Leftists See U.S. Plot to Undermine Beijing

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By Staff Reporter of the Sun

A band of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3921  as a plot to undermine Beijing’s Communist government and divert attention from the American-led war in Iraq.

“We’re here because we’re opposed to the United States’s attempts to colonize China,” a member of the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3442, Paul Greenberg of San Francisco, said. “They’re trying to break off Tibet from China in order to allow the U.S. to occupy it. … Tibet has been part of China since before any Western countries even existed.”

A small band of demonstrators from the left-wing group gathered on the outskirts of the pro-China, Olympics-sponsored celebration on San Francisco’s waterfront. The group, hoisting a banner reading “Say No to the U.S.-CIA Campaign Against China,” was less well-received when it turned up at a pro-Tibet rally and candlelight vigil Tuesday night.More than two dozen activists signed a statement posted on the Internet this week warning of a “demonization campaign” seeking to use the Olympics to pressure on China about Tibet and the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region.

http://www2.nysun.com/article/74468

2008-04-10