Posted on 08/22/2013 6:32:27 PM PDT by TexGrill
Western-funded green groups are wrongly accusing mainland companies of causing environment destruction and creating social problems in Southeast Asia to restrain China's economic influence in countries along the Mekong River, a top government think tank claims in a new report published yesterday.
Two studies, part of a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences annual report on co-operation and development in the Greater Mekong sub-region, admitted that agricultural, mining and hydro projects with Chinese investment had caused adverse environmental impact in countries including Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.
But international environmental groups working in the region, most of which receive funding from Western countries, were also "irresponsibly attacking Chinese investors and misleading local communities with biased reports", aimed at limiting China's economic influence in the region, the studies said.
Such negative publicity, without granting Chinese companies an opportunity to reply, could also cripple China's global investment ambitions outside the Mekong region, the studies warned.
China has already suffered economic losses after several Chinese-funded projects - including the Myitsone Dam and a copper mine in Myanmar and a real estate project in Cambodia - were either suspended or scrapped following protests over environmental concerns by local communities.
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US government needs to stop funding “NGO’s”
Popcorn time as the CHICOMS will make short work of them.
GOOD, it serves them right, they import their Shi# products, and we export our Liberals.. Now thats a great trade, but they might really cause a war.. Ops.. LOL
Exporting American Liberalism.
Meanwhile Chinese-funded “green” groups shut down mines in the USA to cement China’s monopoly on rare earth elements...
Popcorn time.
The same thing goes for gay groups in the PR China. They are unwelcome there.
You got that right. I still remember the time I saw 2 Chinese cops confront a bike rider waving the rainbow flag. It didn’t help the guy either that the rainbow flag looks similar to the Free Tibet movement flag. His bike was thrown into the river, the cops burned the flag while smoking and he got arrested after they beat him up. A crowd of spectators observed with humor, thinking he was a Free Tibet supporter. These folks don’t get much sympathy in Beijing.
Putin is not opposed to homosexuality because he has any morals or is a truly believing Christian - its because as a former member of the Communist regime and a KGB agent, he knows it is really a masked political movement, which will be used as a wedge to divide and weaken his government.
He’s probably been involved in doing the same thing to the USA or Western Europe. China certainly will not allow such things to happen either.
The vast difference being that environmental consciousness and opposition to risky practices is greatly needed in China, and is simply counter-productive and useless in America. On a clear-weather day in most parts of southern China, you can barely see for 1-2 miles. In America, our formerly-worst areas, like Gary, IN and LA (see the Smog Clouds in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons), are now about as clear as anywhere else in the US.
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