China and Saudi Arabia: The Human Rights' Cost of Chinese Oil
Chinese President Hu Jintao continues his efforts aimed at securing oil for his thirsty country no matter what the costs are. Through his visit to Saudi Arabia he scored multiple points for Chinese oil, Chinese abuse of Human Rights, Islamist regimes abuse of Human Rights and an altogether shitty world.
While in Saudi Arabia, Hu signed a deal for oil with the Saudi kingdom. So far no problem. The right to buy oil belongs to everyone; and now that China has the purchasing power through its artificially low exchange rate (attracting more purchases and contributing to China's surplus) it can also acquire the oil. However it is Hu's accompanying declaration that has turned things ugly.
In a speech to the Shura, the Saudi advisory council, Hu stressed that differences should not be used as a pretext to interfere in other nations internal affairs "nor should we blame civilizations, nationality or religion for the world's existing disputes". The motivation for this proclamation is clear and by no means nice. Through this declaration Hu adressed Islamist regimes main concerns about intervening in their internal affairs due to abyssmal Human Rights records; a concern he himself shares as demonstrated in his recent visit to the US.
During that visit, Hu faced a plethora of demonstration groups including Taiwanese nationals, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan supporters and persecuted Chinese nationals all pointing at China's own poor Human Rights record. And so he too, like the Islamist regimes, is frightful of an intervention. And this is where Hu's declaration becomes important: he is literally sending a sign to the Islamist regimes that as long as they have oil, their Human Rights violations would not matter because they have the great violator China behind them - of ourse just as long as they supply the oil to China. Not surprisingly, this should also serve as an indication for China's stance in the upcoming (April 28) Security Council deliberations on the Iranian nuclear threat; as China once more puts its oil needs above everything else, the way America did for so many years before the war in Iraq.
And so in conclusion anybody who supports Human Rights and cares about World Peace (and I'm not just referring to beauty queens), should find this kind of diplomacy reprihensible; and insist that China should not be allowed to prosper at the expense of world security or the liberties of people in the Middle East and China proper.
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Middle East, China, Saudi Arabia, Human Rights, US, Taiwan, Tibet, Iran, Nuclear Power, Security Council, Oil.
While in Saudi Arabia, Hu signed a deal for oil with the Saudi kingdom. So far no problem. The right to buy oil belongs to everyone; and now that China has the purchasing power through its artificially low exchange rate (attracting more purchases and contributing to China's surplus) it can also acquire the oil. However it is Hu's accompanying declaration that has turned things ugly.
In a speech to the Shura, the Saudi advisory council, Hu stressed that differences should not be used as a pretext to interfere in other nations internal affairs "nor should we blame civilizations, nationality or religion for the world's existing disputes". The motivation for this proclamation is clear and by no means nice. Through this declaration Hu adressed Islamist regimes main concerns about intervening in their internal affairs due to abyssmal Human Rights records; a concern he himself shares as demonstrated in his recent visit to the US.
During that visit, Hu faced a plethora of demonstration groups including Taiwanese nationals, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan supporters and persecuted Chinese nationals all pointing at China's own poor Human Rights record. And so he too, like the Islamist regimes, is frightful of an intervention. And this is where Hu's declaration becomes important: he is literally sending a sign to the Islamist regimes that as long as they have oil, their Human Rights violations would not matter because they have the great violator China behind them - of ourse just as long as they supply the oil to China. Not surprisingly, this should also serve as an indication for China's stance in the upcoming (April 28) Security Council deliberations on the Iranian nuclear threat; as China once more puts its oil needs above everything else, the way America did for so many years before the war in Iraq.
And so in conclusion anybody who supports Human Rights and cares about World Peace (and I'm not just referring to beauty queens), should find this kind of diplomacy reprihensible; and insist that China should not be allowed to prosper at the expense of world security or the liberties of people in the Middle East and China proper.
tags:
Middle East, China, Saudi Arabia, Human Rights, US, Taiwan, Tibet, Iran, Nuclear Power, Security Council, Oil.
posted by The Middle East News Addict at 8:33 PM
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