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"Zizek!" |
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18 Aug 2006 10:39:13 AM |
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Chinese Tells US to 'Shut up' |
Chinese Diplomat Tells US to 'Shut up' ---
China's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, throwing diplomatic
language to the wind, has told the United States in no uncertain terms to
"shut up and keep quiet" on the subject of Beijing's growing military
spending.
Interviewed for a BBC radio programme on the topic Thursday, Sha Zukang also
said China would "do the business" and sacrifice its own people's lives if
any nation supported a declaration of independence by Taiwan.
Responding to jitters within the Bush administration about Beijing's
spiraling military budget, Sha said the United States itself accounts for
half of the entire world's military spending.
"The China population is six times or five times that of the United States,"
he said. "Why blame China?... It's better for the US to shut up and keep
quiet. It's much, much better."
His voice rising, Sha continued: "It's the US's sovereign right to do
whatever they deem good for them -- but don't tell us what is good for
China. Thank you very much!"
Sha was equally explicit on Taiwan declaring independence with US backing --
a prospect that the BBC programme, by former Beijing correspondent Carrie
Gracie, called the motivating factor behind Chinese military spending.
"The moment Taiwan declares independence, supported by whoever, China will
have no choice," he said.
"We will do the business through whatever means available to my government.
Nobody should have any illusions on that. We will do the business at any
cost."
He added: "It's not a matter of how big Taiwan is, but for China, one inch
of the territory is more valuable than the life of our people. We will never
concede on that."
China's rising military spending, which has grown by double digits for much
of the last 15 years, has caused concern in the United States and amongst
China's neighbors in Asia.
In March the National People's Congress (parliament), largely a rubber-stamp
for decisions taken at the top level of the Chinese Communist Party,
approved a 14.7-percent increase in military spending to 35 billion dollars
(27 billion euros) this year.
Although this is paltry compared to the 419 billion dollar (325 billion
euro) US defense budget in 2006, the Pentagon last year estimated that
China's defense spending was two to three times the publicly announced
figure.
In a speech in Beijing in July, Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan said
modernization of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) remained a priority, the
China News Service reported.
"The entire military must eye the historic destiny of China's military in
the new century and new era and push forward the main line of a
Chinese-style revolution in military affairs," he was quoted as saying.
He added: "We must unswervingly fulfill our sacred duty to defend state
sovereignty, territorial integrity and security and never tolerate Taiwan
independence and never permit Taiwan independence forces under any name or
under any circumstances or form to split Taiwan from the motherland."
Copyright © 2006 AFP
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Bush has sold the USA to China and now we are to be enslaved.
Hope ya like Mah Jong and dog soup.
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| User: "morticide" |
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| Title: Re: Chinese Tells US to 'Shut up' |
18 Aug 2006 10:50:38 AM |
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Zizek! wrote:
Chinese Diplomat Tells US to 'Shut up' ---
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Bush has sold the USA to China...
The sell-out started with Nixon and accelerated under Slick Willie,
though Junior certainly didn't try to reverse the course.
...and now we are to be enslaved.
And we are not now? And over the past 20 years?
Hope ya like Mah Jong and dog soup.
Mah Jongg is quite entertaining IMO. Not sure about dog soup, but
fried dog in Korea isn't bad if prepared properly (I just wouldn't
trust any fast-food version or a Walmart special).
I'd burn all my Chinese-made possessions, but then I'd be arrested for
indecent exposure.
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