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发帖数: 772 | 1 I’m sure China’s leaders won’t be thanking Libyan leader Col. Muammar
Gaddafi for his fulsome praise last night of China’s approach to the
Tiananmen Square crackdown.
With pressure mounting for him to step down, Gaddafi launched a blistering
attack on what he described as drug-fuelled ‘cockroach’ protesters who he
claimed were ‘drunken and duped.’ Speaking for well over an hour, Gaddafi
vowed to stay and fight on in Libya until the ‘last drop’ of his blood in
a fist-banging display of furious rhetoric.
On Tiananmen, Gaddafi said: ‘Students in Beijing protested for days near a
Coca-Cola sign...Then the tanks came and crushed them.’
In reality Gaddafi appears to have more than exceeded the 1989 crackdown,
with numerous reports of warplanes being used to bomb protesters, as well as
non-Libyan thugs being hired to terrorize citizens in their homes. Such an
escalation against one’s own citizens is bizarre and deeply disturbing. As
Matt Gurney noted in the National Post yesterday, when you start bombing
your own capital, then the end really is near.
China often finds itself in tricky positions over such developments,
reluctant to condemn crackdowns on unrest for fear of drawing attention to
its own ‘issues’ with democracy. But perhaps in part because it doesn’t
want to get sucked into any association with a paranoid leader who seems so
detached from the reality unfolding around him, China joined all other UN
Security Council members in demanding an immediate end to the violence, and
the immediate lifting of restrictions on all forms of the media.
There is, though, a certain irony in this last demand—mainland viewers of
CNN’s coverage of the speech found their screens going dark briefly last
night when Gaddafi got to the point about Tiananmen.
http://the-diplomat.com/china-power/2011/02/23/gaddafi%E2%80%99 |
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