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To: TobagoJack who wrote (66169)	9/18/2010 6:52:55 PM
From: Hawkmoon	3 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218308

My o my.. aren't we being truly amoral with regard to Chinese influence over it's neighbors in order to maintain it's "buffers".. Chinese support of NK has led to millions of people dying of starvation there, including thousands of children. As for Pol Pot, you need to revisit your history. Cambodia was increasingly under pressure from N. Vietnamese and Russian pressure to permit Viet Cong and NVA "sanctuaries" from which to attack S. Vietnam. That government (led by the very weak Prince Sihanouk) came unraveled under that pressure. en.wikipedia.org Chinese supported Pol Pot filled the void as a counter to Russian supported Vietnam after Pot adopted Maoist revolutionary ideas in 1976 (a full year after the US had left Vietnam in disgrace). Again, the evidence is clear: "China owes Cambodian people an apology," said Lao Mong Hay, former director of the Khmer Institute of Democracy in Phnom Penh and now a senior researcher at the Asian Human Rights Commission in Hong Kong. "It supported the Khmer Rouge before coming to power and continued to lend its support even after Pol Pot assumed power regardless of what was happening to Cambodian people." According to Mong Hay, China had donated $1 billion to Democratic Kampuchea before 1979 and another billion dollars after 1979 in order to fight the Vietnamese invasion. China often admonishes Japan to "face up" to history, insisting that Tokyo's unapologetic attitude regarding its invasionist politics of the past impedes relations with its neighbors. But when applied to China's own past, reckoning of history's fallacies is discarded as irrelevant to current and future developments. atimes.com All nations (including the US), in pursuing their economic and security interests, are guilty of engaging in policies that have resulted in oppression and/or genocide, even if at a localized, tribal, level. We must accept the blame for that.. For China to mature into becoming a responsible member of the international community, they must, as well, accept their responsibility where their policies have led to atrocities by their client states. Ultimately, being a non-democratic government, China also has no interest in promoting pluralist government. Bejing's only agenda is regional influence and economic exploitation. And isn't it also ironic that Bejing, seeing democracy as not critical for their society, freely benefits from it in the democratic UN, with the power to veto any resolution to boot. Now go away and don't bother this thread with your ramblings and delusional historical inaccuracies. Hawk