Friday, August 10, 2007

The two Chinas

It is pretty amazing to see the differences between the Taiwanese, and the Chinese.  This article comments on the Russians:

Moscow is refusing to meet commitments it made to Tehran until the latter shows more willingness to cooperate with the UN on its nuclear activities

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Whilst this article shows how wishy washy the Chinese have been:

"The Chinese have been less enthusiastic to push forward the sanctions in general than we and the Europeans and even the Russians have," Burns said.

China's Iran stance worries US, Israel | Jerusalem Post




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Who's side are the Iraqi leadership on?

Here we go, it is about time that GW Bush started to get annoyed with the Iraqi leadership.

Bush, holding a pre-vacation press conference, said he was not surprised at pictures showing cordial meetings between Maliki and top Iranian leaders in Tehran but that he hoped the prime minister was delivering a tough message.

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