"Obama calls for more dialogue with Beijing; Avoiding conflict is paramount, president says" by Foster Klug, Associated Press | March 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - As tension rose over a US-China sea dispute, President Obama met China's top diplomat yesterday and stressed the need for more frequent and intense communications to avoid military confrontations that could upset a relationship the US considers crucial to solving global crises.
Also see: The China Syndrome
The United States is not giving in to China's demand that it cease naval surveillance in the disputed South China Sea. But Obama told Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi of China during an Oval Office meeting that it is crucial to raise the level of US-Chinese military-to-military talks "in order to avoid future incidents," the White House said.
Yeah, it is OKAY if WE SPY ON YOU, but MAY the HEAVENS HELP YOU if YOU SPY on US (unless you are ISRAEL, of course)!!!!
The US Navy has sent a destroyer to escort the USNS Impeccable, an unarmed submarine hunting ship that Chinese vessels confronted last weekend, a defense official said yesterday.
That seems PROVOCATIVE (despite the slickster's rhetoric), doesn't it? Sending a destroyer in? That smells like ESCALATION!!!
Yang, in comments before the White House meeting, did not address the naval incident. He called for a "broader and deeper" level of US-Chinese cooperation on dealing with nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea, climate change, trade and economic issues, and an assortment of hotspots around the world.
"Confrontation hurts both sides," Yang said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Yeah, WARS are NEVER GOOD!! Israelis going to set up China with a false-flag? U.S was talking to Japan right up until Pearl Harbor!
The two countries, he said, should "shelve differences" that cannot be immediately resolved and focus on cooperation.
How galling is it for an American to agree with the Communist Chinese guy, huh? How far you have fallen, AmeriKa!
The White House said Obama and Yang also talked about the international financial crisis, North Korea, and Darfur. The United States said its ship was operating legally in international waters, but China said the ship was violating Chinese law by conducting surveillance too close to the Chinese coastline.
The United States said five Chinese ships improperly surrounded and harassed the Impeccable off Hainan Island on Sunday....
In its first public comment on the episode, China's Defense Ministry said yesterday that the Impeccable was operating illegally inside China's exclusive economic zone when it was challenged by three Chinese government ships and two Chinese-flagged trawlers.
"The Chinese side's carrying out of routine enforcement and safeguarding measures within its exclusive economic zone was entirely appropriate and legal," ministry spokesman Huang Xueping said in a statement faxed to reporters.
"We demand the United States respect our legal interests and security concerns, and take effective measures to prevent a recurrence of such incidents," Huang said....
I wouldn't get my hopes up, guy.
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Especially with our crap Congress (where are the resolutions condemning Israel for Gaza, huh?):
BEIJING - The Chinese government said yesterday that it had lodged a formal complaint with the Obama administration over a resolution passed by the US House of Representatives urging China to "cease its repression of the Tibetan people" and "to respond to the Dalai Lama's initiatives to find a lasting solution to the Tibetan issue."
I know it is painful, readers; however, the guy is a CIA asset. That explains why the college loved the guy, and the overwhelmingly positive coverage that guy gets in the AmeriKan MSM!
Representatives voted, 422-1, in Washington on Wednesday to pass the resolution, which was intended to mark the 50th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. The resolution is not legally binding.
I wonder who the one was -- as Congress wasted more time and money.
The Chinese regard the Tibet issue as an internal problem and chafe at foreign support for the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans who lives in exile in India. The Dalai Lama advocates autonomy for Tibet and not independence, although Beijing accuses him of supporting separatism.
Imagine if China was funding a separatist movement in Michigan, say, and had agent provocateurs running around committing violence like the Dl's guys. How would AmeriKa and their "newspapers" react, huh?
Yeah, I am tired of the double-standards, you betcha!!!
"The Chinese government and people are strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed to the approval of a Tibet resolution by the US Congress on Wednesday," Ma Zhaoxu, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a news conference yesterday. He added that the resolution "makes groundless accusations against China's religious policies" and "rudely intervenes in China's internal affairs."
Something the U.S. NEVER PUTS UP with (Israel even less so), and yet here we are MEDDLING in OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS!!!
Ma said China had filed a formal complaint to the US government over the resolution. Xinhua, the state news agency, ran several articles and editorials on its website denouncing the resolution. The editorial said the resolution "disregards the history and reality of the Chinese autonomous region by trying to justify Tibet's dark ages, glorify the treacherous Dalai Lama and baselessly criticize China's religious policy."
Too bad the guy is CIA because I rally liked him when I was at the school. Sigh.
Of course, the demonization and war promotion was in full view on the front page of this day in my agenda-pushing war daily:
West treats East
I'm waiting for the articles about the Palestinian, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iraqi casualties we've maimed and wounded. When do you think the joo war daily will run those items, folks? Oh, yeah, right.
