AI
Monday, August 02, 2004 2:11:45 AM
Kyrgyzstan President Sold to China.
The selling of Kyrgyzstan seems a fairly reasonable assumption.
China is outmaneuvering Washington every step of the way. We do not appear to have the intelligence to stop China. The Chinese are capable of planning; Washington as seen by our most recent fiasco in Iraq is not. This is the result. China is beating us and they are doing it without being dragged into a life draining quagmire.
Kyrgyzstan is strategic in that it borders China and hosts both American and Russian bases. Putin would like to get rid of the American military base Bishkek-Manas in Kyrgyzstan but he now has bigger problems. China has placed 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. In Russia's Far East the Chinese make about eight percent of the six million strong population. It is 480,000 people. The Russian population is gradually becoming the minority as the problem of Chinese emigration is becoming more serious for Russia.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/358/13413_chinese.html
-Am
President of Kyrgyzstan sold himself out to the Chinese?
Central Asia is full of rumors. They say that President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev signed a secret deal with China, and now neither the US nor Russia can get him replaced for a man that they would want. And such attempts have already been made. It happened more than once. Both Washington and Moscow, for example, are insisting that the Kyrgyz President should not run at the elections for the fourth time.
Back in the month of April during a private conversation the US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Steven Young once again reminded Akaev about the need to leave the post of the head of the state and provide fair elections in the country. They say that Akaev answered with disappointment:
«You Americans are so strange, you are making me choose between stability and democracy!»
Before the summit in Tashkent and Astana Vladimir Putin called Kyrgyz President to the Kremlin and directly told him about the need to transfer the power to one promising (for Russia) Kyrgyz politician, whom Askar Akaev cannot stand. Eyewitnesses reported that Askaev was very nervous during that conversation.
The opposition claims that after all of these proposals made by Moscow and Washington, President of Kyrgyzstan started relying on China once and for all. Presumably, Beijing offered Akaev good protection in exchange for accepting 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. China keeps its promises. Akaev keeps his promises too.
No one knows for sure how true this information is. But some facts, which are being discussed in Central Asian oppositional press are making us think about it.
For example, there was a time when Akaev appointed diplomat Muratbek Imanaliev as Foreign Minister. Allegedly, he has been successfully working for the Chinese and has been their agent for quite a while. He is the one who gave China 125,000 hectares of the most valuable Kyrgyz land with glaciers full of fresh water and with a uniquely designed border outpost, which allows one soldier to have many thousand of enemy troops at gunpoint and under fire.
Today the Kyrgyz leader is planning to rent pieces of land (about 500 to 1,000 hectares each) all across Kyrgyzstan’s territories to the Chinese for 99 years for all sorts of business projects. In Akaev’s opinion, Chinese farmers may become the future motive force of the country’s agrarian sector.
The opposition claims that the Chinese are planning to introduce their internal regime in the rented enclaves, set up passport control at the entrances and let the people living there have as many children as their hearts and their bodies desire (contrary to the Chinese birth policies).
According to the mutual agreement between Akaev and China, these rented zones will become loopholes for the Chinese to penetrate into all other territories of Kyrgyzstan. Officially China already rented 800 hectares on the southern shore of Issyk Kul Lake (some reports say they were allotted about 1,200 hectares).
Local people are not allowed in there. Chinese patrol is guarding this section and checkpoints are now being set up. Not too long ago the Chinese brutally beat a 22-year-old local resident Nurmat A., who attempted to graze his cattle on the land rented by the Chinese. The parents, who started a scandal, were intimidated by the police and were paid a little compensation.
In the spring of 2000 in Osha Province, Kyrgyzstan, agents of Uzbek secret services, freely operating on Kyrgyzstan’s soil, abducted someone named Bakhtiar K., ethnic Uigur, and brought him out of the country. Bakhtiar K. was suspected in cooperating with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). During the interrogations, which involved severe tortures, Uzbek agents found out that Bakhtiar K. was really working for Chinese intelligence services and his assignment was to collect information about anti-Chinese activities among underground Muslim organizations operating in Southern Kyrgyzstan.
Bakhtiar K. also said that within the next few years the Chinese authorities are going to send about 100,000 Chinese merchants and peasants, and his duties included collecting information about most suitable areas for their future settlements. When the proper letter reached Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, he immediately convened an emergency meeting, where a decision was made to dispatch additional troops to be permanently stationed in the Fergana Valley, as far as the Kyrgyz border. This is the reason why Uzbekistan’s authorities are now reinforcing and moving Uzbek frontier posts even into the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The process of defusing the mines in some border areas is now being protracted and so is the solution of the problem of water and power supply.
The opposition claims that Akaev needs Chinese immigrants very badly. They will allow him to retain his power and they will be paying their taxes on time and fulfilling orders worth of many millions without asking any unnecessary questions.
Beijing in turn is ready to give Akaev any support as far as trying to convince the US and Russia to give the chance to the first Kyrgyz President to quietly run the country until 2011. China is now growing and it has its own pressure factors to put on Russia and America.
Chinese leadership promised Akayev to make up for the losses from the reduction of foreign financial aid, which depends on the moods in Washington. -- Huge profits will be made from the transits on the Kyrgyz-Chinese railroad, which China will start building in 2005.
The opposition claims that all Akaev’s actions are aimed at retaining his personal power and this is exactly why he allied himself with China. But the logic of the opposition is not too clear: why should Akaev not pick the Chinese protection the same way other Central Asian countries have chosen the protection of Russia or the US? Why would the Chinese be any worse than, say, Americans, who are protecting murderer and maniac Islam Karimov (president of Uzbekistan), or Russians, who are supporting the notorious drug trafficker and mobster Imomali Rahmonov (leader of Tajikistan)?
