A Tanzanian columnist said Friday that he suspected there is a hidden agenda against China behind the Tibet issue, which has been used by some to disrupt the ongoing Olympic torch relay.
"I think the idea here is to weaken it (China), nip it in the bud, so that it does not emerge as an alternative power to challenge the unipolar disposition of the world," said Makwaia wa Kuhenga, who is also a well-known TV talk show host, in a Daily News' editorial.
The columnist, author of three books on Tanzanian politics, said that if each country, especially the leading "democracies" of the world, was to be measured against the same benchmark, people will just see that some of these countries have far worse human rights charges to answer.
He cited the Hurricane Katrina as an example.
"What did we see when Hurricane Katrina hit some parts of one of these countries? As a superpower with unequalled military and economic might, which is able to mobilize in less than 48 hours its army for an invasion thousands of miles away, it was, however, unable to mobilize with equal speed simple humanitarian support to its black citizenry within the same country."
"The same power keeps in solitary confinement without trial hundreds of people from different parts of the world in an offshore Cuban island of Guantanamo and yet the world is being led to believe that this detention without trial is justified," he added.
Kuhenga said that one can go on and on giving instances of obvious human rights violations in some of these western "democracies."
The columnist believes that the hidden agenda against China holds the answer to the question of why China is suddenly vilified on some stops of the torch relay route.
"But for us in the developing world, the emerging China is not scary at all. On the contrary, it is a welcome recipe because that means the end of the bullying of the weak."
Source: Xinhua
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