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Subject: Double Standards, EU-NYT-China
sanman    12/9/2004 12:19:00 PM
Read this article: http://iht.com/articles/2004/12/09/news/nepal.html It bothers me that the holier-than-thou Europeans (and their Atlanticist cousins running the New York Times) are hollering loudly against Russia on usurpation of democracy in Ukraine, and yet they won't say one critical word to China over the blatant mayhem it's causing in Nepal with its backing of the brutal communist insurgents there. On the contrary, the EU is preparing to remove any arms sales restrictions to China. The NYT tries to put the elected Nepalese parliamentary govt on equal footing with anti-democratic communists being backed by China. I'd like to point out that the catalyst for the emergence of this insurgency has been China's alarm at the newly arrived US military in Afghanistan, which is on China's sensitive Western border. Because the Chinese are surprised and frightened about this, they have taken it upon themselves to start shoring up the strength on their Western borders by trying to knock over a neighboring govt in that region, to install a puppet govt and bring it under their sphere of influence. I am at pains to emphasize that the timing of this insurgency is no coincidence here. The linkage is clear: US Military Arrival in Afghanistan - Maost Chicom Insurgency in nearby Nepal. This is not paranoid imagination. This is realpolitik.
 
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Nanheyangrouchuan    RE:Double Standards, EU-NYT-China sanman   4/8/2005 1:30:30 PM
"and yet they won't say one critical word to China over the blatant mayhem it's causing in Nepal with its backing of the brutal communist insurgents there." It's called coporate greed.
 
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Texastillidie    RE:Double Standards, EU-NYT-China   11/16/2005 8:22:32 PM
You are correct concerning the hypocrisy, however, there are a couple of reasons for it. The NYT actually believes it can affect events in Russia through criticism. Russia is a member of NATO now, and we have operating agreements with them in the war on terrorism. I suspect that the NYT and other media don’t believe this about China. China goes their own way and pays little attention to criticism from anybody, especially US news agencies, who they regard as agents of the US govt. I suspect what you see as hypocrisy is just using ink where it will do some good, and not wasting it covering issues that they know they can’t affect. The Chinese insurgency was at work in Nepal long before our incursion in Afaganistanadana. They may have stepped it up a notch after our arrival, but the one did not cause the other. The Chinese are expansionist a$$holes. They take territory that will never show a return-on-investment just because they can. American media is socialist in its philosophical outlook. Most of them believe that the only reason communist governments have failed is because the “right” people were not in charge. They chide the leaders of foreign governments, believing this will make them more “humane”. They did this to the Chinese and Soviet governments during the cold war, and they still do it to Russia, because the same people are still in charge. I’m not making excuses for the American media, whom I regard as scum-of-the-earth, I just giving you some reason why strange stuff like this happens.
 
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DrCruel    The Maobadi   12/21/2005 9:43:03 PM
The Maobadi was active at least from the 1990s on, and formally started their guerrilla war in 1994 - well before the Taliban itself was active in Afghanistan, and certainly before the US moved to depose the Taliban after the WTC and Pentagon attacks. Their recent activity isn't a reaction to US moves in the region, so much as an exploitation of a British retreat from influence in South Asia and the PRC's traditional reaction to weakness - as view their attitude towards Tibet, compared to their subsequent retreat from action against Vietnam after a bad blooding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Nepal_%28Maoist%29 I really hate it when Leftists try to take advantage to American ignorance to thwart American policies. These little "active measures" programs of theirs really get on my nerves.
 
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