[F4AG] WikiLeaks proves the world isn’t run by robots

 

WikiLeaks proves the world isn't run by robots Venkatesan Vembu | Friday, December 3, 2010

Venkatesan Vembu A couple of months ago, Sha Zukang, one of China's top UN diplomats, made sensational news when, in a fit of alcohol-induced garrulousness, he told his boss and UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon to his face exactly what he thought of him. "I know you never liked me," Sha told Ban at a public reception during a retreat at an Austrian ski resort. "Well, I never liked you, either."   Sha's 15-minute hyperventilation, during the course of which he also made clear that he intensely disliked Americans, was of course seen as an undiplomatic outburst that was unworthy of a member of that exalted club of diplomats; and, when the effect of the alcohol had worn off, Sha felt compelled to offer an apology. Yet, for all its indecorousness, it showed up an all-too-rare moment of brutal honesty in the anodyne — even mind-numbingly boring — world of international diplomacy.   This wasn't, of course, the first time that the language of Chinese diplomacy has shown itself to be more than ordinary colourful. In the late 1990s, just before then British colony Hong Kong returned to China, British governor Chris Patten found himself at the receiving end of foul-mouthed Chinese invectives that more closely resembled the exertions of a sailor on shore leave. Patten was called, among other things, "an old whore", a "sinner of a thousand generations", a "serpent" — and, somewhat incomprehensibly, a "tango dancer".

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