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[Ringo]

RUSSIA , CHINA TEAM TO BALANCE ‘WORLD DOMINANCE’ BY UNITED STATES

Russian President Yeltsin is scheduled to arrive in Beijing tomorrow for talks aimed at promoting a “strategic partnership” with China to balance what both countries see as “global domination by the United States.”

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BEIJING, December 7 (Itar-Tass) - A high-level source in the Russian delegation, who made preparations for Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s trip to the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that, following an informal meeting between President Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the PRC, opening here on December 9, Russia and China intend to act jointly in the efforts to ensure security and stability in the world.

Anybody surprised?

BTW, any talk of NATO going into Chechyna yet?

[Sake_Samurai]

Not, surprised - China and Russia have ancient relationship that we can barely comprehend. BUT. They have such differences! Strategic partnership, my ass!

NATO has discussed going into Chechnya, but it ain’t going to happen. Russia is a great, proud nation with much global clout. I do think their stance with China is nothing but political maneuvering.

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Hell is Other People.

[Surgoshan]

I believe that the phrase “Strategic Partnership” is the new catchword for “working military alliance”. In other words, hold on to your ass.

[David_B]

Hey, if Russia doesn’t want any part of the US’s “dominance,” I guess we shouldn’t give them any more economic aid…

[Yossarian]

When it’s a nation we can easily beat up on, the crime is “ethnic cleansing”, and… well, a nation’s gotta do whata nations’s gotta do (said in a bad John Wayne accent).

Russia or China? Nations with nukes and clout? Nation’s we’d like to extend free trade to? Why, they’re just taking care of a little family bidness there in Chechnya… really, no concern of ours at all. “Ethnic Cleansing?” Absolutely not!

Remember, NATO’s new job is to slap around pip-squeaks, not “friends”!

[Ringo]

An update on the revivification of the Cold War:

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY, DECEMBER 09, 1999 10:52:08 ET XXXXX

YELTSIN BLASTS CLINTON: REMEMBER, WE HAVE NUKES!

A cold war of words: Russian President Boris Yeltsin in China on Thursday blasted U.S. President Bill Clinton over attempts “to put pressure on Russia” over Chechnya, noting that Moscow has a nuclear potential.

“Bill Clinton permitted himself yesterday to forget by a second, by a minute, by half-a-minute what Russia means and that Russia has a complete arsenal of nuclear weapons,” said Yeltsin in Beijing.

“We shall dictate the world how to live rather than Mr. Clinton alone.”

The Chechen problem is Russia’s internal matter, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue added.

GEKHI-CHU, Russia (Reuters) - ANGRY YELTSIN FLAUNTS NUCLEAR ARSENAL

Yeltsin, on a trip to China, flaunted Russia’s nuclear missiles in an angry reply.

“Clinton permitted himself to put pressure on Russia,” he told reporters in his trademark slow, deliberate growl.

“It seems…he has forgotten Russia has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons. He has forgotten about that. Therefore he decided to play with his muscles, as they say.”

[John_Corrado]

“It seems…he has forgotten Russia has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons. He has forgotten about that. Therefore he decided to play with his muscles, as they say.”

Geez, isn’t that what got him into trouble last year?

Ahem.

Anyways- did y’all see the news this morning about someone from the Russian embassy being arrested for trying to spy upon the State Department?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37677-1999Dec9.html

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JMCJ

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