Saturday, June 13, 2009

Sometimes international relations can be fun (for those looking in)

So I love the BBC. Article on Bermuda accepting Muslim Uighurs from Guantanamo without consulting London.

Highlights:

"London is also concerned about the effect on China, which has demanded the return of these Uighurs, whom it regards as dangerous "separatists" for supporting a Muslim state of East Turkestan in western China.

British diplomats in Beijing face quite a delicate mission in trying to explain what has happened.

On the one hand they want to push the blame onto those pesky Bermudians (one can imagine the Chinese hurrying discreetly for an atlas; perhaps the Brits helpfully brought one).

On the other hand, it is a considerable loss of face for the British ambassador to have to admit that the Bermudian mouse has nibbled the tail of the old British lion.

Maybe the Chinese will see it as a plot and a way for the treacherous British to blame someone else. In that way, honour, and face, might be saved."


Entirely possible, that atlas thing.

"Meanwhile, the Uighurs are, in the splendid understatement of their lawyer, "trying to get a sense of where they are".

Where they are is in the middle of the Atlantic, a bit over to the left-hand side."


You should see the map the BBC put up to show where Bermuda is - a little white dot in a vast expanse of blue ocean.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

3 wolves

I love the BBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Juz sayin'.