wavingrl
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- Nov 14, 2012
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This can't be good--
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/w...ht-china-finds-limits-to-its-powers.html?_r=0
<Malaysia has been keeping other nations, including China, at a distance, to the frustration of officials here, according to political observers. That tension is reflected in the frequent condemnations of Malaysia that have appeared in the Chinese state news media. China is out of its comfort zone, no longer in the position of strength from which it usually deals with smaller Asian nations, including Malaysia.
The two countries have for decades maintained strong economic ties, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, promised closer economic and military cooperation on a visit to Malaysia last October. At the same time, China has not been shy about pressing Malaysia on a range of delicate issues — in January, it sent a naval patrol to a reef in the South China Sea that is claimed by Malaysia; in 2012, it welcomed Malaysia’s deportation of six ethnic Uighurs who had fled from China.
Now, Chinese officials find themselves desperately prodding Malaysia to share information, to allow China a hand in the investigation and to placate the irate Chinese families who demand answers daily.
“If you don’t push them, they won’t move,” Zhu Zhenming, a scholar of Southeast Asia at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, said about the Malaysian authorities. “It’s mostly to do with their administrative management capabilities, but also their culture.”
He added that Malaysia was “too lacking” when it came to “dealing with disaster management” — “not because they don’t want to do it, but because they cannot.”>
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Meanwhile--it sounds like Putin is on the march--take more of Ukraine. No doubt that things are going to get worse there. 'Nationalism'--bring back the USSR--Cold War--that seems shortsighted. How much longer until 'somebody'--somewhere just pushes a button and blows the rest of us into eternity? Something that I try not to think about.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/w...ht-china-finds-limits-to-its-powers.html?_r=0
<Malaysia has been keeping other nations, including China, at a distance, to the frustration of officials here, according to political observers. That tension is reflected in the frequent condemnations of Malaysia that have appeared in the Chinese state news media. China is out of its comfort zone, no longer in the position of strength from which it usually deals with smaller Asian nations, including Malaysia.
The two countries have for decades maintained strong economic ties, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, promised closer economic and military cooperation on a visit to Malaysia last October. At the same time, China has not been shy about pressing Malaysia on a range of delicate issues — in January, it sent a naval patrol to a reef in the South China Sea that is claimed by Malaysia; in 2012, it welcomed Malaysia’s deportation of six ethnic Uighurs who had fled from China.
Now, Chinese officials find themselves desperately prodding Malaysia to share information, to allow China a hand in the investigation and to placate the irate Chinese families who demand answers daily.
“If you don’t push them, they won’t move,” Zhu Zhenming, a scholar of Southeast Asia at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, said about the Malaysian authorities. “It’s mostly to do with their administrative management capabilities, but also their culture.”
He added that Malaysia was “too lacking” when it came to “dealing with disaster management” — “not because they don’t want to do it, but because they cannot.”>
~~~~~
Meanwhile--it sounds like Putin is on the march--take more of Ukraine. No doubt that things are going to get worse there. 'Nationalism'--bring back the USSR--Cold War--that seems shortsighted. How much longer until 'somebody'--somewhere just pushes a button and blows the rest of us into eternity? Something that I try not to think about.
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