Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, June 16, 2008 1:08:36 AM
“Russia is a global player and understands its responsibility for the fate of the world,” explained Medvedev [President of the Russian Federation]. “We want to participate in setting the new rules of the game.”
Kremlin, Moscow
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Up to Old Tricks
by J. R. Nyquist
A friend from the Dark Continent recently sent me a story about Communist China’s growing dominance in Africa. “Strange you don’t see that much protest from those who are against imperialism and war,” he noted ironically, “only if imperialism and war happens to be under the flag of a Western nation such as the United States.” When Europe built roads and mines and ports in Africa it was called “evil.” Now that China builds roads and mines and ports in Africa it is called “cooperation based on mutual benefit.” What is beneficial about the Maoist regime in Zimbabwe, or the Marxists of Namibia or Congo or the ANC? What good has come of the Chinese presence in Sudan?
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