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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on October 12, 2010, 04:27:02 AM
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Timing of waiver questioned by critics
President Obama issued a waiver loosening Tiananmen arms sanctions for C-130 military transports for China a day after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Chinese dissident who dedicated the prize this past weekend to the victims of the 1989 crackdown.
Chinese state-run news media on Monday hailed the White House waiver announcement as a sign Washington is moving to lift the 11-year-old arms embargo.
However, White House National Security Council spokesman Michael Hammer said the waiver issued on Saturday will not allow C-130s sales. "Under this announcement, we are not selling any aircraft to anyone," he stated in an e-mail.
Mr. Obama's letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the waiver states that it is lifting a ban on "temporary munitions export licenses" for C-130s that currently is banned by the fiscal 1990 Foreign Relations Act. The law bars sales to China of "any defense item on the U.S. Munitions Control list" unless "the president makes a report" waiving the restriction.
Mr. Hammer said the waiver is intended to assist companies in Southeast Asia that use C-130s for cleaning up oil spills. The waiver will permit C-130s to land in China to refuel, or take on chemicals used in dispersing oil spills, after first obtaining a U.S. export license, he said.
Sharon Hom, executive director of Human Rights in China, said the lack of any urgent oil spill emergency and the timing of the waiver so close to the Nobel award "sends a mixed signal to the Chinese leadership and undercuts President Obama's call for Liu Xiaobo's release, especially in light of the June 4 genesis of the U.S. export ban."
The waiver announcement and China's view of it also raised concerns among some specialists who view it as a step by the Obama administration toward eventually lifting the arms embargo.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/11/obama-loosens-sanctions-on-c-130s-to-china/
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The Messiah is a moron. That is all.
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Wasn't Gates just in SE Asia this past week to "calm the fears of an aggressive China??????????"
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Bowing to our enemies once more.
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The Messiah is a moron. That is all.
That is enough.
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This after a report comes out saying the younger Chinese leaders consider the USA their major enemy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/asia/12beijing.html?_r=2&hp
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Bowing to our enemies once more.
Yes he is. That anti-America goon. :censored:
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Wasn't Gates just in SE Asia this past week to "calm the fears of an aggressive China??????????"
Yes he was and the media over there are tying the two together.
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This after a report comes out saying the younger Chinese leaders consider the USA their major enemy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/asia/12beijing.html?_r=2&hp
Followed by the fact that the Government just arrested the wife of the Chinese gentleman that won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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This after a report comes out saying the younger Chinese leaders consider the USA their major enemy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/asia/12beijing.html?_r=2&hp
Well, goodness, we can't have that. Better make them happy and loosen sanctions! America's value rests in how the rest of the world perceives her, didn't you know?
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My thoughts on this one :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :censored: :hammer: This WH is evil.
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My thoughts on this one :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :censored: :hammer: This WH is evil.
Caliph Barry is just representative of the rest of the skull bashers of the Religion of PeaceTM.
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Caliph Barry is just representative of the rest of the skull bashers of the Religion of PeaceTM.
All praises be upon him! :bird:
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All praises piss be upon him! :bird:
Fixed. :II:
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Shit might as well sell them the B-52;s we have left over in the Boneyard while he's at it.
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My thoughts on this one :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :censored: :hammer: This WH is evil.
Because we have an anti-American fool running the Country. :censored: