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40ties, 3 children, full time work, little time.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

China interest in Georgia

I have just entered Georgia in Google news looking for chinese perspective on the conflict, and there was nothing in the first page. I did a country specific news search and guess what: it has barely registered on their radar. So much for the issue being of international importance. I would not be surprised if China did not look at the Georgia from human rights perspective: after all, the even west educated returners to China do not really believe in human rights if these interfere with chinese interests. But they are really relegating it way down the news pecking order. This means that they absolutely believe in Russia's right to tidy things in their own back yard, and further more that this is not going to escalate. Poor Saakashvili, he really swallowed the propaganda of USA standing behind the plucky little democracies. He forgot to invest in the LOBBY.

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