Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2021-1000825527-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4703 invoked by uid 510); 18 Sep 2001 15:07:11 -0000 Received: from n25.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.75) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 15:07:11 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2021-1000825527-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.221] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 18 Sep 2001 15:06:30 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 18 Sep 2001 15:05:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 65015 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 15:05:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 18 Sep 2001 15:05:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 15:05:28 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id IAA03069 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:05:27 -0700 Message-Id: <200109181505.IAA03069@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Wary.Beijing.Seals.Off.Frontier.With.Pakistan] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit London Daily Telegraph September 18, 2001 Wary Beijing Seals Off Frontier With Pakistan By David Rennie in Beijing China has closed its frontier with Pakistan, officials confirmed yesterday, as Beijing warily prepared for the first American military action in its backyard since the Vietnam War. The Karakorum highway, the dramatic mountain route into Pakistan from the Chinese desert outpost of Kashgar, was sealed on Saturday, officials at the border post of Tashkurgan said. China's short, and all but impassable border with Afghanistan is permanently closed to official traffic, and analysts said it was highly unlikely that Afghan refugees would head for China, where they could be assured of an unfriendly reception. China is normally strongly opposed to Western military interventions, especially when justified with moral arguments. China fears that the same arguments might one day justify western "meddling" in its own troubled regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as in Taiwan. This time Beijing is sitting on the fence, unwilling to approve unilateral American strikes but acutely aware that America is not in the mood for Chinese carping. As Communist leaders seek to buy more time, propaganda chiefs have ordered state media to play down the news from New York and Washington, banning it from front pages in favour of a long-running campaign to elevate the party chief, Jiang Zemin, to the ranks of history's greatest Marxists. Many ordinary Chinese, fed on years of anti-American propaganda, have reacted to the attacks on America with a mixture of sympathy for those killed and satisfaction that the "bully" had been "taught a lesson". Western diplomats predicted that China would urge that American action should be put to the United Nations Security Council, of which China is a permanent member and might simply abstain from any vote. "They are pragmatic enough to know what is going to happen anyway," said one diplomat. "They don't like the idea of American troops in Pakistan, but if the US is saying `Be our friend or be our enemy', they don't want to be on the wrong side of that." Western diplomats noted that China is currently on the back foot, after the "acutely embarrassing" disclosure that a Chinese delegation was in Kabul last week signing a trade and technical co-operation deal with the Taliban, hours before the attacks on New York and Washington. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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