Falklands at centre of UK, Argentina, Brazil, China spat

Brasilia: Brazil has defended its decision to allow British military planes flying to the Falklands Islands to stop at its airports, landings that annoyed Argentina.

The Brazilian Foreign Ministry said that while it backed Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the islands, that support does not affect its “important partnership” with Britain.

Argentina’s ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, last week complained over the increase in flights stopping in Brazil on their way to the Falklands Islands, which Argentina calls the Malvinas.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Argentinian counterpart Alberto Fernandez issued the statement on Sunday saying China “reaffirms its support for Argentina’s demand for the full exercise of sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands”. The two leaders met as Fernandez was in Beijing for the Winter Olympics.

Argentina believes the Falklands were illegally taken from it in 1833 and invaded the British colony in 1982. The United Kingdom sent troops and Argentina lost the 74-day war for the South Atlantic archipelago in a conflict that claimed the lives of 649 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers, and three Falklanders.

London says the Falklands are a self-governing entity under its protection.

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China meddling once again.

"Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert"

brezhnev took afghanistan
begin took beirut
galtieri took the union jack
and maggie over lunch one day
took a cruiser with all hands
apparently to make him give it back

"The Fletcher Memorial Home"

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
and they can appear to themselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
it's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
mr. brezhnev and party
the ghost of mccarthy
the memories of nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin
american meat packing glitterati"
did they expect us to treat them with any respect
they can polish their medals and sharpen their
smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
with their favourite toys
they'll be good girls and boys
in the fletcher memorial home for colonial
wasters of life and limb
is everyone in?
are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied