Castro Denounces U.S. HegemonismBeijing will not be intimidated by President George W. Bush's government in the diplomatic standoff over the collision of a U.S. spy plane with a Chinese fighter, Cuban President Fidel Castro predicted on Thursday."If the gentlemen of the North decide to get on their high horses about this, have no doubt the Chinese will not let themselves be easily intimidated," Castro said in a two-hour speech to a world parliaments group in Havana. If anyone thinks the Chinese are political pushovers, "that is a sign they do not know them," Castro said. Castro said the spy plane incident demonstrated how the United States was increasingly displaying "a Cold War mentality" and using "aggressive terminology" at the diplomatic level "in search of total hegemony." |
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