I'm not even angry, I'm just insulted!!!
Imagine how China must feel!!!
"Gates Warns China Not to Bully Region on Energy
SINGAPORE — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a set of thinly veiled warnings to China on Saturday, cautioning that it could risk its share of further gains in Asia’s economic prosperity if it bullied its neighbors over natural resources in contested areas like the South China Sea.
Excuse me? WHO INVADED IRAQ based upon UNHOLY LIES!!!!
Three years ago at the same lectern here, Mr. Gates’s predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, bluntly criticized China’s swift military buildup. Last year Mr. Gates struck a more conciliatory tone, saying Beijing and Washington had a chance to “build trust over time.”
Mr. Gates seemed to take a third approach in his remarks to a major regional Asia security conference here, seeking to lay down clear markers of continued American commitments to the region while also obliquely criticizing China.
Criticize China over what?
Reaction to "natural " disaster (Katrina)?
Torture (oops, can't use that one anymore)?
Suppression of dissent?
Their media?
Aggressive invasions of sovereign states?
There's NO THERE, THERE, readers!
AmeriKa has NO STANDING to CRITICIZE ANYONE!!!
He said that in his four trips to Asia since becoming defense secretary 18 months ago, several countries had expressed concern about “the security implications of rising demand for resources” (translation: China’s voracious quest for new sources of energy) and about “coercive diplomacy” (translation: China’s contested claims of resource-rich territorial waters).
I mean, this stuff is amazing. I can see why the world thinks we are assholes now.
Mr. Gates said there were rewards for playing by an international set of rules in a transparent way:
“We should not forget that globalization has permitted our shared rise in wealth over recent decades. This achievement rests above all on openness: openness of trade, openness of ideas, and openness of what I would call the ‘common areas’ — whether in the maritime, space, or cyber domains.”
This from the MOST SECRETIVE administration in history.
I'm GAGGING on the STENCH of AmeriKan HYPOCRISY, readers!
And the "rewards" are for playing by "OUR RULES!"
As for the punishments, see Iraq!
The secretary specifically praised Beijing twice, noting that he had recently set up a telephone hot line with his Chinese defense counterpart and that the American-backed, six-party negotiations intended to temper North Korea’s nuclear ambitions “would not be possible without China’s valued cooperation.”
Otherwise, Mr. Gates spoke in a diplomatic code that his senior aides said would be clearly understood not only in Beijing but also in other Asian capitals and by the hundreds of security experts attending the annual regional conference sponsored by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Pfffffttt!
Mr. Gates and his aides had debated just how blunt he ought to be in his address, which opened the Saturday session. In the end, aides said, he accepted the argument that taking a more direct approach would play to Beijing’s advantage and that a subtler, more indirect tack would win more support among Asian allies.
In the speech he recalled disputes in the mid-1990s between China and its neighbors over competing boundary and resource claims in the South China Sea, tensions that have resurfaced among China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.
“We urged then, as we do today, the maintenance of a calm and nonassertive environment in which contending claims may be discussed and, if possible, resolved,” he said.
But that doesn't apply to Iran or Palestine, 'eh, Bob?
Mr. Gates, as he did last year at the conference, said that the United States “seeks more openness in military modernization in Asia. Transparency enhances confidence and reduces competitive spending.”
The guy is incredible! What a weaselly shit!!!!
And why would he want to reduce spending on "defense," readers?
Then his war-profiteering friend shouldn't be gobbling up loot!
He also delivered a scolding reference to China’s unannounced destruction of a satellite in January 2007 when he described how the Pentagon handled a similar situation much differently in February, alerting others before shooting down a failing satellite over the Pacific just before it tumbled uncontrollably to Earth carrying toxic fuel.
But he did it diplomatically!!!
Lt. Gen. Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army, pushed back during his speech, saying that China was not engaged in an arms race and that its military spending, compared with other sectors of its economy, was “limited and proportional.” In a clear reference to America’s plan to build missile defense systems, General Ma said deploying such defenses “was not helpful” to regional stability.
Mr. Gates made clear that central to the Bush administration’s Asia policy is maintaining American military might and economic sway in the region.
That's the Clean Break, AIPAC, PNAC PLAN!!
Indeed, Mr. Gates’s first stop on his weeklong visit to Asia was to Guam, where he took a helicopter tour on Friday to review Pentagon plans to spend $15 billion over the next six years to upgrade and expand World War II-era installations to accommodate thousands of additional American troops, and to broaden training missions with regional partners like Japan.
Something is in the works, folks!
The WARS are going to WIDEN, no doubt about it!
He said Saturday that Washington’s policy also focused on empowering regional allies to defend themselves by strengthening their armed forces and by building more robust economies and open political systems. This policy is almost sure to endure no matter which party wins the White House in the November election, he said...."
So the "vote" ain't gonna mean shit, huh?
Pffffttt!
All bullshit fooleys!!!!
As for Gates' tact and diplomacy, did he and the MSM forget that China just suffered a devastating tragedy?
"China elevates quake-area flood threat; Officials devise plan for mass evacuation" by William Foreman, Associated Press | May 31, 2008
CHENGDU, China - Chinese officials yesterday upgraded the threat posed by waters that are rising quickly behind a mass of rocks and earth that tumbled from a mountainside when the May 12 earthquake struck and blocked a river near dozens of villages.
Troops in Sichuan Province are moving almost 200,000 people, who are in the direct path of a potential flood, to higher ground. Many of those people are already living in tents or other temporary shelters because the quake destroyed their homes.
