MoBay women died unaware they were related
Nagra Plunkett, Assignment Coordinator
Western Bureau:
They died together, unaware that the bond they had struck up a month ago ran deeper than mere friendship, and that they were connected by blood.
This is one of the surprising revelations from the gruesome murders of 20-year-old Jannoy Campbell and her 25-year-old niece, Nyoka Campbell, of Mount Salem and Hendon, Glendevon, addresses, respectively, in Montego Bay, St James.
“So I lose my firstborn child and my baby sister,” Nyoka’s father, Glenford, told The Gleaner yesterday. His father is Jannoy’s biological father, but she lived with her mother and stepdad.
“It’s really tough and is when we went to the morgue to identify (Nkoya’s) body that we realise that the other girl was related to us.”
Headed to champs
The young women were students at the Western Hospitality Institute in Montego Bay and left their home parish last Friday afternoon to attend the 2012 staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championship in Kingston.
The trip had become customary for Jannoy in recent years except that this time around, she reportedly accepted a ride from Nyoka, who said her brother would be transporting them. But the women reached only as far as Old Harbour in St Catherine where their bodies were found in bushes last Saturday.
Nyoka’s mother, Gloria Thane, was in the dark about her daughter’s plans as she was “secretive” – a mannerism that she always argued about.
Jannoy was found naked with multiple stab wounds to the chest and her throat slashed, while Nyoka was badly beaten and had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the right side of her face.
“Why them have to do me pickney so?” asked Jannoy’s mother, Dawnette Atkinson between tears. “Me count five stabs in her chest. If I was there, I would take them.”
Unanswered phone calls
According to Atkinson, she knew something was amiss when they shared their final conversation about 11:45 p.m. last Friday. The mother said she felt perturbed by her daughter’s tone of voice, and the anxiety heightened when subsequent calls to Jannoy’s cellular phone went unanswered.
Atkinson and her common-law husband, Anthony Bartley, went to the Montego Freeport Police Station Saturday morning and filed a missing person report. But by late afternoon, they received the dreaded call from the Old Harbour police.
“Jannoy was a good child. Mannerly, respectful and she never go over her bounds. Now we just a try to cope because this is the best of me,” said her stepfather, with whom she had lived since she was a toddler.
“I would just like them catch the one or ones who do it, then me will feel justified. But for now, human rights (groups) only look at one side of the coin. They need to look at this, trust me.”
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China Doesn’t Think The U.S. Is That Awesome
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Although both Beijing and Washington consider the U.S.-China relationship to be the most important in the world, distrust of each other’s long term intentions has grown to a dangerous degree, says a new report from Brookings. The New York Times reports on what the Chinese really think:

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Kenneth Rapoza
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The senior leadership of the Chinese government increasingly views the competition between the United States and China as a zero-sum game, with China the likely long-range winner if the American economy and domestic political system continue to stumble, according to an influential Chinese policy analyst.

China views the United States as a declining power, but at the same time believes that Washington is trying to fight back to undermine, and even disrupt, the economic and military growth that point to China’s becoming the world’s most powerful country, according to the analyst, Wang Jisi, the co-author of “Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust,” a monograph published this week by the Brookings Institution in Washington and the Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University.

The United States is no longer seen as “that awesome, nor is it trustworthy, and its example to the world and admonitions to China should therefore be much discounted,” Mr. Wang writes of the general view of China’s leadership.

NYT also notes that it is “rare for a Chinese analyst who is not part of the strident nationalistic drumbeat to strip away the official talk by both the United States and China about mutual cooperation.” Wang is considered a Chinese foreign policy insider from his positions on advisory boards of the Chinese Communist Party and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also director of the Center for International Strategic Studies and dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University.

Selected comments from Wang, again for emphasis, a Chinese foreign policy insider:

America’s “meddling” in the South China Sea territorial disputes by asserting freedom of navigation concerns there is particularly disturbing to Beijing.

In Beijing’s interpretation, many of Washington’s latest actions in Asia, including the decisions to deploy U.S. marines in Darwin, Australia, encourage Myanmar (Burma) to loosen domestic political control, and strengthen military ties with the Philippines, are largely directed at constraining China.

While the Obama Administration has reassured the Chinese leadership that it has no intention of containing China, the U.S. Navy and Air Force have intensified their close-in surveillance activities against China. At times, U.S. spy planes and ships are so close to Chinese borders that the PLA is seriously alarmed at operational levels. The Chinese military leadership views these activities as deliberately provocative.

Leading Chinese observers continue to view U.S. policy toward China as aimed to “Westernize” and “divide” the country.

It is now a question of how many years, rather than how many decades, before China replaces the United States as the largest economy in the world.

Many Chinese political elites suspect that it is the United States that is “on the wrong side of history.”

It is a popular notion among Chinese political elites, including some national leaders, that China’s development model provides an alternative to Western democracy and experiences for other developing countries to learn from.

The China Model, or Beijing Consensus, features an all-powerful political leadership that effectively manages social and economic affairs, in sharp contrast to some countries.

Clearly, Wang is not one to beat around the bush.

The Brookings report (read it) comes as China announced it will join Russia in naval war games starting later this month in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, reportedly to promote regional cooperation and check U.S. influence.
The U.S., meanwhile, will be conducting military drills with the Philippines a few weeks from now near disputed territory in the South China Sea. The Philippine government is also rebuilding a seaport in the Spratly Islands, a site analysts say could easily become a U.S. military outpost.

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