Of Beijing and Belgrade

Of course China sides with those who are resisting violent Islamist secessionism. Good for China. Shame on the three permanent members of the UN Security Council who are signed up in support of Kosovo's Islamist-Maoist-Nazism. Shame, perhaps especially, on the heirs of Charles Martel. And shame on Serbia for not sticking to her guns, so to speak, and boycotting today's ceremony in Oslo, at which a man was honoured in absentia who wants to maintain the one-party state in China.

Our indiscriminate attitude towards those who happened to oppose the regimes then current at Moscow and Pretoria, regardless of what they happened to want instead, is not only still in place, but has also extended to Alija Izetbegovic and his successors, to Franjo Tudjman and his, to the unreconstructed Stalinists who took over Romania, to Robert Mugabe, to Salvador Allende and his partisans, to Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, to the forces unleashed by the removal of Saddam Hussein, to numerous factions on both sides of the Israel-Palestine dispute, to the Saudi proxies in Lebanon, to both Sunni Islamist terrorists (Jundullah) and Ba'athist terrorists (the PMOI) in Iran, to the non-exiled Cuban pimps and drug lords in Miami, and to many, many, many other besides.

Not least in China.