China intensifies condemnation of Libya air strikes

BEIJING: China's top newspaper on Monday strengthened the opposition to Beijing's air strike west of Libya, accusing the support of the strikes violate international rules and risk another crisis in the Middle East.
strongest condemnation yet of China's air attacks on Western forces of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya published in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of ruling Communist Party, and he showed how the military conflict could become a new front of contention between Beijing and Washington.
The paper used words barely veiled blame the United States and its allies of violating international rules, although China has refrained from blocking the United Nations resolution authorizing air strikes effectively.
The paper compares the assault on sites Jamahiriya to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and suggested that a model too far from the West in the affairs of other countries.
"The storm soaked with blood that Iraq has suffered for eight years and the untold suffering of its people are a mirror and a warning," said the commentary in the People's Daily.
"The military attack against Libya are, after Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the third time that some countries have launched a military action against sovereign nations," he said in reference to the United States and its allies.
"It should be noted that whenever military means are used to treat seizures, is a blow to the UN Charter and norms governing international relations."
The comment appeared under the name "Zhong Sheng," a pen name in Chinese sounds like "the voice of the Centre," suggesting that it express the views of senior government.
growing criticism of China for Western air strikes on Libya has exposed the dilemmas facing Beijing in the Middle East.
The Middle East is a source of increasing importance of oil for energy consumers, China. The weekend in Saudi Arabia Aramco announced its latest project proposal to supply crude to a refinery in southwestern China, where Beijing is building a pipeline that cuts through Myanmar.
About half the crude oil imports from China last year came from the Middle East and North Africa. China wants to diversify supplies, but the Arab countries and Iran are so many of the world they are sure to remain the main suppliers.
On Saturday, the official Libyan oil contracts, said Tripoli was considering offering oil blocks directly to China, India and other countries he considers as friends in his one-month war with rebels.
At the same time, Beijing has relatively few diplomatic influence in the Middle East, and no major military role. Instead, he tends to lean, sometimes reluctantly, at the request of the West, while pursuing its commercial interests and Energy