Belarus risks being isolated from the international community unless they not only adopt democracy but given the amount of US influence a democracy under a president who obsequiously bows to Washington’s wishes. #msg-4693618
A lot of planning, work and money has gone into efforts to design a US model for promoting democracy around the world. The model's first success was notched in Serbia. Funded and organized by the US government, which deployed US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organizations (NGOs), the campaign defeated Slobodan Milosevich at the ballot box in Belgrade in 2000.
Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role in the campaign to oust Milosevich. In November last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, Miles reapplied the same method successfully. Thanks to his coaching, US-educated Saakashvili brought down Eduard Shevardnadze. When the US ambassador in BELARUS, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in Central America, notably in Nicaragua, organized a near identical campaign to try to defeat the BELARUS strongman, Alexander Lukashenko, he failed. "There will be no Kostunica in BELARUS," the BELARUS president declared, referring to the United States' Belgrade success 10 months earlier. #msg-4696890
China in vowing to further trade ties with Belarus looks to be softening the blow of censor from the West and is attempting to stop the flow of bogus democracies toward the dragon’s border.
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China vows to further trade ties with Belarus
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-14 00:40:41
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- China suggested enhancing trade ties with the Republic of Belarus, which borders Russia, by expanding cooperation in sectors such as energy, telecommunication,automobile and pharmacy, said a Chinese senior trade official.
Zhang Zhigang, Chinese vice minister of commerce made the proposal during talks with his Belarus counterpart Kulichkov Alexander Nikolaevich as both co-chairmen at the sixth meeting of a China-Belarus joint committee on trade and economic cooperation here on Monday.
Zhang suggested the two countries enhance financial cooperation,such as providing export credits, promoting trade; strengthening regional cooperation and welcoming Belarus enterprises to participate in China's develop-the-west drive and the rejuvenationof its old industrial belt in northeastern China.
He also suggested the two countries optimize trade commodity struct