The Myanmar Junta Has a Friend in Beijing

It seems that the Chinese are going to step in and back up the Junta in their slow response to their crisis.

Other countries must show ``due respect'' to Myanmar, said Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, at a briefing yesterday. ``Myanmar is a sovereign country. In the end, rescue and relief work will have to rely on the Myanmar government and people.''

That "due respect" is going to doom 100,000 or more people to death by starvation and disease. The Chinese don't want to jeopardize that natural gas coming in from the Junta. And they accuse the US of looking at the dollars and cents over lives? This looks like just another case of the world watching while people are dying by the thousands.