Chinese president meets Myanmar head of junta

[Nyaine Chun]

Chinese President Hu Jintao met Saturday with Than Shwe, chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar, on the sidelines of the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta.

China and Myanmar are friendly neighbors and their people have close relations like brothers and sisters, Hu said, adding that China-Myanmar relationship has withstood the test of changes in international and domestic situation over the past 55 years of diplomatic ties.

The Chinese president said he is "satisfied" with the growth of bilateral ties between China and Myanmar, and that it has been an important part of China's foreign policy to maintain a friendly ties with Myanmar.

"We will work with our friends in Myanmar to carry on the traditional friendship and bring our bilateral relationship to a new high," said Hu Jintao.

China and Myanmar have conducted fruitful cooperation in areas of agriculture, human resources development, natural resources development and infrastructure construction, according to Hu.

Hu proposed the two countries explore new ways and means to expand economic cooperation and trade, saying China will provide assistance to Myanmar for its economic construction.

Chairman Than Shwe said the people of Myanmar are glad to see China's economic miracle and grateful of China's assistance and support.

He said Myanmar has increased investment in manufacturing and hopes more Chinese firms would come to invest.

Chairman Than Shwe briefed Hu on the domestic situation of Myanmar. Hu said China would continue to support the efforts of the Myanmar government to maintain national stability, unity among ethnic groups and expansion of foreign exchange.

People's Daily (China)

[Fran Thwaites]

Beijing will, indeed, be the "Blood Olympics" !!
Chilling to think that the free world is looking to China to take a stand against the ruling junta in Burma. China's own record of Human Rights abuses over the past few decades is possibly even worse than Burma's.
Their new position of strength in the modern world means they don't think they need to fear or respect anyone.

A BOYCOTT of the Beijing Olympics in the name of DASSK would speak volumes, and would also throw the world spotlight on what is happening in Burma.

But has the Western world got the courage to boycott the games? I think  not.

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

Boycott the Olympics

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

Boycott the Olympics and stop buying Chinese made products.

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

And The United States of America, and Australia, give China a favoured status. What a load of hipocrites. George W Bush only two days ago was ranting on about continuing the trade and economic embargo on Cuba, because they will not hold free and fair democratic elections. Yet he  panders to the economic might of China.

Anyone who goes to the China Olympic Games is supporting a despotic state that knows nothing of human rights, and support terrorists.

The whole world should boycott the Olympics, and send a clear message to China, India, the USA, Australia, the United Nations Security Council, and the rest of the world; that it is sick of the hipocracy shown by them. The profit driven Corporate ruled democratic nations must start to heed the people of the electorate, and not be driven by the few who control industry and the finance sector.

Free Burma, free the world.

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

When will the United Nations and the International Court, give the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the respect it deserves. When will they give the people of the world the respect they deserve.

Every leader of every Nation that deals with the illegal military regime in Burma should face the international Court.

Free Burma, free the World.

Boycott the Olympics.

[nilamin]

Yes, boycotting the 2008 Olympics will help China leaders to re-think about their abuse on their own people and small country like ours. For me, the Chinese people are not our enemies.

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

Prime Minister Rudd from Australia, just got back from his first world holiday, and stop over in China. Too busy doing nothing to notice Burma still exists. I think he Thinks it is in Tibet

[Hammurabi]

China, China. The one and only group ruling China. That is same as Burma.

Here is a part of information you can found on "this UN Commission on Human Rights page"


"Growing poverty and the failure of state policies are reportedly driving increasing numbers of young people to migrate in search of work. As a result, women and girls are allegedly disappearing without trace, being sold as wives in China, and tricked into the Chinese and Myanmar sex industries. A nation plan of Action for trafficking women and children and a national task force were set up in 1998 by the SPDC as Myanmar is a signatory to UN Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish the Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children on March 30, 2004. However, according to research done by Kachin Women Association Thailand, the SPDC is failing to address the root causes of the trafficking problem of Myanmar, specifically for failing to provide women with adequate protection of their basic human rights. The report has documented 63 cases which occurred between 2000 and 2004 and the cases involved 85 Kachin women and girls mostly between the ages of 14 to 20."

[Satyagraha]

Quick to criticize PRC in effort to move to humanitarian action.

 
Must equally quick ask for prayer and help for China at  moment of disaster.
 
China is making a different response to the earthquake from the response made by the SPDC to the cyclone:

Olympic torch relay in eastern Jianxi began with a minute's silence. Later  run put on hold.

Cyclone survivors struggle for find food, water, shelter.

[Gregory John O'Flaherty]

Quick to criticize PRC in effort to move to humanitarian action. Must be equally quick to ask for prayer and help for China at moment of disaster.

7.8 magnitude earthquake devastate steep hill region of small cities and villages  north of Sichuan provincial capital, Chengdu. Earthquake topple 80 percent of structures, killing thousands of persons and trapping thousands more in mounds of concrete, steel and earth. This is China worst earthquake in thirty years.

China make different response to earthquake from SPDC response to cyclone: The Chinese authorities have launched a major rescue operation, deploying troops to the area...

Totally agree. We can not blame the Chinese people for the Governments policies. The Chinese victims of this disaster need our support and prayers.

[kala]

The way the PRC reacted in the wake of the earthquake has changed attitudes in the West concerning The Peoples' Republic of China. The West's praise of the PRC authorities' own swift relief efforts has similarly altered the feelings of  many Chinese who view the West as hostile.

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, expressing his confidence in Asia’s growth over the next 25 years, said, The international community needs to understand the strength of gut emotions in Chinese society, and collective psyche. At the same time, the Chinese people need to develop a sense of their new place and power in the world, and learn how to engage the West with measured confidence. (People's Daily On-line)

Someone forgot to school the PRC coaches gathered at Qiandao on this. They are being hard  pressed to extend PRC hegemony within the arena. They are not asked. They are mandated to do it or to find another way to live.

While the Chinese can be admired for their recent show of concern for their countrymen, it is not a reason to overlook their objective from the dark ages of the cultural revolution. That objective is very much present in Beijing's 08-08-08 agenda! Vice-President, Xi Jinping, said. We will do it.

China's hegemony places the PRC into a position in which  it can not afford to ignore human rights at home, among its associate nations, and in the world at large.

Boycott the Olympics!