Re: Crisis in Egypt!
Dolcevita and Mr T, you both need to back off and cool down
I would say though that to equate disapproval of potential chaos with active approval of Mubarak is a mistake. China dislikes chaotic situations period and in keeping with its non-interference policy will recognise and deal with the countries legitimate government. If the Government is going to change then China wants it done in an orderly, stable and legitimate way, so it has no doubt about the legitimacy of that new government. Conversely, where there is chaos and a disorderly transfer, there is greater scope for a non legitimate government to be installed. This is real dilemma for the PRC as it risks breaching its non-interference policy as recognising a non-legitimate government could easily be taken as interference and damage its standing with if a subsequent legitimate government, should it become installed.
China's policy of non interference is increasingly. viewed as a "copout" by many. Thats's understandly so in the light of her in not restraining Omar Al Bashir againg'st the South Sudanese before the practice of cultural genocide was well implented with the use of Chinese supplied weapons.
It going to be interesting to see what sort of relationship China is able to form with the new country of South Sudan.
I find Chinese news reports on the Egyptian saga , greatly underwhelming. Its is refraining from reporting on the core issue of the problem which is the desire of the people to be free of an opressive authorian rule, and the desire for a democratically elected governenment, but I suppose that can hardly be surprising.
I should imagine they are worried these events may be repeated in Pakistan and carried on through to Central Asia
Some time in the future and closer to home the oppressed in the "Stans"could China use as a whipping boy in an attempt to throw off their despotic governments . Nationalism could be one of many rallying calls with the deals China has struck with these despotic governments . As an example, all so slowly small disputed border areas from Kazakhstan a few years ago and more recently Tajikistan, Kyrgystan have been added to China at the expense of these little states. Land leasing adjacent productive land to the Chinese by authoritative governments against the wishes of its people could provide the seeds of discord decades later as they view it as territorial; expansion through stealth. especially if China was at a later date , to repeat these demands.
"New guestworkers are coming to the cotton and rice fields of southern Tajikistan, and they are already sowing seeds of discontent. Locals are outraged at the prospect of Chinese farmers arriving to work Tajik land, following Dushanbe's decision last week to lease out 2,000 hectares of land to the Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China.
That deal has added to simmering anger over the Tajik parliament decision just a week earlier to cede some 1,100 square kilometers of Tajik land (about 1% of the county's total land area) to China.
Many Tajiks, including Bakhtiyor, a young man interviewed by RFE/RL's Tajik Service on the streets of Dushanbe who gave only his first name, reacted sharply to the decision.
"Why do they give land to China? There are no Tajiks [interested in it]? They do not give land to Tajiks. People live in desperate conditions... They should give land to our poor people," he said. ..................
