Today the Chinese government has blocked the BBC

[HEyHEY]

I can't get it because of a story on the US being "wary" of China's role in Africa. Got it via proxy. But just wanted to bring it to your attention. It's a wikileaks cable-based piece.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Oh don't wrry we are behind our own steel wall

:-)

And JUST NOW the US is dealing with that?

They did go over increasing tensions in the Koreas though. (Oh and for five minutes or so... we are much more busy with the effective transformation of US Democracy into PRI like behavior)

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Here's a bit of info. from the BBC site

The US is closely monitoring China's expanding role in Africa, the latest secret US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal.

A cable from February quotes a senior US official in the Nigerian capital, Lagos, describing China as "aggressive and pernicious".

However, the official says the US does not consider China a military, security or intelligence threat.

He describes China as "a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals".

"China is not in Africa for altruistic reasons," he says. "China is in Africa primarily for China."

He adds: "A secondary reason for China's presence is to secure votes in the United Nations from African countries."

He argues that China is not seen in Washington as a military or security threat at the moment. But he says there are, what he calls "tripwires" in Africa for the US when it comes to China.

"Have they signed military base agreements? Are they training armies? Have they developed intelligence operations? Once these areas start developing then the US will start worrying," he says.

Another US cable talks about China's military and intelligence support for the government of Kenya.

A Chinese enterprise is said to have won a contract to supply telephone monitoring equipment to Kenya after bribes were paid while on a trip to China.

[HEyHEY]

3. Yeah, I read it via proxy

BUt this makes me laugh. Whenever China whines about western media Bias I think about this kind of crap. They have published every wikileaks story that makes other countries look bad, then the one that makes them look bad is blocked... and WE'RE the bias ones...pfff

[PufPuf23]

4. The Chinese have made mercantile connections in most

resource-rich reasons that the USA-UK-Dutch consider strategic.

The part I do not understand about post WWII is that the USA stopped both Japan and Russia into China but then got involved in Korea and Vietnam that had Chinese backing.

I do believe the Chinese to be an ancient civilization that has learned from the USA as we converge in the future.

[HEyHEY]

5. Well, Japan an Russia were when Chiang Kai Shek was runnign things

The other two were when Mao was running things...