China is a threat to global good
With a trail of blood from volatile Africa, Myanmar to Sri Lanka, China is a threat to global good and reticent about gross human rights violations to preserve its own commercial interests. US have also been accused of partying with the despots
AS THE world watches without being able to bring about a ceasefire, a humanitarian crisis is underway in Sri Lanka with nearly 170,000 civilians displaced and 50,000 trapped in the war zone.
But what happened so suddenly that the Sri Lankan armed forces finally managed to decimate the formidable LTTE? It was China once again. Having supported despots with blood on their hands in Africa and Myanmar for the sake of resources to feed a surging Chinese economy, Sri Lanka was a natural choice to complete the string of pearls in the Indian Ocean. Having set about building and ramping up ports in Burma, Bangladesh and Pakistan, which would in be used for docking and refueling of its navy, China is now building a $1 billion port in the fishing village of Hambantota in Sri Lanka’s north east, very close to the fighting zone. It would also double up as the Chinese Navy’s stop-over point during patrols to guard against piracy of oil imports from the Middle East and establish a base in the Indian Ocean all along the arc. No wonder the Sri Lankan armed forces are fighting perhaps their last battle to crush the LTTE for ever with an urgency never seen before. Shunned by governments the world over including India when Sri Lanka sought arms for the civil war, China chipped in during the last two decades with arms supplies. Chinese arms supplies increased further when the US suspended all military aid to Sri Lanka citing gross human rights violations. Chinese aid to Sri Lanka jumped to $1billion last year leaving other nations far behind. Like wise, China beefed up the Myanmar armed forces and stood with them when they were accused of human rights violations last year when monks and civilians rose in protest against rampant corruption, price rise and food shortage. Pakistan can act in self denial of not harboring terrorists and fuel terror acts in neighboring countries on the strength of Chinese military aid and support, while the US and western powers resign themselves to the reality and cannot do much about it. According to Jane’s Defense Weekly, Sri Lanka shopped for $37.6 million worth of arms and supplies for its army and navy. China gave six F7 fighter jets for free in 2007 as per reports of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. According to media reports, the bulk of arm shipments fro China was handled by Lanka Logistics and Technologies, where the Defense Secretary who is the Sri Lankan president’s brother, has a major stake. And the arms went into killing 75 civilians in a makeshift hospital by the Sri Lankan armed forces, which lay very close to the battle zone. It was the only one available for the trapped civilians. UN reports peg civilian casualties at 6500 since January this year as the Sri Lankan government vehemently denies and keeps the war zone out of bounds for journalists and aid workers. Sri Lanka is acting with the same nonchalance to global criticism and pressure as Myanmar’s armed forces did last year on the strength of a counter weight like China. Calls for evacuating the civilians have fallen on deaf years. China’s desperate need for Hambantota had been cautioned by Pentagon’s Air Staff personnel Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher J. Pehrsonin a 2006 paper and by the US Joint Forces Command last November. With a trail of blood from volatile Africa, Myanmar to Sri Lanka, China is a threat to global good and reticent about gross human rights violations and human catastrophes to preserve its own commercial interests. US have also been accused of partying with despots and affecting civilian casualties, but democracy allows a groundswell of dissent as was evident in the last presidential elections. China has stifled a moral counterweight, which makes it more dangerous.
.Natteri, Why don't you live in China? People like you misuse democracy, that is called pathological lair and Hippocratic .
.China has not sent PLA to fish in troubled waters of Sri Lanka. New Delhi has been openly supporting the genocide, and had its military machine mauled and kicked out of Lanka. Even last year, Indian logistics and radar engineeres were discovered in a Lankan camp that got overrun. China may not be blemishless but has an excellent foreign relation record that should put Indians to shame. The bloated, dysfunctional IFS officialdom living in a Nehru era time warp is only interested in enjoying good life at the expense of poor people needs a drastic purge. China enjoys cordial relations with every neighbour bar India and has mended even with Japan, once its inhuman oppressor. In contrast, India is reputed for its nasty big brotherly image and is detested by every neighbour except perhaps Bhutan. (Who knows New Delhi may one day gobble it up, just as in Sikkim!). All of them cannot be evil. Only Indians - not even Russia, its only (erstwhile) buddy - like to believe that China is a threat to global good. We need to demolish shibboleths, stop worshipping hypocritical crooks as intellectuals and leaders and be ruchtless towards corruption and indiscipline indulged by the so called intellegentsia to start inch towards China's status.
Natteri, yu are talking nonsense, Tiger have created own problems as usual, dont blame Pandit Nehru, it is shameless people like you who talk of past , you are one of the crooks, am I right?
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The recent G8 summit did not achieve what Angela Merkel may have hoped for - a new treaty with binding CO2 emissions cuts for the world��s major polluters - USA, China, and India. While both India and China were under considerable pressure to accept such targets, they resisted, promising only to ��cooperate��.
India��s position on climate change is simple:
1. 1. Climate change has been caused by the developed world, which must bear the costs of abatement and mitigation.
2. 2. India is not a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, and
3. 3. It will not accept binding emission cuts, without compensation, as that would conflict with the overarching goals of economic growth.
This position may be good for international negotiations. But as a policy, it is ethically indefensible, logically and economically inconsistent, and worse - a wasted opportunity.It is time the Indian government moved beyond posturing, and did something.
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