Oh, Gee-zuss!!!
Officials also said they have a plan to evacuate 1.3 million people in and around Mianyang, a city that could face flooding, within five hours if the quake-made dam holding back a lake breaks. An official with the press office of Mianyang City Quake Control and Relief Headquarters said authorities will run an evacuation drill for three days starting today.
The drill will consist of testing the command system of various levels of government officials to ensure that any order to evacuate - if it comes - would be passed quickly to everyone in the valley. Officials said 197,500 people in the valley are being moved to higher ground, about 30,000 more than announced in recent days.
This is an ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY!!
And there are indications it may not be natural at all, readers!
CUI BONO?
And when is the West Coast earthquake going to hit?
Perfect excuse for Bush's martial law "emergency."
Hundreds of troops using bulldozers and excavating machines have worked around the clock at the earthquake-formed lake, named Tangjiashan. They are digging channels to drain the lake. There was no sign that the lake dam was close to bursting yesterday, though officials say it could do so in coming days.
At least the Chinese are trying; I don't remember such efforts or urgency during Katrina!!!!
Tangjiashan is the largest of more than 30 lakes that have formed behind landslides caused by the quake, which also weakened man-made dams in mountainous areas. In a separate development yesterday, the government said most of the 8,000 children found alone after the earthquake have been reunited with their parents.
Finally, a silver lining amongst the storm clouds!!!
About 1,000 children have not been spoken for, but the need to find adoptive families is now far less than earlier thought.
Ye Lu, a senior official at the Civil Affairs Department in hard-hit Sichuan Province:
"We are still getting thousands of calls per week asking about how to adopt, but we are still hoping to find the parents of these 1,000 kids."
More than 18,000 people are listed as missing more than two weeks after the quake, which crumbled scores of towns and left 5 million people homeless across Sichuan Province.
The sheer number is staggering.
The government yesterday raised the confirmed death toll to 68,858. Officials expect the final tally to top 80,000. Many of the 5 million left homeless are living in tent camps or prefabricated housing being erected by troops.
I hope the prefab houses aren't loaded with formaldehyde like the trailers the U.S. government gave to the Katrina survivors.
Meanwhile, Japan said it had decided not to use military planes to deliver aid to the quake zone, after Beijing voiced uneasiness over the mission."
Given the history of those two nations, I can understand China's feeling there!
How about one more knock at China, as if they aren't suffering enough.
"Chinese show new respect for nature; Reservoir weight stressing faults" by Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times | May 31, 2008
BEIJING - Mao Tse-tung famously declared "man must conquer nature," and his political heirs have followed his dictum zealously by building dams and other gigantic projects that have altered the landscape of China.
But this month's deadly earthquake might tilt the balance of public opinion in favor of a more cautious and environmentally conscious approach to such development.
So when is AmeriKa going to learn?
We got fire, floods, tornadoes and drought!
China has more dams than any other country, about half the world's total, and the presence of so many near the epicenter in Sichuan Province has been a huge complication in the quake's aftermath. After two weeks of downplaying the problem, the Water Resources Ministry acknowledged this week that about 70 reservoirs and dams were on the verge of collapse, while nearly 3,000 in China have sustained damage.
This is really going to break them, readers.
The scale of destruction is massive, readers!!!
The threat of flash floods has forced tens of thousands of traumatized quake survivors to relocate, some more than once. The dams also prevented rescue workers from navigating the rivers to reach victims in areas made inaccessible after roads were washed out.
Oh, Chinese people!! Please, God, ease their suffering! This is TRAGIC!!!!
Many Chinese ascribe to the belief that natural disasters are the result of human failings and point to the widespread construction of dams as a possible culprit. The Min River, a tributary of the Yangtze River that runs through the path of destruction, is one of the most dammed-up rivers in the country.
Ai Nanshan, a professor of environmental sciences at Sichuan University in Chengdu:
"Chinese ancient culture has a philosophy of a cohesive connection between people and nature. What we did to that river shows no respect for nature, and now nature is taking its revenge."
Wow! He sounds as bad as Sharon Stone!
Of course, if it was the HAARP weapon, then what?
Geologists long have warned of the danger of building dams in earthquake-prone locations. Not only can the structures collapse, but some tremors - most famously one in 1967 in Koyna, India - are believed to have been triggered by the weight of a dam's reservoir.
(Blog author just shaking his head at the devastation).
Peter Bosshard, policy director of International Rivers, a Berkeley, Calif., environmental group:
"We don't want to appear to benefit from human catastrophe by pushing an agenda, but we are making information about earthquakes and dams available."
But they will do it anyway -- just like the MSM!!!
Bosshard said three people he met on a visit to Beijing this week separately predicted that the Chinese government would reconsider its aggressive dam-building program. It is too late to stop China's notorious Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power project, which is nearly complete at a cost of $30 billion and more than 1 million people displaced.
How come their projects -- or the Iranian nuclear power project -- is "notorious," readers, while U.S. projects are applauded?
Why am I detecting an ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA-PUSH, readers?
But environmentalists are likely to use the Sichuan experience to fight another controversial dam planned for the Nu River in a quake-prone location near the border with Burma.
Within days of the magnitude-7.9 quake on May 12, activists scored a big victory when
A demonstration early in May had not appeared to derail the project by China's largest state-run oil company; indeed, just hours before the tremor, some protest organizers were arrested on charges of inciting unrest.
Ai: "You had the earthquake and everything changed overnight."
Like what, China did this to itself?
I'm sorry, AmeriKan MSM, but that's our government's gig!