Asker from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
For Kavkaz-Center
2004-08-01 12:40:03
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=3042
The selling of Kyrgyzstan seems a fairly reasonable assumption.
China is outmaneuvering Washington every step of the way. We do not appear to have the intelligence to stop China. The Chinese are capable of planning; Washington as seen by our most recent fiasco in Iraq is not. This is the result. China is beating us and they are doing it without being dragged into a life draining quagmire.
Kyrgyzstan is strategic in that it borders China and hosts both American and Russian bases. Putin would like to get rid of the American military base Bishkek-Manas in Kyrgyzstan but he now has bigger problems. China has placed 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. In Russia's Far East the Chinese make about eight percent of the six million strong population. It is 480,000 people. The Russian population is gradually becoming the minority as the problem of Chinese emigration is becoming more serious for Russia.
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/358/13413_chinese.html
-Am
President of Kyrgyzstan sold himself out to the Chinese?
Central Asia is full of rumors. They say that President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev signed a secret deal with China, and now neither the US nor Russia can get him replaced for a man that they would want. And such attempts have already been made. It happened more than once. Both Washington and Moscow, for example, are insisting that the Kyrgyz President should not run at the elections for the fourth time.
Back in the month of April during a private conversation the US Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Steven Young once again reminded Akaev about the need to leave the post of the head of the state and provide fair elections in the country. They say that Akaev answered with disappointment:
«You Americans are so strange, you are making me choose between stability and democracy!»
Before the summit in Tashkent and Astana Vladimir Putin called Kyrgyz President to the Kremlin and directly told him about the need to transfer the power to one promising (for Russia) Kyrgyz politician, whom Askar Akaev cannot stand. Eyewitnesses reported that Askaev was very nervous during that conversation.
The opposition claims that after all of these proposals made by Moscow and Washington, President of Kyrgyzstan started relying on China once and for all. Presumably, Beijing offered Akaev good protection in exchange for accepting 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. China keeps its promises. Akaev keeps his promises too.
No one knows for sure how true this information is. But some facts, which are being discussed in Central Asian oppositional press are making us think about it.
For example, there was a time when Akaev appointed diplomat Muratbek Imanaliev as Foreign Minister. Allegedly, he has been successfully working for the Chinese and has been their agent for quite a while. He is the one who gave China 125,000 hectares of the most valuable Kyrgyz land with glaciers full of fresh water and with a uniquely designed border outpost, which allows one soldier to have many thousand of enemy troops at gunpoint and under fire.
Today the Kyrgyz leader is planning to rent pieces of land (about 500 to 1,000 hectares each) all across Kyrgyzstan’s territories to the Chinese for 99 years for all sorts of business projects. In Akaev’s opinion, Chinese farmers may become the future motive force of the country’s agrarian sector.
The opposition claims that the Chinese are planning to introduce their internal regime in the rented enclaves, set up passport control at the entrances and let the people living there have as many children as their hearts and their bodies desire (contrary to the Chinese birth policies).
According to the mutual agreement between Akaev and China, these rented zones will become loopholes for the Chinese to penetrate into all other territories of Kyrgyzstan. Officially China already rented 800 hectares on the southern shore of Issyk Kul Lake (some reports say they were allotted about 1,200 hectares).
Local people are not allowed in there. Chinese patrol is guarding this section and checkpoints are now being set up. Not too long ago the Chinese brutally beat a 22-year-old local resident Nurmat A., who attempted to graze his cattle on the land rented by the Chinese. The parents, who started a scandal, were intimidated by the police and were paid a little compensation.
In the spring of 2000 in Osha Province, Kyrgyzstan, agents of Uzbek secret services, freely operating on Kyrgyzstan’s soil, abducted someone named Bakhtiar K., ethnic Uigur, and brought him out of the country. Bakhtiar K. was suspected in cooperating with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). During the interrogations, which involved severe tortures, Uzbek agents found out that Bakhtiar K. was really working for Chinese intelligence services and his assignment was to collect information about anti-Chinese activities among underground Muslim organizations operating in Southern Kyrgyzstan.
Bakhtiar K. also said that within the next few years the Chinese authorities are going to send about 100,000 Chinese merchants and peasants, and his duties included collecting information about most suitable areas for their future settlements. When the proper letter reached Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, he immediately convened an emergency meeting, where a decision was made to dispatch additional troops to be permanently stationed in the Fergana Valley, as far as the Kyrgyz border. This is the reason why Uzbekistan’s authorities are now reinforcing and moving Uzbek frontier posts even into the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The process of defusing the mines in some border areas is now being protracted and so is the solution of the problem of water and power supply.
The opposition claims that Akaev needs Chinese immigrants very badly. They will allow him to retain his power and they will be paying their taxes on time and fulfilling orders worth of many millions without asking any unnecessary questions.
Beijing in turn is ready to give Akaev any support as far as trying to convince the US and Russia to give the chance to the first Kyrgyz President to quietly run the country until 2011. China is now growing and it has its own pressure factors to put on Russia and America.
Chinese leadership promised Akayev to make up for the losses from the reduction of foreign financial aid, which depends on the moods in Washington. -- Huge profits will be made from the transits on the Kyrgyz-Chinese railroad, which China will start building in 2005.
The opposition claims that all Akaev’s actions are aimed at retaining his personal power and this is exactly why he allied himself with China. But the logic of the opposition is not too clear: why should Akaev not pick the Chinese protection the same way other Central Asian countries have chosen the protection of Russia or the US? Why would the Chinese be any worse than, say, Americans, who are protecting murderer and maniac Islam Karimov (president of Uzbekistan), or Russians, who are supporting the notorious drug trafficker and mobster Imomali Rahmonov (leader of Tajikistan)?
Asker from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
For Kavkaz-Center
2004-08-01 12:40:03
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=3042
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