from op-ed news....
"We all held our breath. TV cameras were trained on the Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations. As the "Those against?" vote was called, peace loving people watched with a sinking feeling in their stomachs as the ambassador's hand remained on his desk.
In our mind's eye we saw the warplanes of yet another coalition of white colonial powers bombing Africa, U.S. ships firing canons and missiles, Libyans being killed and maimed and radioactivity from uranium tipped missiles, shells and bullets infecting genes for generations to come producing cancerous death and inhuman like deformities in the new born.
China had given the go ahead for the military might of the now neocolonial powers to blast away at their former colony which had raised its standard of living to a level higher than nine European nations including Russia.
But why? China has extensive energy investments and construction investments in Libya, 50 major investment projects are in eastern Libya. Chinese companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars from this intervention. Last year China had $6.6 billion worth of trade with Libya, most of it in oil"......read more here
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