Xinhua: West Has 'Hegemonistic Ambitions' in Syria
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Chinese state media on Saturday accused the U.S. and Europe of "harboring hegemonistic ambitions" in Syria, after Western and Arab nations ratcheted up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad at a meeting in Tunisia.
In a commentary Beijing's official Xinhua news agency said that "most of the Arab countries have begun to realize that the United States and Europe are hiding a dagger behind a smile".
"In other words, while they appear to be acting out of humanitarian concern, they are actually harboring hegemonistic ambitions," it said.
Xinhua claimed that the Friends of Syria conference -- which was boycotted by both China and Russia -- "concluded with a consensus on avoiding a militarization of the conflict in Syria".
But the meeting of more than 60 foreign ministers saw calls for Arab peacekeepers to intervene and for the opposition to be armed, as well as a US warning that Assad would pay a heavy price for defying international will.
Xinhua said that China "did not attend the conference as it wants more clarity on the aim, effect and mechanism" of the meeting.
It said Arab countries wanted "to make sure a tragedy similar to Libya's would not unfold in Syria".
"As a friend of the Syrian and Arab peoples, China believes any action taken by the international community should help to cease tensions, boost political dialogues, resolve differences and maintain peace and stability in the Middle East," it added.
The absence of Beijing and Moscow's representatives from Friday's meeting highlighted the difficulty in building an international consensus on Syria.
Both countries have frustrated efforts to rein in Assad's regime, including by vetoing U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Xinhua did not comment on remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the meeting in which she said: "We need to change the attitude of the Russians and Chinese.
"They must understand they are setting themselves against the aspirations not only of the Syrian people but of the entire Arab Spring," she told reporters."
25 February 2012, 17:48
01
LOL!! Very funny indeed!! The Chinese Dictatorship Junta that has staged many hundreds if not thousands of massacres in China itself (ex: Tian anmen) and still arrests and murders people in Tibet for demanding freedom and self determination and continues to spy and imprison their own people by denying them their basic freedom rights and blocks internet sites and heavily sensors all kinds of intellectual material and products and hires the Chinese to spy on the Chinese as well as foreigners and supports a corrupt to the bone rogue dictatorship in North Korea that literarily starves its people to buy weapons and build mansions for its top brass in the dictatorship army…,
25 February 2012, 17:49
01
...this very same Junta claims to be the friend of the Syrian and the Arab and Middle Eastern people even while using their veto to support the criminal ASSad as he commits the ugliest of Genocides against his own people. The corrupt Chinese Junta is in Damage control mode trying to safe guard its economical interests in the ME at the expense of people's freedom and security.
25 February 2012, 17:50
01
The thick Chinese dictatorship have had their way for so long that they don't see that their game is over and that the Chinese Educated Middle Class will not settle for hand me down bribes for long and will demand democracy and the stoppage of wasting of their nation's treasure in supporting criminal regimes abroad at the whim of the Junta in their name and at their expense in China but mostly abroad.
25 February 2012, 20:05
00
TITUS, my genius friend, can you please explain what the difference is between a hegemony and a dictatorship? Are they both internal? Both external? One internal and another external? And can a non-dictatorship be hegemonic, such as Britain or the US for example? How about a dictatorship like the old Soviet Union? Are non-dictatorships the only ones who can legally be hegemonic and should dictatorships be disqualified? Will "hegemonized" nations live in pride and honor under a non-dictatorship than under a dictatorship, such as India or Algeria, for example? Your prompt clarifications will be very helpful as I have a homework on the topic to present by next Wednesday and I am stuck. Your vast knowledge and precious input will be very much appreciated.
