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Child’s Play (..or what’s going to happen to Libya?)

29 Wednesday Jun 2011

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And Another Thing (..or how not to behave with China)

29 Wednesday Jun 2011

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China signed a trade deal with Germany that was almost nine times the size of the one secured at London. If you consider the fact that David Cameron had managed to get trade agreement worth  Β£1.4 bn to British companies, this will give you an idea of how much more that amounts to. So why did Wen Jiabao refuse to shake Angela Merkel’s hand after a press conference and why during their exchange to the media did the Chinese Premier take his earphones off in utter disgust?

Europeans had no right to lecture China about human rights, he is reported to have said.

Watching Wen Jiabao on the world stage, takes you back say a hundred years when two nations were then emerging as major players in their own right.

One of  them was Japan and the other was of course Germany.

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πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί On Europe (..and where it goes after its Greek Crisis) πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·

28 Tuesday Jun 2011

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China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³, Europe πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί, Eurozone, Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ, Henry Kissinger

ANALYSIS – Is the current Greek crisis going to be Europe’s Lehman moment, and if so how will this affect how Europe is seen by the rest of the world? Ironically, for the most of the last decade, the European Union was seen by the United States as her only serious economic rival. The problem was, said Henry Kissinger, knowing which phone number to use. Today, Germany and France are exercising their minds and their people’s patience with the best way to solve Greece’s catch-22 – if she is allowed to sink, what will this do to the confidence investors would have in the Euro, and if she is allowed to continue on as before then the black holeΒ is only going to getΒ deeper and deeper.

Europe’s army, Nato, is currently engaged in operations in Afghanistan and Libya, where it has not performed well. The best that can be said of these campaigns is that at least her soldiers are getting some combat experience, which should hold them in good stead should another crisis flare up in the Balkans – few of us will ever forget how useless they were when faced by Milosevic during the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Then, the Americans intervened to preserve Nato, as they have done in Afghanistan and may have to do in Libya.

Trouble is, America will not be able to get Europe out of its current economic crisis.

That appears to be left to China, andΒ she has already indicated which phone numberΒ she will be using first – namely that of Germany.

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Throwing stones at China πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³

28 Tuesday Jun 2011

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ANALYSIS – The year is 1900, and a major rebellion is underway in the major provinces of China. The young men who are in revolt are objecting to the West β€˜taking over’ their country. They attack all symbols as they see it of all this western intrusion, including railways. The Boxer rebellion is put down by an international force that includes Great Britain, France, Italy and the emerging nations of Japan, the United States of America and Germany. It would take China more than eighty years to emerge from the weight of unfair treaties and capitulations that the European nations had demanded from her, in what they called the open door. Today, China has become a superpower, a serious rival to America for global leadership, so serious that Obama has identified himself as his country’s first β€˜Pacific’ President, who may also be the last to take Europe seriously. So, Wen Jiabao’s visit to London yesterday should have been a wonderful opportunity for David Cameron to foster a closer relationship with this economic powerhouse, given this country’s current predicament. Instead, we had the now customary spectacle of the Chinese Premier being lectured in front of the press on human rights by the man currently in the middle of a questionable war in Libya.

China’s human rights record in Tibet and Kashgar, as well as her attitude to freedom of expression are well documented and are rightly highlighted. However, those who lecture should also take a long hard at themselves – China emerged as a superpower after a horrendous period in her history which some of the nations who came to put down the Boxer rebellion had a hand in creating.

If China has moved on from that time, then perhaps so should Great Britain, who should also stop treatingΒ a former colony as a developing economy and take a leaf from the United States of America.If a report in The Financial TimesΒ is to be believed, Britain has lost its standing in China’s view, rating below Germany, France, Italy and Spain. Β Hopefully, Wen Jiabao andΒ the Chinese leadershipΒ will settle down to the line of thinking that a large number of us over here share, that Cameron does not know what he is doing, and that perhaps more disturbingly, he has appointed a Chancellor who is completely clueless.

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πŸ“Ί QUILLIAM – A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE COUNTER EXTREMISM THINK TANK SET UP BY THE πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ GOVERNMENT

25 Saturday Jun 2011

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Distant Echoes, DistantEchoes, GerrySutcliffeMP, Islamophobia, Lord Ahmed, Muslims, Nayab Chohan, NayabChohanINTERVIEW, NayabChohanLIVE, NayabChohanTELEVISION, Politics πŸ’Ό πŸ—³ πŸͺ–, Quilliam, Race Relations, Television πŸ“Ί, Template News, Terrorism, UK

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Journalist Nayab Chohan critiques the work of counter-extremist think-tank, Quilliam, funded by the UK Government to monitor British Muslims, with contributions from LORD Nazir Ahmed and Gerry Sutcliffe MP.

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Afghan Pullout

24 Friday Jun 2011

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Barack Obama has announced that his nation will pull out 33, 000 of her surge troops by next September. Β Earlier in the week, Β America admitted to holding talks with the Taliban. Both events can be seen as a logical conclusion to the American President’s address earlier this month in which he said that the man responsible for the greatest mass murder on his country’s soil was now dead. On the face of it, the logical conclusion of all this would a complete American pullout of Afghanistan. History has shown, however, Β that where Great Powers are concerned, nothing can be taken for granted. It was such for Great Britain and Imperial Spain, and despite America’s repeated denials at being an empire it will be the same for the Stars and Stripes.The last time, America found herself embroiled in a war she could not get out was of course in Vietnam, which had become a defeat in 1968 after the Tet offensive which led to the dramatic annoucement at the time by the then President Lyndon Johnson that he would not be seeking a second term at office. It took another seven years for them to leave, during which time they had held talks at least twice with their sworn enemy, the Vietcong, on each time the demand of their foes was the same – a complete withdrawal. Today, the demands of the Taliban are the same – a complete withdrawal, but with some 70,000 US troops still remaining after 2012, those in Afghanistan who are hoping to see the last helicopter gunship leaving the skies of Kabul may have to wait a while longer.

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One Hundred Days of War with Colonel Gaddafi

23 Thursday Jun 2011

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Ratko Mladic appears at the Hague

22 Wednesday Jun 2011

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Bosnia, Bosnia War Crimes, Islam, Ottoman Empire, Politics πŸ’Ό πŸ—³ πŸͺ–, Serbia, UN

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Tony Benn on death of Brian Haw, who set up a stand outside Parliament

21 Tuesday Jun 2011

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