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xchrom

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Sat Feb 25, 2012, 09:44 AM Feb 2012

China: US, Europe have hegemonistic goals in Syria

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BEIJING (AP) -- The United States and Europe are "harboring hegemonistic ambitions" in Syria, China's state news agency said Saturday, a day after Beijing was condemned at an international conference held to find a way to halt the Syrian regime's nearly year-old suppression of an anti-government uprising.

At the Friends of Syria meeting in Tunisia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton blasted Russia and China as "despicable" for vetoing U.N. Security Council resolutions backing Arab League plans aimed at ending the conflict and condemning the crackdown by President Bashar Assad's government.

"They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian people," Clinton said.

The official Xinhua News Agency said in a commentary that China's position on Syria was balanced and that "most of the Arab countries have begun to realize that the United States and Europe are hiding a dagger behind a smile."
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China: US, Europe have hegemonistic goals in Syria (Original Post) xchrom Feb 2012 OP
No way. US and Europe are known world over for their selfless humanitarianism. Fool Count Feb 2012 #1
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1. No way. US and Europe are known world over for their selfless humanitarianism.
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 11:38 AM
Feb 2012

How dares China to question their intentions.

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