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From Knight-Ridder: Barely a dozen years ago, when China’s lamps still burned low, the country didn’t need deep-sea oil ports, massive tank farms and a brawny foreign policy to procure oil in far-flung spots. Today, China is an oil-guzzling dragon with a voracious thirst. Supertankers stretching three football fields in length now wait to enter […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: …Faced with this waking up of the mysterious oriental dragon, some in the international community always exaggerate and pan-politicalize things and trace them back to the core of “China threat theory”. Even the “Super Girl” phenomenon was surprisingly branded “democracy”. We say that for a country like China which has an enduring […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: With a booming economy to match its global ambitions, China is elbowing its way in to join the scramble for Africa’s untapped oil riches. On the same continent where Cold War enemies the United States and the Soviet Union once sparred through proxy regimes and armies, Chinese oil executives now jostle with western […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via MSNBC.com: Chinese were told Thursday of yet another contaminated river incident ” this one due to pig excrement. Domestic media reported that homes in a rural area of southwest China were allowed to turn the water back on this week after pig waste flooded a local river and forced water supplies to […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China might be the world’s third-ranked trading nation and a superpower in the making, but when it comes to the international trade talks taking place here on Chinese soil, Beijing’s representatives are all but invisible. Rather than play a leading role at the World Trade Organization ministerial talks this week, […]
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