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Is Tony Blair still relevant? Even after being butt of all jokes he has found a way to cash in....
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What about United States relationship with Saudi Arabia?
Remember how Obama cut short his visit to India to kowtow to the new Saudi Arabia king?
Attacks on Britain ‘kowtowing’ to China merely sour grapes
2015-10-17 0:08:01
The Washington Post on Wednesday ran a commentary by its China bureau chief Simon Denyer, which accused Britain, as its headline suggested, of "bending over backward to prove its friendship to China."
What sour grapes!
The article criticized the British government as having been "working overtime to ingratiate itself with Beijing" and for "complete kowtowing to the Chinese dictatorship." The article also mocked British Chancellor George Osborne for envisioning a "golden relationship" between China and the UK.
The British newspaper The Times also ran an article blasting China's "despotism," and demanded that the British government should raise the human rights issue when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Britain next week.
Apparently the concept of a "golden era" between the two countries has made some people uncomfortable. The former imperial power is placing much of its future on China. This has hurt the twisted dignity of those who still consider the West the center of the world.
Britain is preparing the highest-level treatment for the visiting of Xi, which is seen as a sign of London's new policy of intensifying Sino-UK cooperation. The national interests of Britain are the foundation of this policy. The country, which has rich memory of its proud past, is eager to keep up with the times. As a result, British Prime Minister David Cameron or Osborne will not blink in front of the "human rights fighters."
When those people attacked China's human rights record, many do not really know what they are talking about. They simply shouted slogans and quoted some of the Chinese "dissidents," who describe a picture that are out of pace with the real social momentum in China.
Hundreds of millions of people have shrugged off poverty since China's reform and opening-up began over three decades ago. People who could barely afford to buy a bicycle now are traveling around the world. Why did the critics turn a blind eye to all these?
Many Western politicians are clear that the debate over China's human rights is more a game of Western ideology, which is not realistic for China. Some of the politicians do touch on human rights issues under media pressures, but they know when to stop, in order not to let the debate hinder rational China policies.
What will the ideological differences mean for China and the West? The answer will affect the international relations of the 21 century.
China and Britain are breaking outdated mind-sets and exploring new highs in their cooperation. Such efforts will dwarf the disturbances under the guise of justice.
LONDON, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Britain intends to become the best western partner of China and is helping build the relationship between China and the West as a whole, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.
Speaking of Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit to Britain, Blair told Xinhua in a recent interview: "I expect President Xi's visit will strengthen the relationships still further between Britain and China at the political level, at the economic level and at the people-to-people level."
"I think this is really building on what has happened over these past ten years, looking forward to the next ten, and seeing that this relationship between Britain and China is vitally important for both countries," he said.
Blair, a British Labour Party politician, served as Britain's Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007. He was the British head of government hosting China's then Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao during their state visits to Britain in 1999 and 2005 respectively.
It was also under Blair's premiership that Britain and China established their comprehensive strategic partnership in 2004.
"I started strengthening the partnership with China, the present prime minister (David Cameron) is strengthening it still further. So there is consistency and agreement across the political spectrum in the UK that China's relationship with Britain matters," he said.
Noting that most people in Britain support a strong relationship with China, the former prime minister stressed that Britain is "enthusiastic about developing the ties with China even further and making sure that next decade is a golden decade."
In the interview, Blair expressed the hope that Britain and China could cooperate in areas of infrastructure and finance.
"Britain urgently needs to renew its infrastructure -- power generation, things like nuclear power, and its rail network, and China has got the expertise and capital to help us. So this is very much win-win for both countries," he explained, adding that he was "looking forward to this partnership."
Apart from infrastructure, Blair said, Britain and China can both benefit from cooperation in the financial sector as well.
"We've got great opportunity to use London as a financial center that helps in the popularization, if you like, of the RMB (the Chinese yuan), and allows Britain to issue Chinese government bonds here to make sure that we are actually cooperating at the financial level," he said.
"We've joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which is important. It's got a great role to play. I was pleased that Britain decided to join it," he added.
Talking about Britain's role in EU-China relations, Blair said: "Britain is also a key player in Europe, and we've got good relationship with China. So Britain can play a role facilitating the Chinese relationship with Europe as a whole."
He argued that the strength of Britain's trade relationship with China and, increasingly, the strength of its people-to-people relationship with China offer his country the chance to help in the general European relationship.
"We intend in Britain to make ourselves the western partner for China that both understands China and is also helping build the relationship between China and the West that is so important," he said.
Looking into China's future, Blair voiced optimism over China's ability to tackle its challenges and move ahead.
"China has always got enormous challenges because of its size, because of its rapid pace of its progress. When you roll back 30 years, and you compare China then and China now, it's a transformed country," he said.
"But I think the Chinese leadership has got the strength and determination and the capability of overcoming these challenges, and it is very much in our interests that China remains stable, that China evolves in a good and effective way for the Chinese people and for the outside world," he concluded.
Interview: Tony Blair says Britain intends to be "best western partner" of China - Xinhua | English.news.cn
It's pretty good. You won't eat it too often because your heart will not like it.
Using human rights as an issue with China is so 1992, LOL. I am writing to the propaganda writers in Washington Post urging them to think of something more fresh, more 21st century
beheading people is a good deterrent against serious crimes. I wish they had that in China.Saudi is all about sponsoring terrorists all over the world. Saudi use head chopping, stoning whipping as punishment, even for women.
If there is one country that is all about the power of money, Saudi Arabia is the one. Even Obama, leader of the most powerful country in the world kowtow to its King.
So human rights my foot. You must Tell that to the Washington Post too.
Barack Obama heads to Saudi Arabia to pay respects and meet new king | US news | The Guardian
Using human rights as an issue with China is so 1992, LOL. I am writing to the propaganda writers in Washington Post urging them to think of something more fresh, more 21st century