webfact Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 China's Xi hails Mugabe as renowned leaderBeijing - China's president Xi Jinping on Monday hailed Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe - a pariah in the West - as a renowned African liberation leader and an "old friend" of the Chinese people.The former guerrilla turned Africa's longest-ruling leader, now 90, was on his 13th trip to China, seeking more Chinese investment in his nation's stagnant economy."The traditional friendship between China and Zimbabwe was forged in the glorious years when we stood shoulder to shoulder against imperialism, colonialism and hegemony," Xi told Mugabe - who is subject to sanctions by the US and European Union - at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing."The Chinese people value friendship and we will never forget those good friends and good brothers who have shown mutual understanding and support vis-a-vis China and who have come through thick and thin with us."The comments by the leader of the world's second-largest economy were unusually effusive compared to the usual Chinese diplomatic formality. He also called the Zimbabwean president a "renowned leader of the African national liberation movement" and "an old friend of the Chinese people whom we respect very much".Full military honoursMugabe said he felt "very much at home", thanking Xi for the invitation which reminded him of the past and "brings our past to the present".Zimbabwe's relations with China and the Chinese Communist Party date back to the liberation struggle of the 1970s, when Beijing provided arms and trained some of the top guerrilla leaders.Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan greeted Mugabe and his wife Grace - dressed in a vivid yellow and brown African-style outfit - with full military honours, with a band playing the two countries' national anthems as a 21-gun salute was fired and the two presidents inspected a military honour guard.Full story: http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Chinas-Xi-hails-Mugabe-as-renowned-leader-20140825-2-- news24 2014-08-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HiSoLowSoNoSo Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 "The Chinese people value friendship and we will never forget those good friends and good brothers who have shown mutual understanding and support vis-a-vis China and who have come through thick and thin with us." Translated: We sleep even with the devil himself if we can make a dollar out of it. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post canopus1969 Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 And there was me thinking Xi Jinping had half a brain 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bendejo Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 Judging a person (or nation) by their friends... There are a lot of people in his home country who wished those guns were pointed at his chest. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 It's just good business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PETERTHEEATER Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 ...........as a 21-gun salute was fired. And every round missed.......... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post klauskunkel Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 It's not a party with the moon face from North Korea missing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sanuk711 Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 Mugabe-- Someone told me that he originaly came from Yorkshire, immigrated then just spelt his name backward...... e-ba- Gum............yes its time for my medication & bed................ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyp Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 This is how China thanks leaders who allow their countries to become economic colonies (along with the opportunity to trade natural resources for lots of weapons). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamahele Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Seeking money for the economy he ruined... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post doggie888888 Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 "The Chinese people value friendship and we will never forget those good friends and good brothers who have shown mutual understanding and support vis-a-vis China and who have come through thick and thin with us." Translated: We sleep even with the devil himself if we can make a dollar out of it. Thank you for the translation. You do realise even the Americans and Europeans would sleep with the devil when it suits, albeit with a lot more subterfuge (hypocrisy?) than the Chinese. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanyk Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Robert Mugabe and Muamar Al Qaddafi represent the two African leaders who refused to be threatened by the west... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post transam Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 Robert Mugabe and Muamar Al Qaddafi represent the two African leaders who refused to be threatened by the west... , joker eh.............. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Local Drunk Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Sadly the guns were pointed in the wrong direction... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Local Drunk Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Robert Mugabe and Muamar Al Qaddafi represent the two African leaders who refused to be threatened by the west... Is it sill kinda hip to say "Face Palm"? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasun Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 My enemy's enemy is a friend of mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Local Drunk Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 (edited) My enemy's enemy is a friend of mine... Your friend of a friend has also completely destroyed what was once a very prosperous nation: Rhodesia. Edited August 26, 2014 by Local Drunk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank James Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Birds of a feather, flocking together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RickBradford Posted August 26, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2014 Millions of Zimbabweans would queue for hours to give Mugabe a 21-gun salute -- from extremely close range. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank James Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Cecil Rhodes is turning in his grave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilSA1 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Robert Mugabe and Muamar Al Qaddafi represent the two African leaders who refused to be threatened by the west... ......... and a lot of good its done them. Years ago people said,'come to Rhodesia and see the Zimbabwe Ruins' , now they say 'come to Zimbabwe and see the Rhodesian Ruins' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publicus Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 People who believe a rising CCP-PRC is good for global stability, peace, geostrategic balance need to look closely at these two peas in a pod and to think of the kind of dictators the Boyz in Beijing go in to ecstasy about. Many countries of sub-Saharan Africa are already tributary states of the CCP Boyz in Beijing, Zimbabwe chief among them and continually working with the CCP Boyz to increase the number of tributaries. The EU as a tributary will be great but the United States would have to be gone from the face of the earth as the prerequisite. The Boyz oppose democracy and market economics because democracy would remove the CCP from its control over state owned and controlled economics and finance and because Chinese culture is defined ideologically by 5000 years of warlords, emperors and dynasties of emperors and now the new dynasty of the CCP dictators. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookee68 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 My enemy's enemy is a friend of mine... That's why he;s your enermy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Kind of ironic Xi smacking down 'imperialism' after all that lot are doing in the world today. Anyway, two peas in a pod, perfect for one another. That disgusting primate. I would pay good money to have 10 minutes in a room with the geriatric degenerate. The old adage, only the good die young is spot on here! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvid Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 R. Mugabe brain probably looks like his dry face by now, unable to communicate between synapses. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laobali Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Don't forget he was wooed by the Shinawats too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khounteen Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 This monkey, depending on which political persuasion you are, could be seen as a hero or a zealot. Talk to some Zimbabwean and some of them praise him for the courage to stand up to the west and some hated him for destroying the country. Now he has gone to china with his begging bowl after the west told him to f off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 "The Chinese people value friendship and we will never forget those good friends and good brothers who have shown mutual understanding and support vis-a-vis China and who have come through thick and thin with us." Translated: We sleep even with the devil himself if we can make a dollar out of it. Exactly their sentiment. The Chinese government is even more morally bankrupt than the US Govt. They are complete whores. Organ harvesting of their own people, ten years in prison for grandmothers practicing Fulon Gong, and now embracing the pigs of the planet. I do realize my own government was close friends with Saddam, Gaddafi, and Noriega, as long as it benefitted them. And did I mention the drug billionaire, puppet president Karzai? But, China is sinking to ever new depths. They just do not care. Kim Jung IL, and now Mugabe? Who next? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laobali Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 "The Chinese people value friendship and we will never forget those good friends and good brothers who have shown mutual understanding and support vis-a-vis China and who have come through thick and thin with us." Translated: We sleep even with the devil himself if we can make a dollar out of it. Exactly their sentiment. The Chinese government is even more morally bankrupt than the US Govt. They are complete whores. Organ harvesting of their own people, ten years in prison for grandmothers practicing Fulon Gong, and now embracing the pigs of the planet. I do realize my own government was close friends with Saddam, Gaddafi, and Noriega, as long as it benefitted them. And did I mention the drug billionaire, puppet president Karzai? But, China is sinking to ever new depths. They just do not care. Kim Jung IL, and now Mugabe? Who next? They have oil and mineral rights in most of Africa already. That's what it's all about. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Bell Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Surprised they didn't eat him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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