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Pakistan has turned to China in every crisis, and this time again Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani will also rush to China next week on a four-day visit starting from 17th May. Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokeswoman Jiang Yu confirmed this and described China and Pakistan as good neighbors, friends, partners and brothers. On 9th May 2011 during an address to the Pakistan parliament, Gilani hailed China as Pakistans all weather friend and also absolved the ISI from sheltering the al Qaeda fugitive. He praised China as a source of inspiration and warned the United States that Pakistan reserves the right to retaliate with full force in case of a similar US operation in the future. China is perhaps the only country that has supported the Pakistani ignorance about the whereabouts of bin Laden albeit hailed the Laden killing as a major event and a positive development in the international struggle against terrorism. Jiang Yu further said that Pakistan stands at the forefront of the international struggle against terrorism.Pakistani governments determination to fight terrorism are staunch and its actions have been vigorous. Pakistan has made important contributions to the international struggle against terror. She also said that China will continue to support Pakistan staunchly in developing and implementing its own anti-terror strategy based on its own national conditions.
Experts of international relations in China also toed the government line as usual. Guo Xiangang, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies stated that Ladens death and any rift between the United States and Pakistan will not affect Beijings policies toward Islamabad. And why not, when Pakistan has been secretly sharing some of the advanced military technology to China, be it the 1998 transfer of an unexploded American Tomahawk missile or the F-16s. It has been reported that China has once again shown interest in the debris of the crashed SEAL helicopter in Abbottabad raid.
Response of Netizens:
Not only the Chinese government has rendered support to the Pakistan in the aftermath of bin Ladens killing but the netizens across China have also toed the government line. Shen Weihuang quoted a survey in an article published in the Global Times on May 10, 2011 which revealed that 60% of the 500,000 people who took an online survey conducted by Hong Kong based Phoenix television, agreed with the statement that bin Ladens death was a sad event because he was an anti-US warrior. More than 75% of the 17,000 respondents thought the US would get tougher on China after Bin Ladens death.
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Global Times wrote on May 5, 2011 in one of the commentaries that the counter-terrorism war, mainly in the Arab world, has served to prevent the US from disturbing China during the past decade. In the near future, the US may pour more money and resources in handling the rise of China. Some netizens in various forums also expressed their views on Laden issue. To quote a few from sina.com posted in Chinese: We believe that there is some support within the United States for bin Laden network, though we do not know who is supporting the network, we do not know if any US government official is supporting the network or not, otherwise 9.11 would not have happened at all. Another wrote, Pakistan helped the US in counter-terrorism, but after finishing the task, it has been blaming Pakistan for sheltering [terrorists], disgusting! Yet another wrote, The US sending forces inside Pakistan territory to kill people is an act of a terrorist, gangster and a thug combined! American logic is the logic of a gangster, Pakistan! You hold on, China is behind you. It is useless to shed tears in international arena, there is no justice to talk of, national interests are supreme, and if you do not wield power you have no right to speech wrote another. The US politics of power and hegemony demonstrates that in order to serve its own interests, the US will achieve these by hook or crook showing utter disregards for others announced another. There are others who expressed their fears about Pakistan being used by the US for battering China. Pakistan has allowed the foreign troops to operate in its own territory freely; this is surrendering ones sovereign rights under humiliating terms! China must be vigilant, or else one day, the U.S. forces in Pakistan could attack China as well without the knowledge of Pakistan, it would be a grave problem jotted another netizen
Experts of international relations in China also toed the government line as usual. Guo Xiangang, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies stated that Ladens death and any rift between the United States and Pakistan will not affect Beijings policies toward Islamabad. And why not, when Pakistan has been secretly sharing some of the advanced military technology to China, be it the 1998 transfer of an unexploded American Tomahawk missile or the F-16s. It has been reported that China has once again shown interest in the debris of the crashed SEAL helicopter in Abbottabad raid.
Response of Netizens:
Not only the Chinese government has rendered support to the Pakistan in the aftermath of bin Ladens killing but the netizens across China have also toed the government line. Shen Weihuang quoted a survey in an article published in the Global Times on May 10, 2011 which revealed that 60% of the 500,000 people who took an online survey conducted by Hong Kong based Phoenix television, agreed with the statement that bin Ladens death was a sad event because he was an anti-US warrior. More than 75% of the 17,000 respondents thought the US would get tougher on China after Bin Ladens death.

Global Times wrote on May 5, 2011 in one of the commentaries that the counter-terrorism war, mainly in the Arab world, has served to prevent the US from disturbing China during the past decade. In the near future, the US may pour more money and resources in handling the rise of China. Some netizens in various forums also expressed their views on Laden issue. To quote a few from sina.com posted in Chinese: We believe that there is some support within the United States for bin Laden network, though we do not know who is supporting the network, we do not know if any US government official is supporting the network or not, otherwise 9.11 would not have happened at all. Another wrote, Pakistan helped the US in counter-terrorism, but after finishing the task, it has been blaming Pakistan for sheltering [terrorists], disgusting! Yet another wrote, The US sending forces inside Pakistan territory to kill people is an act of a terrorist, gangster and a thug combined! American logic is the logic of a gangster, Pakistan! You hold on, China is behind you. It is useless to shed tears in international arena, there is no justice to talk of, national interests are supreme, and if you do not wield power you have no right to speech wrote another. The US politics of power and hegemony demonstrates that in order to serve its own interests, the US will achieve these by hook or crook showing utter disregards for others announced another. There are others who expressed their fears about Pakistan being used by the US for battering China. Pakistan has allowed the foreign troops to operate in its own territory freely; this is surrendering ones sovereign rights under humiliating terms! China must be vigilant, or else one day, the U.S. forces in Pakistan could attack China as well without the knowledge of Pakistan, it would be a grave problem jotted another netizen