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Viewing cable 09BUENOSAIRES1282, MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17-23; 11/23/09; BUENOS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09BUENOSAIRES1282 2009-11-23 19:47 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Buenos Aires
VZCZCXYZ0025
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHBU #1282/01 3271948
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O R 231947Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0088
INFO RHMCSUU/CDR USSOCOM MACDILL AFB FL
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES
UNCLAS BUENOS AIRES 001282 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, I/GWHA, WHA, WHA/PDA, WHA/BSC, WHA/EPSC 
CDR USSOCOM FOR J-2 IAD/LAMA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC KPAO KMDR PREL
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17-23; 11/23/09; BUENOS 
AIRES 
 
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17-23; 11/23/09; BUENOS 
AIRES 
 
 
 
1. SUMMARY STATEMENT 
 
Key international opinion pieces and editorials last week were 
mostly related to President Obama's trip to Asia and its impact on 
the US-Sino bilateral relationship; President Obama's policy on the 
Middle East; the Guantanamo Bay detention center; and the outcome 
of the FOA Summit. 
 
2. PRESIDENT OBAMA TRIP TO ASIA 
 
 
 
-   "From competitors to strategic partners" 
 
 
 
Claudio Fantini, international analyst of business-financial "El 
Cronista," writes (11/17), "In April 2001, an air incident on the 
Chinese island of Hainan showed the Bush administration's wish to 
grant China the role the Russians used to have during the Cold War. 
Eight years later, a US President arrives in Shanghai seeking an 
ally where his predecessor wanted an enemy. Barack Obama is 
inaugurating a multilateral world and accepting China as one of its 
leaders. 
 
 
 
"Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama wants a less dependent relationship 
with the US and less military presence in Okinawa. Anyway, Japan is 
bewildered that the power with which it has a 50-year-long 
partnership has decided to become a partner of China. So are the 
other Asian allies of Washington - South Korea and Taiwan. 
 
 
 
"Obama offering China to become partners instead of competitors 
must have disappointed Muslims of Xinjiang, Tibetans and Falun 
Gong's followers, who are frequently victims of China's human 
rights violations. 
 
 
 
"Thinking of those victims, Obama made clear that he will continue 
claiming for the defense of human rights and guarantees, but not 
from the position of a rival but that of an ally. This is why he 
posed the end of the isolation of the Burmese military regime in 
Singapore while asking for the release of opposed leader Aung San 
Suu Kyi. 
 
 
 
"Obama has just acknowledged in Asia that the world is again 
multilateral and China is one of its hubs. Without the Asian power, 
nothing can be done on climate change, the fight on ultra-Islamic 
terrorism and the containment of rogue states such as North Korea 
and Iran. 
 
 
 
"Anyway, this turn, which looks like a Copernican turn, is not so 
much so. There is a successful antecedent of a US-Sino 'embrace.' 
The 'ping-pong diplomacy' of the times of Nixon, Kissinger, Mao 
Tse-tung and Chu En-lai served to isolate and weaken the Soviet 
Union in the world scenario. By then, China was still monolithic in 
its Marxism-Leninism, with a Communist government and a 
centrally-planned, collective economy. Currently, thanks to Deng 
Xiaoping's reforms, China is a huge and pushy market economy, 
although with a regime of unique political party and 
authoritarianism." 
 
 
 
-   "The US-China: the game of interdependence" 
 
 
 
Leading "Clarin's" international editor Marcelo Cantelmi writes 
(11/21), "Far from the US ability to impose its own agenda, none of 
the issues the American brought to Beijing had some impact... 
Beijing does not forget for one instant that China is the US 
largest creditor. China will continue funding the low parity of its 
currency, which benefits its global exports. Given that it is 
 
 
cheaper to import than manufacture products, this will make 
permanent the US historical unemployment rate... The US wanted the 
huge Chinese domestic market to buy the products of its own 
factories, but this would only be possible with an exchange rate 
that is exclusively subject to market forces (which would make 
Asian exports cheaper). However, Beijing wants its own market to 
maintain its 8%-plus growth. This is the point of fracture for the 
spectacular US-Sino marriage, which, according to Harvard historian 
Nial Ferguson, is a 10 x 10 partnership: China obtains 10% growth, 
and the US gets 10% unemployment." 
 
