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Scott Sullivan :
China to Stop Iran and Pakistan?
China is to be congratulated for persevering in its showdown with Google. Many US policymakers automatically sided with Google because they hoped this dispute would weaken China. Unfortunately for them, China is growing stronger not weaker as a result of this dispute. The Beijing-based Baidu Inc, China's state sponsored rival to Google, is now beginning to win the battle for dominance in China's domestic market.
China hopesto regulate the internet in China to monitor the intentions of foreign and domestic groups who cooperate with the activities of US-based “Democracy Groups.” Under President Bush such groups brought down Yugoslavia's government and made unsucce4ssful attempts to bring down China's government, a policy that could be extended in the Obama administration.
China can best consolidate this internet victory in three ways.
First, China's security services should prepare a documented report on the activities of Carl Gershman and other so-called “Democracy Activists” who use human rights issues as a smokescreen for US support to dangerous ethnic separatist groups in China, such as the Uighurs, who resemble in their separatist role in today's China the Confederate separatists in US history. Although the US Confederates represented only a minority of the US population (approximately 25 to 30 %) they nonetheless sought to weaken President Lincoln and the economy of the entire US by illegally altering US borders with Mexico and other states, to the benefit of this or that special interest. China's report will draw a direct parallel between the separatist threats to Abraham Lincoln's United States and to China today.
Second, China shall use the occasion of its victory over Google to draw public attention to China's earlier victory over the ethnic separatists; i.e, China's defeat of the Tibetan ethnic separatists who attempted, without success, to disrupt the most recent Olympics, in China and abroad. With this vigilant action, China sent a clear signal that Chinese borders are not for sale, by the Uighers, the Tibetans, or any other group. China's anti-separatist declarations and actions at the Olympics were embraced by most of the Central Asian governments, with the notable exceptions of Pakistan and Iran.
Third, China shall augment its constructive role in preserving Central Asian and Middle Eastern security, by proposing a Joint Statement signed by the US, China and Russia calling on Pakistan and Iran to respect the borders of Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, and to abandon all efforts to change these borders with force, such as Pakistan's military support for the Taliban separatists in Afghanistan, as well as Iran's support for Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'ite separatists.
The exceptionally good news for China is that by improving security for Afghanistan and Iraq, China would serve its growing economic interests in these two countries. Moreover, China would validate its hard line policies against ethnic separatism, as in Tibet and Taiwan. Furthermore, China would gain considerable international support and good will by extending greater stability to Afghanistan and Iraq. Finally, China, the US and Russia would take a giant step forward in collective security by deterring the Nazi Iran/Pakistan/Germany Axis.
Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee and was the Senior Advisor for International Economics at the Crisis Management Center of the National Security Council, 1984 - 1986. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views.
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