A Chinese official bizarrely claimed that Barack Obama should understand China’s opposition to Tibetan independence because he is a black president who understands Abraham Lincoln’s role in emancipating African Americans.
Obama should understand Chinese rule in Tibet ‘because he is black’, official says
By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
China insists that the Communist party liberated Tibetans from feudal serfdom under the Dalai Lama in 1959.
Qin Gang, the foreign ministry spokesman, said that since Mr Obama is a “black president”, the issue of slavery should resonate with him.
“He is a black president, and he understands the slavery abolition movement and Lincoln’s major significance for that movement,” said Mr Qin. “Lincoln played an incomparable role in protecting the national unity and territorial integrity of the United States.”
China’s stance was like Lincoln’s, said Mr Qin.
“Thus on this issue we hope that President Obama, more than any other foreign leader, can better, more deeply grasp China’s stance on protecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he added.
The comments from the foreign ministry came a few days before the American president is due to tour Shanghai and Beijing.
Mr Obama left America for his trip to Asia last night looking to deflect attention from falling popularity at home. A national Gallup opinion poll showed that if asked to vote in a congressional ballot today 48 per cent would choose Republican and 44 per cent Democrat.
The Chinese government is angling for Mr Obama to endorse China’s rule in Tibet publicly, and senior advisers to Mr Obama have admitted that the topic will be on the agenda during talks with Hu Jintao, the Chinese president.
Mr Obama avoided meeting the Dalai Lama when the exiled spiritual leader was in Washington in October, amid rumours that he was keen to avoid upsetting China. However, the Dalai Lama has said that they may meet after Mr Obama’s trip to China.
Pro-Tibetan independence groups immediately condemned the Foreign ministry for “failing a history test”.
Stephanie Brigden, the director of Free Tibet, said: “It is an insult for the unelected and authoritarian Chinese government to suggest that an instinctive democrat such as Abraham Lincoln would have sided with China in seeking to deny the Tibetan people their fundamental right to determine their own future.
“By trying to be clever, and attempting to liken its occupation of Tibet with Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery while preserving the Union, China has merely underlined its inability to recognise what true freedom looks like.”
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4 responses so far ↓
OverSword // November 13, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I agree with the chinese official, Lincoln was an unamerican tyrant who implemented the first draft and started a war which killed more Americans than any other in order to deny the southern states thier constitutional right to succeed from the union. Obviously the chinese are alot like Lincoln, the worst president in the history of the United States, not concerning themselves with petty thing like a peoples right to determine thier own sense of identity and form of government.
F$&k the chinese an all others who desire to micro manage other peoples deeds and thoughts.
pjwalker911 // November 13, 2009 at 6:05 pm
OverSword,
I am in agreement with you on all those points. It’s ironic that the pro-Tibet groups also side with Lincoln who was against self-determination, one of man’s fundamental rights. The Tibetans have been far more enslaved and abused by their Communist lords, than by their feudal lords, though I admit a study of Tibetan history and culture does reveal a feudal and often brutal society, not the Shangrila propagated in fanciful tales. But same could be said for most societies throughout history. In fact, I think feudalism continues in other forms throughout the world and it will even get worse as the Illuminati continues to expand their power and grip over humanity. China, by the way, would never have risen up as such a Communist/Capitalist Communitarian superpower had it not been for power elites like the Skull and Bones, SMOM, OSS, etc back in the 40s and 50s and later all the big American corporations that have sent their business there. China, the UN’s “model state” was designated to take over and that is what has happened. America can’t hold a candle to them anymore because we are in debt to our new masters.
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Charlie Bell // November 16, 2009 at 6:08 pm
The Chinese obviously do not comprehend what the true meaning of freedom is. They are taking one of the greatest American’s and they are slandering him by equating what they did in Tibet to something that he would not have even distantly approved of.
It is also interesting to see the Chinese try to rationalize and then qualify what they are doing in Tibet. Why would a communist country who supposedly detests the capitalism of democracy use one of it’s greatest representatives as an example of anything!
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