Che qualcosa non torni? Chissà che anche agli osannanti Obama-boys sorga qualche dubbio ogni tanto...

(Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama)

(Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama)


So who thinks Clinton is arriving empty-handed? Obviously, there’s much about this mission that’s hidden from us, but there are a few things that we either know or can infer with near certainty.Diciamo che la domanda sorge spontanea: che cosa ha ricevuto Kim Jong-il come contropartita?
Mr Clinton travelled with John Podesta, his former chief of staff who now runs a think-tank, the Centre for American Progress, that is close to the current American president. They were greeted by festivities in what looked more like an official state visit than one by a private citizen. The lead North Korean nuclear negotiator was seen in pictures greeting the former president. The state-run news agency claimed there had been an “exhaustive conversation”.L'uomo giusto al posto giusto.
It is clear that America’s leaders should be wary of the bilateral talks that Mr Kim seeks: North Korea has a history of negotiating in bad faith. It signed a 1994 deal with the Clinton administration, only to cheat on it.
Kim Kye Gwan, North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, was on hand at the airport in Pyongyang to greet Mr. Clinton as he arrived—a clear sign Pyongyang, at least, is linking the two issues.Che vuoi che sia.
This marks a significant break with previous U.S. policy. During the last years of the Bush administration, the State Department constantly warned Tokyo’s diplomats that concerns over Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea shouldn’t interfere with initiatives to resolve the nuclear problem.
If Mr. Clinton is conducting any nuclear discussions he would be rewarding Pyongyang for jailing the two reporters and making them bargaining chips.
This matters because Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were not Pyongyang’s only hostages. In March, North Korea detained Yu Song-jin, a South Korean manager working in the Kaesong industrial zone, for criticizing Kim’s paradise. Last week, a North Korean patrol boat seized a South Korean fishing vessel that accidentally strayed into the North’s waters, and Pyongyang is now keeping the four-member crew for no good reason. North Korea may be holding 100 or more Japanese abductees and at least 1,000 South Koreans, some of them prisoners from the Korean War and others kidnapped since then. More broadly, Kim uses all his 23 million people as hostages.



Il faut parfois les convaincre un peu et remettre les pendules à l’heure de Pékin. Le chef du Parti Communiste régional, Wang Lequan, a annoncé le 15 septembre dernier une grande campagne de rééducation destinée à « renforcer l’identification à la Nation et à la culture chinoise ».

There is abundant evidence that the protesters set the city on fire, causing the casualties directly (by beating people) or indirectly (because innocents were in the buses on fire). Their actions could have reasonable motives and could be justified, but the killing of scores of innocent people is blood on their hands, and it is not pretty.Alla base delle proteste, secondo Sisci, gruppi anti-cinesi con base all'estero. Insomma la stessa versione del Politburo.

"The planners of the incident, the organisers, key members and the serious violent criminals must be severely punished according to law," it said.La legge è legge, direbbe Sisci.
Along one road ringing the capital of the western region of Xianjiang where 156 people died in riots on Sunday, The Times counted more than 30 paramilitary trucks, each followed by about two dozen men, many in black body armour, and most carrying riot shields, batons and fire arms.
In the centre of the city around People's Square, army helicopters circled overhead as hundreds more paramilitary troops marched in brigades of 20 to 30 chanting: "Defend the Motherland, defend the people."

“We wanted to do business,” Lu Sifeng, 47, the father, said Tuesday, his eyes glistening with tears as he sat smoking on his bed. “There was a calling by the government to develop the west. This place would be nothing without the Han.”Nel caso specifico ovviamente non non si può biasimare la reazione, ma sì riflettere sull'uso sapiente delle pedine (cioè delle persone) che il regime continua a fare. La Cina del XXI secolo è un luogo molto più complicato di prima: il Partito Comunista da una parte compra l'obbedienza e dall'altra castiga l'insubordinazione. La quantità di violenza totale dispiegata per mantenere la "stabilità" è inferiore rispetto al passato ma la cifra di tensione sociale aumenta esponenzialmente, così come la frattura fra etnia dominante e popolazioni minoritarie. Le nazionalità le inventò in un certo senso il maoismo, seguendo lo schema sovietico, ma oggi che il riconoscimento formale pretende un'evoluzione sostanziale, la situazione diventa impossibile da gestire per un esecutivo ancora fortemente autoritario, anche se non più totalitario.
“Of course, in recent days, we’ve been angry toward the Uighur,” Mr. Lu said. “And of course we’re scared of them.”
