Posted on 03/07/2003 3:32:57 AM PST by areafiftyone
BEIJING --
China's foreign minister, hurrying to the United Nations on Friday for a crucial Security Council meeting, said his government's position against military action in Iraq is unchanged -- and that "the opposition to war is prevailing."
Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan also called on Iraq not only to cooperate, but to do so more willingly.
"The majority of countries in the world stand for a political solution, and the opposition to war is prevailing," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Tang as saying.
It said Tang made the comments to Chinese reporters upon arrival in New York for a U.N. Security Council meeting Friday. It was Tang's third trip to New York in four weeks for Security Council meetings; last time, he spoke at length to the council, prescribing caution and saying inspections should go on.
Tang also said the international community should "urge Iraq for substantive cooperation in a more proactive manner."
Tang also reiterated support for a statement issued this week by France, Russia and Germany to block passage of any U.N. resolution authorizing force against Baghdad.
But, as in a news conference in Beijing on Thursday, Tang stopped short of saying that China itself would actively block that resolution.
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They have been doing things. They told N. Korea to use their jet fighters to provoke the situation. It's a page right out of China's book. We know what happened to our surveillamce plane when a poor pilot messed up.
They also did this to Taiwanese planes. The Chinese would fly provocatively and lock on to Taiwanese aircraft.
Rest assured, China is doing a lot.
All of this peace activist BS from Beijing (from the people who want to invade or shoot 400 missiles at Taiwan) is more along the lines of revenge than anything.
They are being contrary because the US is taking action against China on several fronts.
Not to mention China thinks they will be next on the list.
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