Tension rises as China scours the globe for energy

The Telegraph ^ | 19/11/2004 | Richard Spencer

[hattend]

BTTT

[patriciaruth]

Nuclear power plants are definitely part of the solution if countries don't use technology that generates atom bombs as a side line and if they are advanced enough to build and run them without Chernobles happening.

[patriciaruth]

That's what God did and that is how we got oil in the first place.

Actually there's an interesting theory that He might have done something else.

Coal is from plant life, but planets are often formed with lots of hydrocarbons in the mix in the first place. Oil may be part of the ancient natural layers of the Earth before life began and seeps up at tectonic plate fracture lines.

[patriciaruth]

Gotta get that energy somewhere to make all that crap that Walmart sells

No kidding. I kept picking up and putting things down at Walmart today because of Made in China on the back. I think my outdoor string of lights is just going to have to do without orange and white bulbs this Christmas.

My eyesight wasn't good enough to check where the movies I bought for the troops were made.

[moehoward]

Tom Clancy "The Bear and the Dragon" Bump.

[quietolong]

this was apologized too

The Sinking of Panay, 12 December 1937

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/PR/pr5-sinking.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/PR/PR-5_Panay.html

http://home.sandiego.edu/~pbugler/

[Reagan Disciple]

China is the gathering threat. They understand the Soviet system of economic isolation did not work and they are hoodwinking the world into thinking that the country is moving toward reform by allowing foreign brick & mortor investments. In reality, it is still hard communists pulling the strings and oppressing the people - they are sure not to have CNN televise it like they sis Tienemen Square.

The two most important allies in that we will have to stand by in the coming years are Israel and Taiwan. One is starting down the barrel of a terrorist gun, the other down the barrel of a communist gun. Both are security threats to the US.

[Haro_546]

I agree, The communist party embraced capitalism to survive. Our continue support of this policy, has brough freedom to the chinese people, although not completly I think we could not have come up with a better one.

[opocno]

Where is this article?

[F.J. Mitchell]

That's the shame of it all. God provides us an answer to our problems, and man finds a way to turn the cure into a killer.

[SunkenCiv]

Coal-to-liquid solution for energy woes
The StraitsTimes ^ | July 19, 2004 | David Dapice
Posted on 07/20/2004 9:27:15 AM PDT by Baby Bear
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174878/posts

[spinestein]

"The benefit is that over a billion people in China get a chance to live a better life. That's what capitalism is all about."



There are now over 1.4 billion people in China and as the country shifts from 3rd world to 1st their birthrate goes down. In the modernized parts of the country they have stopped having as many children (and this is independent of the mandatory abortions) while in the backwater areas the birthrate remains high.

Their new free markets and emerging freedoms are not illusions. The Chinese government knows that if they do not continue to relax their infringement of the citizens' liberties and continue to allow more access to private property and ownership of business and accumulation of wealth (slow though these reforms may be)then they are afraid that they will be dragged out of their palaces and strung up by those 1.4 billion people.

Just this year, the Chinese government changed their communist constitution and they now allow private ownership of business with the owner allowed to keep the profits. You might think "big deal" but I will bet that within the next decade China is a genuine capitalist democracy with an elected government accountable to the people, who would rather trade with the rest of the world than have wars with them.