Zimbabwe: China to further friendship, mutual-beneficial cooperation with Zimbabwe
Thirdly, Hu said China also hopes to improve cooperation with Zimbabwe in the field of human resources and continue to expand cultural, educational and health cooperation to promote the development of social causes.
I am not sure - here Hu may be saying clean up your human rights act if for no other reason than it will bring international condemnation and perhaps interference which would not be to either China or Zimbabwe’s benefit.
-Am
China to further friendship, mutual-beneficial cooperation with Zimbabwe
www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-26 23:35:06
BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- China on Tuesday rolled out red carpet for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and agreed to further strengthen "traditional friendship" and "bilateral mutual-beneficial cooperation" with Zimbabwe.
During an hour-long talks with Mugabe, Chinese President Hu Jintao suggested the two sides further develop the long-term, stable and cooperative friendship in four aspects.
"Firstly, the two sides should maintain high-level visits and improve the friendly exchanges between the governments, parliaments and parties to further consolidate the political foundation for the China-Zimbabwe ties," Hu said.
Secondly, Hu suggested the two countries expand trade and economic cooperation and seek win-win results through mutual-beneficial cooperation to achieve common development. He also hoped the two will actively search for new ways to expand bilateral trade and fully implement the contacted cooperative projects. Hu promised that China will continue to encourage and support the mutual-beneficial cooperation between companies of thetwo countries.
Thirdly, Hu said China also hopes to improve cooperation with Zimbabwe in the field of human resources and continue to expand cultural, educational and health cooperation to promote the development of social causes.
Fourthly, Hu suggested China and Zimbabwe improve coordination and cooperation in international and regional affairs.
In response, Mugabe said it is very important to further promote Zimbabwe-China ties in the new century since cooperation between the two countries has covered all areas.
He said Zimbabwe will fully implement the cooperative agreements reached between the two countries to boost pragmatic cooperation in the political, economic, cultural, educational and health areas.
China and Zimbabwe forged full diplomatic ties in 1980. Hu saidChina's relations with Zimbabwe have grown smoothly over the past years.
He said China appreciates Zimbabwe's firm adherence to the one-China policy and its support to China's efforts to realize national reunification.
"It has been well established that China and Zimbabwe are sincere friends and trustworthy partners," Hu said.
Mugabe said Zimbabwe will never forget China's "great" support for Zimbabwe's struggle for national independence and endeavor to develop its national economy.
He also reiterated that his government will firmly abide by theone-China policy.
On China-Africa relations, Hu said China attaches great importance to its unity and cooperation with the African countries.
He said the China-Africa Cooperation Forum has become an effective mechanism for the two parties to conduct dialogue and pragmatic cooperation.
He said China is willing to join with all African countries to host the new ministerial meeting under the China-Africa Cooperation Forum next year and turn it into a success.
Mugabe said China is Africa's sincere friend and Zimbabwe values the important role of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. He said Zimbabwe is willing to join with China to improve China-Africa partnership to safeguard the rights and interests of the developing nations and promote common development.
After the talks between the two leaders, Chinese and Zimbabweanofficials signed several documents including an economic and technological cooperation agreement between the two governments.
Mugabe started a week-long state visit to China on Saturday evening, as guest of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
During his stay in China, Mugabe will also meet with Chinese top lawmaker Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Enditem
I know, I really know why China has embraced Zimbabwe and what they are getting and expect to get out of the relationship. But something tells me that a small part of this, like the honorary professor thing, Hu did to piss Bush off.
Hu is laying it on way too thick. 'Professor Mugabe' - got a nice ring to it. vbg
Edit: It would be a harbinger of other difficulties to come if its traditional passivity in the council - where its habit is to abstain rather than wield its veto - were to give way to more active defence of the indefensible.
China’s days of abstaining have come to an end, IMO. I would include Iran with Darfur and Zimbabwe.
-Am
Leader Thursday July 28, 2005 The Guardian
Robert Mugabe is having a whale of a time on his state visit to China. The Zimbabwean president has been made an honorary professor and praised by Hu Jintao, the prime minister, as "a familiar and much respected old friend of the Chinese people". This is uncomfortable for the 700,000 Zimbabweans who have been made homeless in massive "slum clearance" programmes, the United Nations, and much of the rest of the world - apart, most significantly, from neighbouring South Africa - who see Mr Mugabe as a pariah who should be shunned rather than given the red carpet treatment he is getting in Beijing.
If this welcome was purely ceremonial it might matter less. But a new trade agreement with China and promises of soft loans and investment will help Mr Mugabe with his policy of "looking east" - adopted because the west has finally run out of patience with him. Both the EU and the US have imposed limited sanctions targeting the Zanu-PF regime because of its land seizures, rigged elections and other human rights abuses. The International Monetary Fund is to decide soon whether or not to axe Zimbabwe from its list of eligible borrowers. China makes much of its "peaceful rise", despite sabre-rattling over Taiwan, but in this case it is using its growing economic clout to give succour to a regime which does not deserve it. And it is part of a wider strategy. China says little about its pursuit of African markets for its goods and supplies of rare minerals but regularly flaunts its "principled" refusal to intervene in Zimbabwe's internal affairs - just as it rejects outsiders' interference in its own. And this is just days after the UN angrily condemned the "urban resettlement" scheme - seen as a transparent attempt to crush a stronghold of the opposition MDC, in which more than 220,000 children have lost their homes in two months. Unicef reports children dying of easily treatable respiratory infections and of women being forced to give birth in the open.
Yesterday Professor Mugabe was emboldened to claim that Beijing would now back Zimbabwe in preventing the matter from being formally debated in the UN security council, as Britain and the US are rightly insisting it should. China has already played a role in blocking council action on the mass killings in Darfur because of its oil interests in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa. It would be a harbinger of other difficulties to come if its traditional passivity in the council - where its habit is to abstain rather than wield its veto - were to give way to more active defence of the indefensible.
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