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Monday 11.07.2005, CET 16:50 July 10, 2005 10:50 AM U.S. concerned about China military buildup - RiceBEIJING (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday the U.S. government, not just the Pentagon, had concerns about China's military buildup, but that it did not necessarily constitute a threat. Rice also said she had prodded China to engage with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader who lives in exile in India and who she said was not a threat. "There is no doubt that we have concerns about the size and pace of the Chinese military buildup and it's not...

China's nanotech revolution Alexandr Nemets 8/23/2004 Prior to 2000, the Chinese media made practically no mention of the concept of "nanotechnology" (nami jishu) or its potential for revolutionizing China's high tech industry. Today, however, dozens of major Chinese research centers and hundreds of enterprises engage in the production of nanotechnologies, which has quickly become a multibillion-Yuan industry. Concentrated in China's major economic centers such as Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hong Kong, these urban hubs account for some 90 percent of all nanotech Research and Development. The rapid development of China's nanotech industry is due in large part to the...

HONG KONG (AP) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday China is not a military threat to the United States. He also urged Beijing to do a better job explaining the benefits of cheap Chinese imports to American consumers. Speaking to delegates at the Pacific Basin Economic Council business conference, Powell said China's increase in weapons spending does not make it a threat to the United States. "The threat comes from the capability to execute these plans and the intention to do so," he said. "My analysis in the last four years is that China has no...

Rumsfeld Issues a Sharp Rebuke to China on Arms By THOM SHANKER Published: June 4, 2005 SINGAPORE, Saturday, June 4 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in an unusually blunt public critique of China, said Saturday that Beijing's military spending threatened the delicate security balance in Asia and called for an emphasis instead on political freedom and open markets.   Luis Enrique Ascui/Reuters Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at an Asian security conference dinner Friday night in Singapore with Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's prime minister from 1965 to 1990, who now serves as "minister mentor." In a keynote address at...

Senator Inhofe was given 55 mintes for this speech, which started around 4 minutes ago; 2:14 PM EST.

China’s top offshore oil and gas producer, CNOOC Ltd., will begin operations this year at a gas field in the East China Sea despite a territorial dispute with Japan. ..CNOOC Chairman Fu Chengyu told reporters on Tuesday he expected the Chunxiao field, located south of Japan, to begin operations in August and September... ....On Monday Japanese media reported Japan had demanded that China halt construction at the Chunxiao natural gas field. Hydrocarbon deposits were found in the early 1970s... In 2004 China’s construction of the Chunxiao natural gas production plant 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the disputed area aggravated tensions...

THE RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA 2005 UpdateBy Jeff Head, February 2005 As an update to the original "Rising Sea Dragon in Asia", that I publiushed in January of 2004 (and have been writing and warning about since 2000), I offer this update, dated in February of 2005. This report is fairly short and broad, and I believe does not contain the detail necessary to reflect the true scope of the emerging threat. But it does clearly indicate the nature and size of the current Red Chinese buildup, and their is only one principle power that such a buildup...