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To: Jerome who wrote (45083)	4/5/2001 9:23:54 AM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 70976

Gunpowder gg

To: Jerome who wrote (45083)	4/5/2001 10:17:22 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

OT We got to get tough in this case We(the West) should have have gotten tough with China long ago. They are now a rogue nation wearing MFN status. If this same incident had happened over Syria and our people were being held, the word hostage would have come out in the first hour. Because of the mere fact they do a great amount of trade with the west, we don't wish to upset them and this has been the pathetic strategy for the past 25 years. Alexander Stolznitzen(?) once called China the most oppressive communist country on the face of the earth. This is saying something, especially since he had spent time in a Russian Gulag for many years. The time has come to make China accountable for their actions on political rights issues; no longer should they be able to call them "internal affairs" only to have the west turn the other way while they proceed to go on with systematic torture and abuse of fundamental human rights. Making them accountable means the west must be multilateral in their approach; we cannot get tough on China only to have the Europeans or Japanese continue with business as usual. BK