Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2016
6th August, 2016
Despite the recent US charm offensive against India, New Delhi has resisted the temptation, remaining committed to the BRICS ideal of multi-polarity. India maintains mutually beneficial relations with China, regardless of “brief bumps” in the relationship, geostrategic analyst Matthew Maavak told Sputnik.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
China is a long-term player in Venezuela’s energy future
23rd June, 2016
China’s continued financial support of Venezuela’s floundering government through oil-backed loan deals has been the subject of fierce criticism from the Venezuelan opposition, which has already taken steps towards a recall referendum to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office.
By providing a lifeline to a regime with scant financing options in order to ensure preferential access to Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves, China has been accused of acting as a neo-colonial power. The opposition has denounced that closer ties have also paved the way for an invasion of cheap, so-called “made in China” manufactured products which have negatively impacted Venezuelan industry.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
23rd November, 2015
The opposition Labor Party has stepped forward as the most vociferous critic of the conservative Coalition government’s failure to consult with the Obama administration before a 99-year lease over Darwin’s commercial port was granted to the Chinese-owned Landbridge Group.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
“In March Australia tightened its foreign takeover rules to ensure all sales of ports, electricity networks and other public infrastructure were scrutinised by the Foreign Investment Review Board. This followed the contentious A$506m sale to China’s Landbridge Group of a 99-year lease on Darwin port — a strategically important area as US marines are stationed at a nearby naval base — without a formal review by Firb.”
“Mr Xenophon expressed concern about State Grid’s market dominance if its bid was successful. He also asked whether Canberra had sought the advice of the intelligence and defence forces in relation to the proposed sale, adding that he intended to table a bill to tighten Australia’s foreign investment rules when parliament resumed.”
24th July, 2016
The newly elected government of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set for its first big test on foreign investment, with two Chinese companies bidding for control of the country’s largest electricity network.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
4th July, 2016
Bookmakers have shortened their odds that Article 50 — the two-year notice period the must give to officially leave the EU — will never be triggered.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
“A prolonged period of diminishing influence and relative economic decline is now the likely future for our nearest neighbour. The pressure point this time will not be the threat to sterling exposed by a furious US President, but rather the threat from a diversion of FDI flows seeking secure access to the EU single market.”
We need to go as far away as Dublin to find a journalist who can nonchalantly state the obvious. Thank you, John Looby!
He also rounds the argument off nicely:
“In the longer-run, this will likely see a new generation of pragmatic leaders lead the UK back into the EU. As Heath, Jenkins and others ultimately understood in the wake of Suez, they have nowhere else to go.”
I couldn’t have put it better myself!
John Looby
4th August, 2016
Almost 60 years ago a popular and experienced Tory Prime Minister destroyed his career and plunged his country into crisis with a reckless risk which backfired spectacularly. While the retreat from Empire was never likely to be smooth, the stark weakness exposed by the debacle of Suez undoubtedly accelerated the long march to the margins.
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Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2016
M.K.Bhadrakumar
3rd August, 2016
A new framework of regional cooperation will be taking shape in India’s neighbourhood when the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran meet in Baku for a summit meeting on August 8. The Kremlin readout acknowledges this and says the three leaders will discuss “current issues on the international and regional political agenda and prospects for establishing practical cooperation, particularly in energy and transport”. (Kremlin website)
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2016
The May government is only one of a series of new governments which are reviewing their relations with China. We now have Argentina, Brazil, the UK, , possibly Australia and, of course, the USA.
27th November, 2015
Change is promised in a number of areas of government by Argentina’s new president-elect Mauricio Macri and foreign relations – in particular the country’s links with China – will be no exception. Macri has left open the possibility of reviewing, even cancelling, theraft of deals on energy and infrastructure signed by the two countries earlier this year.
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2016
16th May, 2016
A member of a Zimbabwean opposition party has called for all Chinese nationals to be kicked out of the southern African country.
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2016
2nd August, 2016
HANGZHOU, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan has warned of offshore security threats and called for substantial preparation for a “people’s war at sea” to safeguard sovereignty.
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Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2016
Why the DUP needs to stop gloating about Brexit and put people before party for once
3rd August, 2016
The border was, in a sense, put to bed with the Good Friday Agreement. The constitutional question that had dogged our history and was central to the Troubles was neutralised in so far as all parties to the Agreement accepted the consent principle and that any change to the constitutional status quo could only come about by the consent of the majority of the electorate in Northern Ireland by way of a referendum agreeing to a united Ireland.
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