Dealing with puppets

Iraqi “president” Jalal Talabani paid a week-long visit to China, apparently the first visit by an Iraqi president to China since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1958. Of course, unlike Saddam Hussein, Talabani is not a legitimate Iraqi president, he's only a running dog of American imperialism. Still, Chinese president Hu Jintao welcomed him as a genuine head of state and even described him as “an old friend of the Chinese people”.

If the Chinese government is willing to deal with the puppet government in Baghdad, then why did the Communist Party reject the puppet Japanese government of Pu Yi in Manchukuo in the thirties? Not dealing with the puppets of your very own enemy, but having no qualms to deal with puppets of U.S. imperialism oppressing and slaughtering the Iraqi people is not the “right thing to do”. Talabani revived a 1997 contract signed by the Saddam administration for China National Petroleum Corporation to develop the al-Ahdab oil field with a pre-war capacity of 90,000 barrels a day, only awaiting the new Iraqi oil law dictated by Washington to plunder Iraq's oil resources.

The Chinese government should be ashamed of being complicit to the plunder of Iraq's natural resources under the umbrella of the American occupation. Welcoming a puppet like Talabani, who only “reigns” in the Green Zone fortress is a disgrace. The Talabani puppet administration only “survives” because it is propped up by the war criminal trio of Bush-Blair-Cheney.

China also canceled a large part of Iraq's debt. This amounts to a direct subsidy of the American occupation. China pledged to help Iraqi reconstruction. How can Iraq be reconstructed as long as the American occupation continues?

China is starting to show the first signs of imperialist behavior.