China has sharply criticised the U.S. over a new law that threatens
sanctions against any companies from around the world investing
more than $40 million in Iran or Libya. China accuses the U.S. of
"dictatorial behaviour." An article in the Communist Party magazine
Outlook says that the U.S. is "practising interventionism to make
itself a dictator of international, political and economic
affairs....Placing its own law above international laws and
practising extraterritoriality shows incisively the U.S.
hegemonical ideology of overweening arrogance that those who submit
will prosper and those who resist will perish."
The article also repeats China's criticism of the Helms-Burton
law which seeks to impose sanctions against "non-American"
companies engaging in business with Cuba. The article reads: "As
the only superpower after the end of the cold war, the U.S., having
the United Nations in its power, stubbornly practises multilateral
interventionism and succeeds in certain cases." The article says
that the "serial sanctions" of the U.S. are arousing a desire for
"serial condemnations...and possibly serial counter-sanctions."
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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