China’s war-like logistics of Libya evacuation are world-class.

[peaceful]

Updates:

PLAAF is sending 4 IL-76 to Libya today to assist the evacuation.

新华网快讯：中国空军将派出4架伊尔－76飞机，于28日飞赴利比亚执行接运中国在利人员任务。

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[twoplustwoisfour]

It is of course different.

Learn some politics before posting, thanks.

Factually it may be incorrect but practically it makes no difference. Learn to interpret. Thanx.

No, it is not. A fake democracy is the one which denies the basic right of half billion females in india, a fake democracy is the one which keep cheating its population.

Then you don't know jack about India. Learn something about a country before posting. Thanks.

 

[Awesome]

Very impressive, I hope, they assist the 18,000 Pakistanis stranded in Libya coming via the air route. 180 at a time. It will take 100 flights.

 

[Joe Shearer]

It is amusing to see bland advice directed at others before being followed by the advisor.

It is of course different.

Learn some politics before posting, thanks.

Excellent advice.

Since you are apparently deeply engaged with the study of political science, do look up, on Wikipedia if nothing else more authentic is readily available, the term 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. Of course, it is too much to expect you to study Lenin on the role of the Communist Party, or Mao on a host of associated subjects. It is best that you start somewhere, preferably somewhere simple.

No, it is not. A fake democracy is the one which denies the basic right of half billion females in india, a fake democracy is the one which keep cheating its population.

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please stop spamming in this thread/on this forum. go back to your indian forum please.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Very impressive, I hope, they assist the 18,000 Pakistanis stranded in Libya coming via the air route. 180 at a time. It will take 100 flights.

You mean your all-weather friends, I presume? If you had someone else in mind, do hold up your hand and ask.

Captain Nambiar said INS Jalashwa could carry nearly 2,500 people, while the INS Mysore could carry 800-1,000 people.

28 February 2011 Last updated at 07:56 GMT

South Asian countries evacuating nationals from Libya

Indian nationals from Libya arrive in Delhi There are some 18,000 Indians in Libya

South Asian governments have begun evacuating nationals stranded in Libya, as the unrest across the country intensifies.

The Indian authorities organised two flights to bring back about 500 of some 18,000 Indians in Libya.

Hundreds of Nepali workers are also being evacuated. Sri Lankan workers are leaving the country via Jordan.

About 100,000 people have fled anti-government unrest in Libya over the past week, the UN estimates.

India has also sent three warships to help with the evacuation. Two flights operated by the state-owned airline Air India have brought back 530 passengers since late Saturday.

A passenger ferry has also arrived in the Libyan city of Benghazi and will take evacuees to Alexandria in Egypt, from where they will be flown home.

About 3,000 Indians are in Benghazi working for car companies and hospitals.

'Relief'

Mohammed Sali, the first Indian to make it back home, told the BBC that he was robbed of all his possessions at knifepoint as he reached Tripoli airport

Another passenger, Gigi John, said it was a "miracle" that the evacuees managed to "get out of Libya, safe and sound".

<snip>

Their relief at returning home was mixed with concern for those they left behind - some of whom they said were in remote industrial plants, where food and water was running out, says the BBC's Mark Dummett.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

You mean your all-weather friends, I presume? If you had someone else in mind, do hold up your hand and ask.

My guess is there is some discussions ongoing between GoI and GoBD regarding BD nationals in Libya (there are approx 50,000 of them). And some assistance towards their repatriation.
The Air-Sea route has both pros and cons. While the land routes (through neighboring Egypt and Tunisia) are more cost and movement effective.
But on the other hand the land routes are more vulnerable to interdiction by militias and anti-social elements.

Interestingly the land route in to Egypt is/was the one traversed often by the 4th Indian Div. as part of the 8th Army during WW 2.

 

[Speeder 2]

Very impressive, I hope, they assist the 18,000 Pakistanis stranded in Libya coming via the air route. 180 at a time. It will take 100 flights.

Most Pakistanis could speak/or read some Arab, right? Plus, i would assume that Muslims won't hurt each other there?

Comparatively, Vietnamese would be in greater danger.

I think China might decide to evacuate whomever in its way there, especially Vietnamese.

 

[Speeder 2]

Virtually all 30,000 Chinese in Libya evacuated


The Associated Press
BEIJING -- State media in China say virtually all 30,000 Chinese citizens living in Libya have left the turbulent North African country.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the vast majority of the almost 29,000 Chinese who have departed so far are taking shelter in third countries. Monday's report cites Foreign Ministry sources.

Thousands of Chinese have traveled overland to neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, while others have been taken by chartered ferry to Greece and Malta.

Chinese, most working in the construction and oil industries, make up one of the largest blocs of foreign workers in Libya.


Virtually all 30,000 Chinese in Libya evacuated - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

 

[CardSharp]

Virtually all 30,000 Chinese in Libya evacuated


The Associated Press
BEIJING -- State media in China say virtually all 30,000 Chinese citizens living in Libya have left the turbulent North African country.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the vast majority of the almost 29,000 Chinese who have departed so far are taking shelter in third countries. Monday's report cites Foreign Ministry sources.

Thousands of Chinese have traveled overland to neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, while others have been taken by chartered ferry to Greece and Malta.

Chinese, most working in the construction and oil industries, make up one of the largest blocs of foreign workers in Libya.


