September 6, 2004

MODEL REGIME CHANGE:

China will send troops to Haiti (Bill Gertz, 9/06/04, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

China's Public Security Ministry is set to dispatch a 130-man "special police" unit to Haiti this month in the first deployment of Chinese forces to the Western Hemisphere, Bush administration officials say.

The first advance unit of the police troops, who are specially trained for riot and crowd control, will over the next two weeks join the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti, the multinational force known as Minustah dispatched to the war-torn Caribbean island.


We'll need them in Cuba too.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 6, 2004 8:13 AM
Comments

You'd think their experience with the Tan-Zam railroad would have taught them about Black LDCs. And conditions in Haiti, both human and environmental, are lost worse than in Tanzania and Zambia in the mid 60s.

Posted by: Bart at September 6, 2004 8:53 AM

Why? I thought everyone in Cuba was so thirsty for freedom that merely eliminating one man would fix everything.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at September 6, 2004 5:54 PM

It will bring freedom, but chaos too until institutions are restored.

Posted by: oj at September 6, 2004 6:00 PM

That's why we occupied Russia after the USSR broke up, then?

Posted by: Harry Eagar at September 6, 2004 10:28 PM

Russia is your example of a lack of chaos?

Posted by: oj at September 6, 2004 10:39 PM

A post-Castro Cuba has nightmare potential, but we do have about two million Cuban emigres and their descendants who would parachute in there and shape it up.

Posted by: Bart at September 6, 2004 10:46 PM

There will be some problems (and some account-settling), but Cuba will be running very well, and probably without much direct US help, in less than a year. If there are Chinese there, I suspect some of them may want to stay.

Posted by: jim hamlen at September 6, 2004 10:58 PM

The week after Castro dies, Miami will be a ghost town.

Posted by: ray at September 6, 2004 11:08 PM

Nice sentiment, but unlikely.
Or rather, it won't stay a ghost town, people will return from visiting Cuba quickly enough, shaken and pale(-ish).

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at September 8, 2004 6:12 PM
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