"Very good news indeed," a reader comments below the Zimbabwe Guardian's report on the Chinese and Russian veto of sanctions against the country at the UN security council.
Tendai Machokoto says:
"Zimbabwe should be allowed to resolve [its] own problems without interference by western powers. China and Russia should be congratulated for standing against western imperialism."
The vote has also made Robert Mugabe happy.
The state-run Herald newspaper suggests that Gordon Brown's efforts to win support for sanctions during this week's G8 summit are evidence of continued colonialism.
"It is a paternalistic attitude harking back to Kipling's days when the white world was barbaric and brazen enough to believe that they had a duty to help poor, ignorant non-whites because they did not have the good sense to know what was good for them."
Would sanctions have done any good? Or would they, rather than Mugabe's regime, have been blamed for the economic pain in the country?
And would they, as South Africa insists, put talks between the Zimbabwean political parties at risk?
What do you think?
