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By Huang Peizhao in Cairo and Li Ying in Beijing China Thursday expressed confidence in Yemeni authorities' ability to bring rising unrest under control, while calling for dialogue to quell anti-regime demonstrations across the country. China believes the Yemeni government has the competence to properly handle the issue and restore social stability and normality at an early date, foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said to reporters. China is concerned with developments in Yemen and call for all parties in Yemen to resolve their disputes through dialogue and other peaceful means to avoid bloodshed and conflict, she added. Republican Guard forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed yesterday with defected army forces for the second time in the southeast province of Hadramout, leaving at least three soldiers injured, according to the Xinhua News Agency. "China has always kept a nonintervention policy when it comes to other countries' domestic affairs," Yin Gang, a Middle East expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times. "Of course, interventions from Western countries should also be denounced." Yemen's Parliament approved on Wednesday a state of emergency declared by the president, despite an appeal from young Yemenis that it could trigger a new "massacre" aimed at quelling their anti-regime protests, while Britain and Germany both said they are removing all but a "small core" of staff from their embassy in Sana'a, expecting violence in the capital in the coming days. Ahmed Al Ali, an expert at the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, told the Global Times that economic development is actually what the country needs. "Both the government and people in Yemen should realize that protests and clashes are not necessary," Ali said. "While the country is losing stability, people are losing their chance to lead better lives as well." During his visit Wednesday to Cairo, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saleh's help is appreciated in the fight against Islamic radicals, namely Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, but he also noted that many Yemenis are fed up with Saleh's authoritarian rule after 32 years. He also said the White House has no idea what will happen if a regime change occurs in Yemen, according to ABC News Radio. Yin pointed out that the situation in Yemen is much more complicated than in Egypt or Libya. "The regime has to keep peace through a fragile balance of tribal relations, because no one tribe or sect has been able to establish an identity for the Yemeni state until now," Yin said. "The US needs time to deal with it, once the current Yemeni leader departs." Wang Qiong and agencies contributed to this story |
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