22.09, 21:58 Chinese officials have lashed out at the Obama administration after the president of the United States pledged to offer the Taiwan military nearly $6 billion in upgrades.
17.09, 01:18 China is showing concern after the United States has agreed to supply Taiwan with an aircraft fleet, which could potentially change not just the relationship between China and the US, but Taiwan and the rest of Asia.
26.08, 20:11 Born in Atlanta, killed in Memphis and made in China.
18.08, 01:41 Massive resources of oil lay under the surface of Alberta, Canada. With the Great White North already the largest foreign supplier of oil to the US, it would make sense for America to ink a deal that would pipe that product right over the border.
19.08, 00:35 Even with Osama bin Laden out of the picture, America still has some big problems to worry about abroad. For one, there is still that looming threat of the Soviet Union. That’s what Michele Bachmann thinks, at least.
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02.09, 01:48 Despite support from President Obama, a solar-panel manufacturer in California is closing its doors and laying off more than a thousand employees, citing foreign competition as the impetus that has made domestic production no longer “scalable.”
Published: 30 September, 2011, 23:04
Myanmar, Tang pre: Myanmar workers standing on the bank of the Irrawaddy river in the country's northernmost Kachin state. Myanmar's president on September 30, 2011 ordered a halt to construction of a controversial 3.6 billion USD mega dam following rare public opposition to the Chinese-backed hydropower project. (AFP Photo) TAGS: Scandal, Asia, Protest, Politics, China, Corruption, USA, Resources, Infrastructure, WikiLeaks, Culture The United States has extended its power of influence deep into Asia, as new WikiLeaks cables released reveal that the US embassy in Rangoon helped keep a dam planned by the Chinese from being built.
The People’s Republic of China was considered one of the largest funders of a massive would-be hydroelectric project on the Irrawaddy river in Burma that could have had a major impact on the Chinese people. The project was halted, however, after activists in the Burmese region successfully campaigned to thwart the construction.
The newest cables released reveal that the US helped fund those activists and played a major role in keeping the dam from being built.
According to a cable dated January 2010, local activists had "voiced strong opposition to the project on economic, environmental and cultural grounds and have organized grassroots campaigns to rally others to their cause.” Those activists received support out of the US embassy to pursue their protests.
"An unusual aspect of this case is the role grassroots organizations have played in opposing the dam, which speaks to the growing strength of civil society groups in Kachin state, including recipients of embassy small grants,” adds the diplomatic cable, which is signed-off on by US charge d'affaires, Larry Dinger.
In the cable, Dinger acknowledges that while the project would also benefit the people of Burma, the US considered it a mainly Chinese project as the nation was responsible for a bulk of the funding.
The Chinese have been quick to take on America’s international affairs as of late, recently blasting the Obama administrating for approving millions of dollars in upgrades to the Taiwanese air force. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said at the time that the deal “will inevitably undermine bilateral relations as well as exchanges and cooperation in military and security areas.”
30.09, 21:24 After a quarter of a century, scientists operating underneath the surface of the Earth today will pull the plug on Tevatron, bringing the massive atom smasher to a screeching halt.
30.09, 23:06 Hey kids! Sick of Bert and Ernie and Dora and Disney? Uncle Glenn is here to help!
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