When the whole world is relieved with the deaths of Osama, Saddam, Gaddafi.. many Chinese are scared of the next focus of US for pro- democracy regime change. This will bring a wave of joy to pro-democracy and freedom loving people within china (e.g. Liu Xiaobo, student revolutionaries and the people tortured by autocratic and dictator regime).
The United States' most vilified terrorist foe has been dead and also many regime change has been a success but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread of the news of immolation cases of monks (who have been a symbol of peace and sacrifice since millions of years), Chinese analysts had begun the guessing game of where Washington will focus its attention next.
"Why didn't they catch him(Osama) alive?" speculated military affairs analyst Guo Xuan. "Because he was no longer needed as an excuse for Washington to take the anti-terror war outside of the US borders. It is because of bin Laden that the US were allowed to increase their strategic presence in many places around the world as never before. But Libya and NATO's attack there have changed the game. They (the US) no longer need bin Laden to assert their authority."
Even before bin Laden's death, Beijing had expressed concern that the US strategists are diverting their attention from the war on terror to containing the rise of China and other emerging economies.
A long article on Libya stalemate published by the editor of Contemporary International Relations magazine, Lin Limin, argued that the US has been unwilling to take the lead role in the Libya conflict because it has "finally woken up to the fact that its main reason to worry are the emerging countries.
Iraq,Afganistan and Libyia and now Syria might have acted as the rehearsal battleground for US.
The US presence in Afghanistan has always been a controversial one for Chinese politicians. China joined the global war on terror because bin Laden's political agenda of setting up an Arab caliphate and sponsoring terrorism presented a direct threat to its restive Muslim north-western region of Xinjiang. But Beijing has been suspicious of the US intentions, worrying that Washington is pursuing a broader agenda for long-term presence in the region, which China regards as its backyard.
Beijing officially hailed the killing of the terrorist leader by the US as "a milestone and a positive development for the international anti-terrorism efforts".
USA will get the support from each and every single country in the world (Except Russia). But it is not the simple one. US will also get the support from the major part of Chinese population :
Case of Liu Xiaobo : He was awarded noble peace prize for the work in the field of human rights. He has exposed how China is curbing the human rights of Chinese people to an extreme. The violation of human rights in china can be discussed under the following scenarios :
a. Baby Thefts :
It is the extreme and heinous case of human rights violation. Children are being stolen from the people in rural areas and being sold to people in urban areas.
b. Torture on Youth and their rights :
It was clearly evident in 1989 when china openly massacred youths at Tiananmen Square. Present situation is worse than this. Youths are not allowed to assemble together even for social or cultural motives.
c. Atrocities committed on monks :
Monks are taking to self immolation to be safe from the Chinese atrocities. This is the worst case of self immolation world can see.
d. Property accumulation by communist cadres: Communist cadres snatch the property of common people whenever and wherever they wish. People have no right on their personal property. Chinese authorities (communist cadres) can snatch anything anytime.
Chinese public reaction to the news of bin Laden's death has mixed reluctant admiration at the success of the secret mission played out reportedly on screens in front of US president Barack Obama with outright fear over what comes next.
"The whole thing seemed like an intelligence operation lifted straight out of '24' (a TV series about US counter-terrorism agents)," said Huang Mei, a TV producer with barely concealed awe. "How advanced and confident they must be to ask their president to watch the killing mission on screens live!"
But some see bin Laden's demise as a blow to efforts to promote a school of Anti-American thought.
"The great anti-America fighter bin Laden was murdered by the US! How sad!" wrote one commenter on Sina's popular Weibo micro-blogging site.
"Is this real? Excellent!" wrote another of the news. "Now the only terrorist left is the United States!"
Commentators have begun analyzing the political capital reaped by Obama and preparing for the possibility that he may win a second term in office. Writing in Beijing's Xinjing Bao, commentator Chen Bing predicted the US will exploit the death of bin Laden to expand its influence in the Middle East and bring the Arab spring to an end.
"What a great way to issue a warning to all anti-American politicians in the region," Chen said. "And a declaration that it (the US) intends to mould the Middle East according to its own design."
The irony of the situation is that in almost all the cases of regime change, local support was negligible, but in case of china, huge support, especially youth population, will accompany US.







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