Posted by seumasach on January 22, 2017
17th January, 2017
Jan. 16, 2017 (EIRNS)—In a speech to the Asia Financial Forum in Hong Kong today, China Investment Corporation chairman Ding Xuedong said that CIC wants to change its holdings of U.S. Treasury debt, into an investment in building of new infrastructure in the United States. Ding’s speech was reported in the South China Morning Post, Reuters, and other media.
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Posted by seumasach on September 19, 2015
The US and China Just Made a Deal To Build High-Speed Rail Between LA and Vegas
17th September, 2015
Americans could one day soon cruise between two major cities in the western US on a mega-fast train at 150 mph, thanks to a new agreement between a private US venture and a consortium led by China Railway Group.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2015
Chinese auto industry looking to strengthen ties with Detroit automakers, parts suppliers
13th June, 2014
China’s automotive industry needs to increase its spending on research and development and strengthen its joint venture ties with U.S. automotive manufacturers, a top Chinese automotive official said today in Troy.
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Posted by seumasach on November 11, 2014
“Chinese leaders have put forward a new model of “major-country relationship” between China and the United States, an intellectual framework for resolving one of the greatest puzzles in international history — how to avoid falling into the so-called Thucydides trap, the often-cited cycle of struggle between rising and established powers.”
11th November, 2014
President Obama arrived in Beijing on Monday for a meeting of the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation forum. He will meet with China’s president, Xi Jinping, at length on Wednesday. The occasion is a vital opportunity for the two presidents to reset the relationship between the nations.
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Posted by seumasach on May 14, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
13th May, 2014
The announcement over the weekend by the Pentagon that the chief of the general staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army Fang Fenghui is visiting the United States this week will be noted widely in the Asia-Pacific region — Hanoi, Manila and Tokyo in particular.
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Posted by seumasach on May 13, 2014
The heart of the matter is that paradigm shifts often take time to sink in. There is a shift in the US foreign policies taking place under the Obama presidency, which is away from its ‘militarization’. David Sanger of the New York Times recently wrote, “Obama acknowledges, at least in private conversations that he is managing an era of American retrenchment.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
9th May, 2014
The dust has settled down sooner than one would have thought on the US President Barack Obama’s four-nation Asia tour, and the inevitable stocktaking is well under way. Obama earmarked an entire week for the trip that took him to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2014
But, as well as a Eurasian revolution it must force a European revolution. Kerry latest speech imposes impossible demands on Europe: a rise in NATO spending per member and the opening of the European market to GM crops and fracking. Popular protests against austerity are going to have to focus on these issues, all the more so since it is now clear, in the light of the Ukraine fiasco, that the European leadership is compromised and unable to lead Europe towards independent policy.
Francesco Sisci
30th April, 2014
BEIJING – It has not happened yet, but expectations are already enormous. A massive strategic and economic shift is expected to result from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s to China in May.
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Posted by seumasach on April 18, 2014
A new cold war led by the USA has become a fashionable theme. However, core US diplomacy has consistently contradicted such a scenario. The USA, more than Europe, needs to reach out to the BRICS for its own salvation. The problem is that vested interests, the imperial state if you like, continue to rely on a strategy of geopolitical tension. But the CIA, the neo-cons, the Israel lobby, the Military Industrial Complex and their congressional representatives have emerged from the fiascos in Syria, Venezuela and Ukraine embittered and weakened. This should enable Obama to pursue policies in accord with US national interests whereby US retreat from empire is rewarded by inward investment from China and others. For that surplus to be available a new motor of global development must emerge which can only be the Eurasian economic space from Shanghai to Lisbon. The resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, the first step of which was completed at Geneva yesterday, will facilitate this happy development. Certainly Russia and China are emerging as leading global players but their prime goal is geo-strategic partnership with the USA. By an agonised path Obama is positioning himself to reciprocate
17th April, 2014
In the present confrontation between Russia and the West over the Ukrainian crisis, the image of the Cold War inevitably comes to mind and the media are obviously fond of it. However, contrary to what it gives us to understand, it’s not Russia that seeks the return of an iron curtain but really the US. An iron curtain separating the old powers and emerging nations; the world before and the world afterwards; debtors and creditors. And this in the crazy hope of preserving the American way of life and the US’ influence over “its” camp in the absence of being able to impose it on the whole world. In other words, go down with as many companions as possible to give the impression of not sinking.
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Posted by seumasach on December 10, 2013
Peter Mattis
9th December, 2013
On November 23, Beijing announced that a new air defense identification zone (ADIZ) would go into effect over the East China Sea, overlapping existing Japanese and South Korean ADIZ, requiring all air traffic passing through the zone to file flight information irrespective of its destination. Despite eliciting strong responses from Tokyo and Washington as well as restrained but negative responses from Seoul, Taipei and Canberra, China claimed the ADIZ was a routine measure for improving awareness of its airspace and protecting its national security without any ulterior motive.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
Bill Mundell
6th June, 2013
See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!
When Chinese President Xi Jinping meets President Obama tomorrow at Sunnylands, California, the agenda will likely be populated with the same issues that have dogged the relationship for years – currency values, North Korea, protection of intellectual property, human rights – and some newer ones that have heated up recently, such as cyber-security and conflict in the South China Sea.
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Posted by seumasach on June 13, 2013
“The US needs to rebuild its infrastructure, which is putting a huge brake on its development; and China needs to hedge its US investments from inflation or devaluation. Then a part of the trillions of dollars of Chinese foreign reserves could be turned into minority stakes in US infrastructure.”
Francesco Sisci
11th June, 2013
BEIJING – Openings over the environment, closer collaboration on North Korea, and no mention of the prickly issue of human rights: at the weekend summit between US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the US seemed to pick up where ties got derailed – that is, in Copenhagen in December 2009, when Obama and then prime minister Wen Jiabao failed to reach an agreement on the environment. Xi reciprocated by demanding respect for the new status of his country and reopening the sensitive and important military dialogue.
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