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  • CHINA: Focus - Energy-Hungry [neo-colonist] China courts Middle East

    06/23/2005 5:32:48 PM PDT · by Wiz · 10 replies · 382+ views
    AKI ^ | 2005 Jun 23
    Hong Kong, 23 June (AKI) - This week's Middle East tour by Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, is a rare visit by a top Beijing official to the region, signals China's growing diplomatic ambitions and its quest to secure oil supplies for its energy-hungry, rapidly expanding economy. It's a change of focus for Beijing; for decades, China's communist rulers, including Mao Tse-tung, focused their diplomatic attentions on Africa, where China promoted itself as a sort of guiding light for the Third World and a bulwark against the neo-colonialist tendencies of the West. China also sought to isolate its tiny rival,...
  • France Won't Apologize for Algeria [War] Deaths

    05/11/2005 7:39:19 PM PDT · by Wiz · 7 replies · 399+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2005 May 12 | Hassane Meftahi
    ALGIERS, Algeria - France called for improved ties with Algeria but refused to take responsibility Wednesday for the deaths of thousands of people in an uprising against the French occupiers 60 years ago. The violence apparently began during a celebration of the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, when demonstrators in the town of Setif unfurled an Algerian flag banned by the French. As police began confiscating the flags, the crowds turned on the French, killing about two dozen of them. The uprising spread and the response by French colonial troops grew increasingly harsh in the weeks...