Virtually all 30,000 Chinese in Libya evacuated - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

That was much quicker than I expected. Good that they got out before the serious stuff starts.

 

[tanlixiang28776]

That was much quicker than I expected. Good that they got out before the serious stuff starts.

So how many days did it take.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

It happens when a nation has soo many workers in someone elses country. The operation cost per human being drops significantly.

Just a matter of when China can return to its work in Libya, which more then makes up for compared to the evacuation cost, which must be peanuts..

 

[Speeder 2]

Letter from China
Dispatches by Evan Osnos​

February 28, 2011

The Chinese Navy, Zambian Copper, and Libya​

(Posted by Evan Osnos)

What does a shooting in Zambia have to do with a Chinese warship steaming into the Mediterranean this week in an unprecedented display of the new P.L.A. Navy?

Two Chinese mining managers in Zambia are scheduled to go on trial for attempted murder next month, accused of shooting and wounding thirteen miners during a 2008 riot over wages at a Chinese-owned coal mine. That riot, in October, 2010, was followed last month by another burst of unrest in Zambia when hundreds of miners at NFCA Mining, in a long-running dispute with Chinese management, burned and vandalized company vehicles and shattered windows. It is all part of a low boil of unrest that has persisted over the past few years, as Chinese-owned enterprises have injected money into Zambia&#8217;s mining sector.

Zambia is hardly the only place that Chinese ventures have encountered security trouble in recent years. According to a tally published last August in a valuable report by the security analysts Andrew Erickson and Gabe Collins, of China Signpost, seven Chinese oil workers in Ethiopia were killed during an attack on Ethiopian forces guarding a Sinopec facility in April 2007; nine Chinese oil workers were taken hostage in Sudan in 2008, and five died in a rescue attempt. And four Chinese workers died during bomb blasts at a dam construction site in northern Burma&#8217;s Kachin state last April.

At least five million Chinese citizens are working around the world today, up more than forty per cent since 2005, and more than any time since the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic. Erickson and Collins predicted last August that &#8220;China&#8217;s ongoing anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden is arguably the first step in overseas military deployments to protect PRC citizens working overseas.&#8221; Sure enough, last week brought the news that China has dispatched the frigate Xuzhou from off the coast of Somalia to steam to the Libyan coast to help evacuate members of the roughly thirty thousand Chinese citizens in Libya. The move has attracted widespread attention because it was a dramatic demonstration of how the Chinese government intends to use its expanding naval power around the world.

American and British vessels have been evacuating their civilians from hotspots around the world for decades, but its now abundantly clear that we should acclimate to an age in which China will be doing the same. In Zambia, where Chinese investment has been cheered by the government, but also stoked repeated flare-ups from critics and workers, it&#8217;s easy to envision a scenario in which shots fired into a crowd trigger not simply a courtroom drama, but a larger backlash against the Chinese presence.

China is still getting accustomed to having so people working in dangerous&#8212;but profitable&#8212;places. The first time it ever faced a civilian evacuation was just eleven years ago, when a hundred and twenty Chinese citizens found themselves in the middle of ethnic tensions in the Solomon Islands. In that case, China rustled up a cargo ship and some flights, but it was a decidedly novice operation; a key part of the evacuation plan involved getting the telephone number of the local rebel chief to figure out which part of the city would be safest through which to pass. As Erickson and Collins noted last summer, &#8220;Apparently the PLAN&#8221;&#8212;the Chinese Navy&#8212;&#8220;may have been asked to send a vessel but was unable to do so.&#8221; What a difference a decade makes


Letter from China: The Chinese Navy, Zambian Copper, and Libya : The New Yorker

 

[Speeder 2]

Just saw UK Channel 4 reporting from both a Libya port and Libya-Tunisia border with a sea of fleeing civilians( i couldn't identify any Chinese/east asian there), within which featuring an India women (dressed poorly) sending 1 of her kids ( both around 4/5 yrs old) to a stranger or alike to across the another of the border / or ship --- ( it didn't show clearly), in order for her ( the kid) to have a better chance of survival, when asked upon by the C4 reporter...

Sad, isn't it?

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Just saw UK Channel 4 reporting from both a Libya port and Libya-Tunisia border with a sea of fleeing civilians( i couldn't identify any Chinese/east asian there), within which featuring an India women (dressed poorly) sending 1 of her kids ( both around 4/5 yrs old) to a stranger or alike to across the another of the border / or ship --- ( it didn't show clearly), in order for her ( the kid) to have a better chance of survival, when asked upon by the C4 reporter...

Sad, isn't it?

Yes and this never happens in China.

And see a 5 second clip on TV and then assume she is Indian because she is dressed poorly. Can I ask how did this poor "Indian" get into Libya?

Fantastic attempt to take the mic out of us buddy. Fair play and not surprised to read this.

 

[Speeder 2]

^^

poorly dressed: fact !

Looked depressed: fact !

Sent one of her 5 yrs children away : fact !

answered to the C4 reporter i such a way : fact !


A reasonable explaination:

lost her husband ( she appeared alone) in the way; walked by foot for days without proper food, water and rest..

So you want her to look like some cowliwood princess under such a situation?

Thus you and me, who is actually trying some "Fantastic attempt" or "desperate stunt " here ?