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avmoor discovered 6 weeks ago- Since the fall of the Berlin Wall commentators have sought to recast the New Russia as more progressive, compassionate, human rights friendly, and so forth. The leadership at Beijing, though apparently doing its utmost - in public - to crush all forms of opposition, has somehow been liberated from a violent and repressive past by learning to build cars, complex weapons systems, and put on a nice sports circus. But on questions of: gaining executive power by voting fraud, chronic abuse of power, and the UN's desire to limit Zimbabwe's ability to acquire weapons for use by a despot: it's just too radical to bear! From the page: "Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution to impose international sanctions on key members of Zimbabwe's government, damaging diplomatic efforts to isolate the regime. The resolution would have imposed a travel ban and asset freeze on Robert Mugabe and 13 of his cronies, plus an arms embargo on the country But although nine countries, including America, Britain and France, backed the proposals, five countries voted against, including Russia and China, which both enjoy powers of veto as permanent members of the Security Council. .... The result will be seized on by the propagandists of Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe's ruling party, who insist that Zimbabwe's economic travails - inflation is estimated at over eight million per cent - are due to Western plots, rather than Mr Mugabe's mismanagement. .... China is one of Mr Mugabe's oldest allies and arms suppliers, a link dating back to the war against Ian Smith's regime, when it backed his Zanu guerrilla movement. South Africa, Libya and Vietnam also voted against the resolution while Indonesia abstained."
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