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 Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur (Re: Mohamed Omer)
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The power of protest
Independent.co.uk
The Chinese foreign ministry argued that "it is understandable if some people do not understand the Chinese government policy on Darfur", and went on to urge America to stop its "Cold War thinking", accusing some of its detractors of harbouring "ulterior motives"
But the problem is not that we do not understand the Chinese policy on Darfur, it is that we understand it all too well. China buys some 60 per cent of the African nation's oil and sells arms to the regime with no questions asked. The weapons have been used to help suppress the inhabitants of the Darfur region, where 200,000 people have died and a further two million have been forced from their homes in the past five years. Turning a blind eye to ethnic cleansing would be one thing. But China goes further, and uses its influence in the United Nations Security Council to protect its Sudanese client. China has helped to water down resolution 1769, which calls for the deployment of a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force to protect the inhabitants of Darfur
It has been suggested that pressurising the Chinese government in this manner is unlikely to be productive. If China treats its own inhabitants so badly, goes the argument, is it really likely to yield to foreign pressure for the sake of the welfare of Africans? But, on the contrary, this is a perfect time to demand a change from Beijing. These Olympics are designed to be China's international "coming out" ceremony. China does not need economic favours from the international community. It is growing at such a rate that it is on course to become the world's largest economy by the middle of the century. But what China wants is the esteem of the wider world. If this respect is seen to be withheld, it is not naïve to imagine that China will modify its behaviour. All of this makes the run-up to these Olympics a unique window in which to put pressure on Beijing over Darfur
The Chinese embassy in Washington claims it is "irresponsible and unfair" to link the Olympics to foreign policy issues. No one disputes that the Olympics are – at heart – about sporting competition. But in fact the irresponsible course of action in this instance would have been to fail to link the games to China's unsavoury relationship with Khartoum
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| A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 04:51 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 05:06 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 05:12 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 05:21 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 05:26 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 05:44 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 07:07 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 07:28 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 07:46 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 07:52 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 08:02 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 08:07 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 08:11 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 10:37 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-14-08, 10:56 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-15-08, 03:48 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-15-08, 04:51 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-15-08, 06:01 PM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-16-08, 02:50 AM |
| Re: A letter from the world's Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur | Mohamed Omer | 02-16-08, 02:03 PM |
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