas, Obama wants to talk to.)
To: Flavius
How remarkable is the increase from 100 to 2,000 (twenty fold) for the country with the largest population on Earth.
They probably have that many new soldiers enrolled in their army every minute.
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posted on
02/03/2009 5:04:03 PM PST
by
wildbill
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