[PEN-L:6718] Re: People's Daily Commentary

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just like if the Official Spokesperson of the United States Government says it was a "mistake" or "accident" that certainly makes it so. Obviously, you ARE very impressed by source.

Big Brother media control is in the U.S. just as much as anywhere.


Charles Brown

>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx> 05/12/99 02:37PM >>>
Henry,
      Ooooooh.  Well, if His Excellency, President
Jiang Zemin declares  that "mistaken bombing"
or "accident" is "prevarication" and "can never be
accepted" as explanations, that certainly makes
it so.  I am very impressed.
      BTW, let us be very clear that "explanation" is
most definitely not the same think as "justification."
There is no justification for what has happened.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry C.K. Liu <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 12:41 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6700] People's Daily Commentary


>People's Daily: NATO, Serious Threat to World Peace
>
>BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China's leading newspaper, the People's
>Daily, has accused the U.S.-led NATO strikes against the Chinese Embassy
>in Belgrade as brutal infringement upon
>China's sovereignty and national dignity, and a serious threat to world
>peace and security.
>
>In a commentary entitled "Serious Threat to World Peace" to be published
>Wednesday, the paper pointed out that the lunatic U.S.- led NATO strikes
>against the Chinese Embassy have shocked the whole world and ignited
>wide-spread condemnation and indignation among the world people.
>
>Quoting Chinese President Jiang Zemin as saying, "The U.S.-led NATO must
>bear full responsibility for the atrocity, or the Chinese people will
>not leave the matter at that," the paper pointed out that any
>prevarication such as "mistaken bombing" or " accident" can never be
>accepted.
>
>Development and peace have become the irresistible trend of the world
>since the end of the cold war. As a cold-war-time military organization,
>NATO, manipulated by the U.S., did not
>disband with the end of the cold war, but kept growing larger to the
>contrary of the expectation of the world people, said the paper.
>
>According to its so-called "new strategic concept" made public late
>April, NATO has developed from a defensive organization to an offensive
>military and political one, which can extend its
>military actions to areas beyond the north Atlantic and wage war against
>any country without authorization from the United Nations.
>
>Obviously, this is a new strategic concept of hegemonism inflated, and
>NATO's military attack against Yugoslavia bypassing the United Nations
>is a practice of this concept, said the paper.
>
>The paper added the U.S.-led NATO military strike against Yugoslavia is
>a downright gunboat policy. In history, the Western powers ran wild by
>relying on advanced cannons and boats.
>Today, the U.S.-led NATO uses high-tech weapons to wantonly bomb a small
>nation and even wantonly raided the embassy of a permanent member of the
>U.N. Security Council in flagrant
>defiance of the U.N. Charter and basic principles governing
>international relations.
>
>Such new gunboat policy is more fierce and more dangerous, and poses
>greater threat to world peace, the paper warned, calling on all the
>peace-loving people in the world and responsible
>politicians of various countries to be highly vigilant against this
>dangerous tendency of U.S.-led NATO.
>
>The paper stressed that major powers bear unshirkable responsibilities
>for safeguarding world peace and security. In their telephone
>conversation on May 10, President Jiang Zemin and
>Russian President Boris Yeltsin agreed that, as Security Council
>permanent members and countries with vital influence in the world, China
>and Russia bear strong responsibilities for maintaining justice and
>defending peace. They noted that China and Russia have cooperated well
>on the Kosovo and other important international issues and will continue
>to keep in close contact to make their efforts for the maintaining of
>world peace and security.
>
>The paper finally urged all the peace-loving countries to work together
>to immediately halt the extremely barbaric military actions against
>Yugoslavia by the U.S.-led NATO in defense of world
>peace.
>
>