Sha Zukang, China's Top U.N. Diplomat, Goes On Drunken Rant Against Americans

China's top-ranking U.N. diplomat Sha Zukang rather undiplomatically launched a drunken rant against U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during a dinner at a U.N. retreat last week which left officials cringing, according to reports.

"I know you never liked me, Mr. Secretary-General," Sha reportedly said during his roughly 15-minute rant at the retreat in Austria. "Well, I never liked you, either."

According to reports, Ban nodded awkwardly as other U.N. officials tried to convince the 62-year-old Sha to put down the microphone. Yet Sha, who was appointed the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs in 2007, insisted on continuing -- and, as if for good measure, he then laid into American U.N. official Bob Orr. " I don't really like him," Sha said. "He's an American, and I really don't like Americans."

Fortunately, a presumably worse-for-the-wear Sha likely realized he'd let the mask of diplomacy slip amidst the liquor the next day, and requested a meeting with Ban, during which he was said to be "deeply apologetic," according to Farhan Haq, the acting deputy U.N. spokesman.

Comments

[AN2009]

09:16 PM on 09/20/2010

Looks like some wimpy moderator can't take a critical comment. What a joke.

[ched]

01:24 AM on 09/18/2010

Surprised Wen and the Council would allow such a booze-hound to sit at the UN. Will be even more surprised if old Sha isn't recalled before long (but not too soon, lest it appear they are kowtowing to foreign pressure).

[Layman23]

07:26 PM on 09/13/2010

But, i guess he likes all the american corporations and their job creating spree in China.

[Speakingaloud]

11:23 AM on 09/29/2010

haha..I dont think so, his job not assigned by american corporations. But one thing is obviously that most of chinese people like the american, and what you said could be one of the many reasons.

[StopMakingSense2]

04:05 PM on 09/13/2010

Now you know why the Japanese don't like to do business with you until they have gotten you hammered and get to see the real you.

[sizgorich]

03:39 PM on 09/13/2010

I like Chinese people ...insofar as they are discernible as individual human beings.

[mike72]

05:45 PM on 09/13/2010

I took many trips to China and found them extremely chaotic, lively and yes individualistic. To a large extend, they are more expressive than most Americans in many fronts, INCLUDING politics. The reason that you have the perception of China as one single block is to a large extend a continuous and pervasive brain wash by the "free" US media.

Take a break; Go visit China and you will have your eyes open, just like when Neo wakes up from the Matrix.

[sizgorich]

06:55 PM on 09/13/2010

Oh, no doubt. I just meant that I like Chinese people I know as individuals--I was trying to make the banal point that speaking of liking or disliking "Americans" or "Chinese" as a group is kind of weird.

[AN2009]

07:47 PM on 09/20/2010

Brain wash? Like the Chinese media is any better. Lol.

[brady01]

03:25 PM on 09/13/2010

Hahaha. Remember the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies? All the marching in rows and matching outfits? How hard the Chinese regime worked to make their people appear all organized and disciplined? Well they're not going to like this guy.

[Speakingaloud]

11:10 AM on 09/29/2010

Sorry, we are not like you said, what a pity, hahahh

[Marcus Aurelius]

01:23 PM on 09/13/2010

Whatever the man really thinks about Ban or Americans, letting statements like that slip is incredibly unprofessional.

[Speakingaloud]

11:13 AM on 09/29/2010

Just let you know one thing: his words cannot stand for the most of other chinese people.

[Bickerstaff]

01:08 PM on 09/13/2010

In vino, veritas.

[Guatemaladreams]

12:32 PM on 09/13/2010

Nobody really likes Americans except other Americans.

[ThaGovna]

02:10 PM on 09/13/2010

And all the Guatemalans who want to be Americans.

Yeah…

[wedgie]

03:05 PM on 09/13/2010

Lots of people like Americans. Seriously. They just don't like the ones with guns. Or the ones who collapse the global economy. Or the bigots.

[JayMonaco]

12:05 PM on 09/13/2010

Ohhh, drinking at the UN...the potential is LIMITLESS.

This guy is hilarious.

And for all of you who think it's strange for a senior diplomat to be half in the bag, let's not forget that all the Allied decisions of World War II were made by individuals who were basically perma-drunk.

[Hooty owl]

11:51 AM on 09/13/2010

Hahahahahahahahaha
Nothing about this isn't funny.

[meeks]

11:26 AM on 09/13/2010

Reminds me of Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family.

[methodman]

10:31 AM on 09/13/2010

Mr.Zhukang is on to a good idea. Maybe the UN needs a good political roastt. Let everyone get together and insult each other and get a director in their like Carl Reiner or Mel Brooks. Maybe that is the next way start out mad libbing the 2000 and one old man.

[wedgie]

03:07 PM on 09/13/2010

Perfect. A roast. Lots of boy rape jokes for the Afghanistan Ambassador. That sort of thing.

[Jeff Forsythe]

09:21 AM on 09/13/2010

I do not think that average Americans would be too happy to find out that their Government allows its greedy corporations to trade with the filthy Chinese Communist Party if they knew the extent of the Party's cruelty. By the use of slavery and torture and even organ harvesting, the Party uses forced labor to steal American jobs.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday, Mar.16, 2010, urging the Chinese Communist Party to end its decade-long campaign against Falun Gong and expressing solidarity with victims of persecution in China.

House Resolution 605 recognizes, “the continued persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China on the 11th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party campaign to suppress the Falun Gong spiritual movement and calling for an immediate end to the campaign to persecute, intimidate, imprison, and torture Falun Gong practitioners.” “The Falun Gong spiritual discipline is based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance,” said Ros-Lehtinen. “Yet these innocents are brutally targeted by the Chinese regime. The stark reality which this resolution addresses gives new meaning to the phrase 'Butchers of Beijing.’
Thank you for your consideration.

[Istok]

11:34 AM on 09/13/2010

OK troll. I guess you were waiting for days to find a forum that matched your topic.
Let me humor you though.
Most Americans could care less and we have a statistic (trade deficit) to prove it. See your thinking could be a double edged sword for Americans. What if the world stopped buying products from us based on our war in Iraq and the dead Iraqi bodies (estimated as high as a million) as a result of it?

[globalcooperativeforum]

12:17 PM on 09/13/2010

There is actually quite a similarity (and sympathy) between communism and the corporations which have taken over the U.S. government.
They are both unaccountable tyrannies of elite power, or totalitarian.
They both have neo-Hegelian roots; the power of the group over the individual.
And the power of both, at the very least, must be "moderated", if not dissolved.

" I see in the near future a crises approaching that unnerves me
and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . .
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high in places will follow,
and the money power in the country will endeavor to prolong its reign
by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

see
http://www.archive.org/details/NoamChomsky-Hungary2004
http://www.archive.org/details/NoamChomsky-critiqueOfMadisonianDemocracy-1997
http://www.amend14.org
http://www.globalcooperativeforum.net
bsanandaATyahooDOTcom

[yatahayaz]

02:07 PM on 09/13/2010

Snopes proved the fallacy of this quote back in 2007. It was created in the presidential campaign of 1896, to admonish the gold standard-bearers.

[life-of-riley]

09:13 AM on 09/13/2010

So that's it then: members of the New World Socialist Government - fine dining at posh resorts - getting drunk and deciding World affairs.

[JayMonaco]

12:00 PM on 09/13/2010

If only it WERE a New World Socialist Government. Really this is just a drunken Chinese dude.