ChiPet: Relations with China at Any Cost

The recently formed China Petronia (ChiPet) political party performed today its first, semi-closed meeting, to come up with the names of its leader and chairs which are as following: Becky San was elected as the party leader, with Andreea Ramona Onofrei as vice-leader; Tatsiana Kuzmiankova was assigned as the liaison of the party; two members, Haroula Gotsi and Lea Lojanicic have the position of press correspondents; Iskandar Konunov is the secretary.

Being asked about their platform and position on different issues regarding The People’s Republic of China, the press correspondent, Haroula Gotsi, giving the official position of this party, claimed that ChiPet was for a close trading relationship with this country, and that their party was unwilling to sacrifice this relationship, which they considered being fairly important, for almost any reason.

The ChiPet expressed the readiness to involve itself in discussions with the government of China in order to help improve their human right conditions, policies and actions, also lending a hand in their social and political development. Being asked about how far would this policy of close association go, which would be their position if China’s pose continued to cause dissatisfaction in the world’s stage about delicate issues like human rights, Darfur, environmental agreements, Gotsi gave a diplomatic answer, saying: "We’ll try to persuade China that improving the human rights situation within the country would be better for the country itself, and we are ready to engage in disputes with it, and in extreme situations even put economic sanctions, but we don’t believe that such decision will be necessary”. But what is the definition of “extreme situation”? Will this party be more affiliated to the economic connections with China or global issues and concepts like human rights protections since they say to deeply care about both, even though until now even powers like the US and the UN haven’t been able to set a common language with China about this issues. Will the ChiPet be able to resolve this problem by convincing China? That is still to be seen.

- DENISA QORI