MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Beijing thanks Argentina for protecting Chinese-owned stores during recent riots
China expressed appreciation on Monday for Argentina's efforts to handle recent looting and damage to supermarkets owned by overseas Chinese. Beijing last week urged Buenos Aires to protect Chinese citizen's security and interests after one Chinese was killed in recent riots and looting. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBut they didn't ... Some poor sod was burnt to death in his store in Glew for fending off looters .
Dec 17th, 2013 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina consider that a warning
Dec 17th, 2013 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good old china,
Dec 17th, 2013 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They want Argentina to succeed,
They want contact,
They even want to be friendly,
After all, if you intend future takeovers of everything that moves,
It is wise to butter up the victim, is it not .lol
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Yawn
Dec 17th, 2013 - 10:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Dec 18th, 2013 - 04:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not shocking it happened in an English-founded town: Glew.
So now it was the English what did it, what a pathetic excuse!
Dec 18th, 2013 - 06:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Glew is merely named after an English railway engineer, like a lot of the former Great Southern Railway ( now FC Roca ) stations ( Banfield, Temperley , Longchamps ) It's not an english founded town at all .
Dec 18th, 2013 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Next station along from Temperley and near Glew ?
TURDERA
Says it all really .....
Chau turko .
@5 Do you enjoy the humiliation?
Dec 18th, 2013 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Dec 18th, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And who killed the Brazilian in the London U?
@9 A policeman , in a case of mistaken identity .
Dec 18th, 2013 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's your point ? What has it got to do with chinese immigrants being burnt to death by looters in Argentina ?
Hey, it was a mistake...
Dec 18th, 2013 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These were NOT thanks that the Chinese were meting out, they were warnings.
Dec 18th, 2013 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina needs to take extreme care from now on.
The Chinese were seemingly specifically targeted. K's are characteristically xenophobic.
Dec 18th, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It think their statement had a twist of irony saying “If you don't protect us with your police, there will be consequences.” Likely economic.
What's the old saying? You can always tell a person from the friends he keeps!
Dec 18th, 2013 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0China, inscrutable you may be, but beware!
I don't know if they show “ V ” in Argentina , but if they do , I suggest all argies watch it . The spaceship over the city is an allegory of the ever growing number of chinese cruisers on “ goodwill ” visits to BA .
Dec 19th, 2013 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0The chinese are not investing billions in your infrastructure out of friendship , they have come to rape the place .
If you are still taught in schools that the Roca/Runciman pact was harsh , it was positively benign compared to the deals being signed with Chevron over oil and the chinese over grain .
The next govt won't be able to repeal these deals either .
Well we know who is friends with whom........
Dec 19th, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Has anybody yet researched just how much of Argentina's top grade land is now owned by companies fronting for Chinese interests? Or other foreign interests.
Dec 19th, 2013 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I warned about this development a couple of years ago before the Sale of Land legislation came in so weak that even an Argentinian child could circumvent it.
What was it? 10% of land in each region (or was it 30%?)... that included the vast uncultivatable tracts, where 10-30% would take all good land many times over.
UP #15 is right; but it's not your women you should be afraid for, it's your land under your feet. 'The Good Earth', as Pearl Buck/Sai Zhenzhu says.
China is preferable to Europeans. Sure.
Dec 19th, 2013 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Usurping Pirate (#15)
Dec 20th, 2013 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'I don't know if they show “ V ” in Argentina , ... The allegory of Chinese 'goodwill visits' to BA .
The Chinese ... have come to rape the place'.
Nice one, UP.
I must admit to not spotting the appropriateness of the 'V' allegory to Argentina wrt China - most remiss of me; must be my age.
But I guess it holds good for all nations held in thrall by colonising countries over the history of 'civilisation'.
Reminiscent of the 1950s Sci Fi B movies out of Hollywood - these had the allegorical sub-text of Communists being the 'invaders' taking over the 'American Way Of Life' and the mind of its people.
My favourite of all time was the remake of Invasion of the Body-Snatchers - maybe because of Donald Sutherland, who I greatly respected as a (laconic) actor.
McCarthy's anti-communist campaign in the US squashed many of the Left - both real and imagined. ['McCarthyism' today means 'the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence' (Wiki).]
'V' is the present generation's Bodysnatchers - re-worked with gung-ho gusto in Independence Day.
But perhaps it is my long life that gives me the perspective to see when it is really happening before my very eyes.
And we know why it is happening - giant populations need giant resources; China will need most of the whole world's resources if it remains successful and brings its vast peoples into a 'Western middle class' life-style.
Once sufficient people see with clear sight that China is viewing the whole world as its bailiwick, we may see the true relevance of 'V'
- for both South Americans and Europeans alike.
Geoff
Dec 21st, 2013 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then maybe Europe and USA should start showing more respect and treat the rest of the world as their equals instead of doing what they do today.
Because you can accuse China of many things, and you are probably right, but all your accusations fits Europe and USA perfectly, with the difference that the Chinese actually pay for the stuff they want...
The propaganda (for that is what we're talking about) operates outside the sphere of 'respect'.
Dec 21st, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA needed a conceptual enemy in Russia, as well as reminding the people that the nuclear arms build-up could kill us all 20 times over was a dangerous reality. The rejection and personification of 'socialism' (the 'bogeyman') continues there to this day.
The 'yellow hordes' became their reality of their Korean and Vietnam wars.
But, as for 'Respect',
we just have to see today's EU-Mercosur being negotiated on the basis of ostensible equality;
we observe the Bali trade agreements (son-of-Dohar) engaging with over a hundred smaller nation;
we see the United Nation being used by the very powerful nations to enable (frequently wrong-headed) 'humanitarian' interventions.
We even see the indulgent attitudes of the powerful nations wrt UNC24!
No, these are not the days of Mme. Butterfly's Pinkerton ... especially post-Bush!
I don't think you should confuse the UK with 'Europe' (or Europe with the EU). And I am amazed by the tolerant attitude of the UK to the rhetoric and actions of Argentina wrt TFI and to Spain wrt Gibraltar.
Respect, tolerance, even indulgence - I see a lot of it.
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