 
 
-   "'Obamao,' a phenomenon among Chinese youth" 
 
 
 
David Brunat, on special assignment in Beijing for leading 
"Clarin," comments (11/17), "'Obamao' is one of the most popular 
characters among Beijing youth... 'Obamao' is the combination of 
the names of Obama and Mao Tse Tung... The face with a lost look on 
the horizon typical of Barack Obama's election posters was combined 
with a cap with the Communist star, which was also classical of the 
pictures of the dead Chinese President. 
 
 
 
"Never before have the Chinese showed such passion for a foreign 
leader, and less if he comes from the US, the major enemy of the 
Communist regime since its 1949 foundation. However, now even 
university teachers show to their students videos with Obama's 
speeches... 
 
 
 
"New generations see in the first Afro-American president a light 
of hope, change, equal opportunities vis-????-vis the politically and 
socially inflexible Communist bureaucracy. (Obama's) optimistic 
discourse, the famous 'yes we can' captivates millions of Chinese." 
 
 
 
3. MIDDLE EAST 
 
 
 
-   "Obama pressures Israel over Jewish settlements" 
 
 
 
Leading "Clarin" carries an opinion piece by Shlomo Slutzky, on 
special assignment in Tel Aviv, who writes (11/19), "The US 
President stated: 'The new constructions of Jewish settlements do 
not contribute to Israel's secure borders.' In this way, the US 
President defined his opposition to Israel building settlements in 
the West Bank, particularly at this crucial moment that Washington 
is attempting to gather Israelis and Palestinians and have them sit 
together at the negotiation table. 
 
 
 
"... In this way, not only the USG indignation was made patent 
about the Israeli decision, but also its actual support for the 
Palestinians, who refuse to resume negotiations if Israel does not 
put an end to the construction in its settlements while 
negotiations take place." 
 
 
 
4. GUANTANAMO BAY DETENTION CENTER 
 
 
 
- "Obama admits he will not be able to close the Guantanamo 
detention center in January" 
 
 
 
Ana Baron, leading "Clarin's" Washington-based correspondent, 
writes (11/19) "Respect for human rights has always been one of 
Barack Obama's priorities. However, yesterday he admitted for the 
first time he will not meet the original January deadline for 
shutting down the military prison in Guantanamo Bay although he 
expects to do it sometime in 2010. On the other hand, even 
Democrats have criticized his decision to subject to trial the five 
September 11 suspects at New York civil courts... Although during 
his election campaign, Obama said the terrorists used the 
 
 
Guantanamo prison argument to recruit new jihad supporters, when he 
took over, his efforts to close the prison and relocate some 200 
detainees were harshly criticized by Democrats, Republicans and 
even by those citizens living near the place where the detainees 
were going to be transferred." 
 
 
 
5. FAO SUMMIT 
 
 
 
-   "FAO summit fails again" 
 
 
 
Julio Alga????araz, on special assignment in Rome for leading 
"Clarin," comments (11/17) "World leaders have concluded one of the 
worst world global food security summits, which was aimed at 
tackling the most tragic problem of humanity. World leaders only 
issued a political statement not granting one single cent to 
palliate hunger, which devastates one billion inhabitants of the 
world. 
 
 
 
"The number of summits increases as well as the number of deaths 
due to malnutrition. One out of every six world inhabitants does 
not have enough food to survive... This is the nth time deadlines 
are set that are being ridiculed by reality. 
 
 
 
"The absence of the leaders of G8 wealthy countries was more 
impressive than the attendance of the other sixty world leaders... 
Every six seconds a child dies of malnutrition." 
 
 
 
To see more Buenos Aires reporting, visit our 
 
classified website at: 
 
  
http://www.state.sqov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 
 
 
 
MARTINEZ 
MARTINEZ