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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, in China this week to advance Sino-American cooperation on developing “clean energy” will comply with President Barack Obama’s pragmatic approach, and overlook China’s human rights violations and its suppression of Tibet.
Despite Pelosi’s past vocal criticism of China’s appalling treatment of dissenters, she’ll reportedly focus solely on issues related to greenhouse gases, assiduously avoiding what Beijing and Washington call “counterproductive talk of human rights.”
Below are excerpts of Pelosi’s planned remarks to the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing today, just days before the 20th anniversary of the China’s Tiananmen Square massacre of anti-communist protesters:
“History will judge how the Peoples’ Republic of China, and the United States of America confronted the greatest threat the earth has ever seen. I speak of global climate change, of course, and nothing more.”
“Mankind has built great machines resulting in rapid societal advances, but the stinking byproduct of this progressive movement leaves millions of people yearning to breathe freely. I speak of greenhouse gases, of course, and nothing more.”
“China’s own leaders must certainly feel the heat and sense the rising tide, that will eventually overwhelm these shores. I speak of the melting polar icecaps, of course, and nothing more.”
“As the temperature rises, some species will not survive. Once-dominant creatures that strode the earth with confidence, will cower in crevices unable to withstand the heat. I speak of mass extinctions brought on by man-made climate change, and nothing more.”
“There is still time to reverse this deadly trend. China, free to bet on a better future, can cut its filthy byproducts by dismantling the obsolete machine, and unleashing the clean energy of her as-yet-untapped resources — the power of sunlight and the wild sweeping wind of change. I speak of alternative energy, of course, and nothing more.”
Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, the family-friendly news satire site, and anchor of ScrappleFace Network News (SNN), seen on YouTube.
