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President Hu Jintao And Others Arrive for APEC Summit
Some president or something or whatever they have over there from one of those Northern Hemisphere countries arrived in Sydney at 10 p.m yesterday evening to participate in an APEC meeting with 20 other world leaders, on the same day that Chinese President Hu Jintao set down 300 kilometres away in Canberra for a little light pre-summit diplomacy. Whoever the fook the monkey-looking fellow is who pulled up in Sydney last night he's not popular, judging by the unprecedented security operation, and nor is whatever parochial backwater he comes from - the newsreader said something like 'Uwessay', but there was no reference to any country of this name when we Googled it. Large parts of the city have been shut down to allow this dangerously anti-social chieftain of whichever godforsaken region to be transported in a thirty-car motorcade through the streets. They're obviously not above primitive status displays and quaint demonstrations of overt power where he's from, and we advanced industrialised nations like to humour those from less enlightened cultures, which after all are preserving these anachronistic modes of existence as a kind of historical document of a way of life we once shared.
It fair warms the heart to see that even as far away as Australia 'el Presidente' of whatever little tinpot satrapy this simple individual hails from has a friend: a lone supporter has emerged, waving a banner and proclaiming his approval to anyone who will hear him. In honour of this fine gesture the police have allowed the solitary figure to conduct his lonely vigil inside the barricades erected to prevent any attack or injury. It's important to make 'the President' - who has his own aircraft! Well done! - feel important, if only for a little while, before he returns to whatever topsy-turvy flyblown, flea-infested, locust-plagued, fat-powered, consumerist wasteland he calls home.
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