World press on relations between Russia and the West (October 12-13, 2014)"Vladimir Putin is no saint, but G20 is a club full of sinners" is an article which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on October 13. "while Abbott is doing what he has to do as the host Prime Minister, it would be helpful if he dropped his own political grandstanding: his repeated description of the tragic deaths of those on board MH17 as "murder". Either that or he should be consistent by calling out the murder committed by several other G20 members. If the states responsible for genuine murders and those that have carried out killings equivalent to the MH17 deaths were excluded, the Brisbane meeting would be a much smaller affair," the article reads."Saudi Arabia beheads individuals for the crime of sorcery, among other things... In some ways, Russia also looks good compared with China, or at least rather similar. There is an opposition in Russia. Beijing doesn't allow such decadence... And Turkey is actively supporting some of the worse elements of the Libyan anarchy as President Erdogan takes an increasingly interventionist and apparently religion-based world view. Turkey also has never shown the maturity required to face up to the Armenian genocide," the author writes."But the G20 meeting is not about the great and good, about justice and the human rights. It's about collective economic self-interest. And that, if it's successful, will make life better for billions of people. Thus the occasional thug and despot has to be accepted in the mix for the greater good. Exclude them and the nations that have made fatal mistakes, there would be no meeting," the article concludes.
"Vladimir Putin is no saint, but G20 is a club full of sinners" is an article which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on October 13.
"while Abbott is doing what he has to do as the host Prime Minister, it would be helpful if he dropped his own political grandstanding: his repeated description of the tragic deaths of those on board MH17 as "murder". Either that or he should be consistent by calling out the murder committed by several other G20 members. If the states responsible for genuine murders and those that have carried out killings equivalent to the MH17 deaths were excluded, the Brisbane meeting would be a much smaller affair," the article reads.
"Saudi Arabia beheads individuals for the crime of sorcery, among other things... In some ways, Russia also looks good compared with China, or at least rather similar. There is an opposition in Russia. Beijing doesn't allow such decadence... And Turkey is actively supporting some of the worse elements of the Libyan anarchy as President Erdogan takes an increasingly interventionist and apparently religion-based world view. Turkey also has never shown the maturity required to face up to the Armenian genocide," the author writes.
"But the G20 meeting is not about the great and good, about justice and the human rights. It's about collective economic self-interest. And that, if it's successful, will make life better for billions of people. Thus the occasional thug and despot has to be accepted in the mix for the greater good. Exclude them and the nations that have made fatal mistakes, there would be no meeting," the article concludes.
