Posted on 01/31/2007 9:25:43 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
Just 5,000 to 6,000 Chinese doing the jobs Tibetens will not do?
Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga.
The real reason behind the Chinese building that railroad in Tibet, besides it being helpful in reorganising its ethnic composition:
http://www.mineweb.net/int_beat/601850.htm
Massive metals deposits revealed along China’s Qinghai-Tibet Railway
By: Dorothy Kosich
Posted: '29-JAN-07 09:00' GMT © Mineweb 1997-2006
RENO, NV (Mineweb.com) --Chinese geologists have disclosed one of the closely-held secrets that motivated the nation to spend US$3.7 billion on the Tibet railway: the discovery of large mineral deposits that may reduce the nation’s dependence on mineral imports.
Critics had long questioned China’s claim that the development of Tibet was the sole reason behind the building of the 1,956-km Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Now, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported that Meng Xiani, director of the China Geological Survey (CGS), has revealed that 16 large copper, lead, zinc, iron iron and crude oil deposits along the railway are expected to yield 18 million tons of copper, and 10 million tons of lead and zinc.
One copper deposit on Qulong has a proven reserve of 7.89 million tons, second only to the country’s largest copper mine in Dexing in China’s Jiangxi Province. The CGS believes the copper reserves in Quolong could reach 18 million tons, making it the largest copper deposit in the country.
Zhang said three major copper deposits in Qulong and in Yunan Province’s Pulang and Yangla regions, will add 26.78 million tons of copper to China’s reserves, increase total mined copper output by almost a third, and reduce China’s dependence on copper imports. China’s copper miners currently produce about 600,000 tons of copper annually. The nation imported another 731,200 tons of refined copper from January to November last year, more than a quarter of its domestic output.
Chinese steel mills are extremely dependent on imported iron ore. The Chinese Geological Survey announced it has found estimated reserves of 760 million tons of high-grade iron ore along the rail line in the Kunglun Mountain on the western Qinghai-Tibet plateau and the southern Xinjiang Province, according to Deputy Director Zhang Hongtao.
Zhang also noted that the Midwestern part of the northern Qiangtang Basin in northern Tibet has favorable conditions and promising resources for oil and gas, according to the Beijing office of the Press Trust of India.
Meanwhile, the official Chinese Government news service Xinhau reported that the China Iron and Steel Association has vowed to cut the number of domestic companies importing iron ore to 90 this year. All outdated steel mills will be closed by the end of the year. The world’s top iron ore consumer, China imported 326 million tons of iron ore in 2006.
At a recent steel and iron ore industry meeting in Kuming City, it was disclosed that 20% of the nation’s iron-ore importers are expected to be out of business at the end of this year.
Meng said it China’s economic security would ultimately be endangered if the nation continued to rely on imports of major mineral resources in the long term. He added that the results of the geological survey along the railroad proved it was possible to improve China’s natural resources security.
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Oh, I'm sure Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth will put a stop to any effort to exploit those deposits. /sarcasm
So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier.
Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga.
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
With all the Aids activists panhandling for funds to cure a disease that is 100% preventable by behavior, I'd say the two go together.
Same problem we have when democrats show take over.
This is what happens when you surrender without a fight!
Your enemies DO NOT respect you, even grudgingly.
Your enemies DO NOT care what you think.
Your enemies DO NOT have any reason what so ever to care about your traditions, religion or culture.
Your enemies DO NOT have to worry about their behavior towards your nation.
Your enemies DO NOT concern themselves with what tie-die wearers in Berkeley say on their bumper stickers.
Your enemies DO NOT need to stop importing homeless people, AIDS carriers, prostitutes, or anyone else they want to.
This is the meaning of the timeless phrase "you lose" which is always uttered with extra vigour after the ultimate loser military tactic of 'unconditional surrender without firing a shot'.
This is the fate Jane Fonda and her minions have in mind for the USA, if only we could all listen to the eternal WISDOM of the Dali Lama.
This is an excellent object lesson for pacifists!
(Again, I think there is a near 100% correlation between: pacificists, American Buddhists, followers of the Dali Lama, and people with "Free Tibet" stickers on their Volvos and Suburus.)
May they choke to death on whores in Tibet and in so doing clarify this confusing matter for liberals everywhere.
No, absolutely incorrect.
I am not a Buddhist, but I've studied it in college. Buddhism has a very strong sense of right-and-wrong. The "Noble Eightfold Path" is the set or moral prescriptions that all Buddhists are to uphold. They certianly have moral absolutes, and they are more absolute than ours. We have "Thou Shalt Not Kill". They have an equivilent precept, but it has not had exceptions carved out for: state executions of criminals, self-defense, just war, etc.
Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
No wonder American liberals love mass transit. ;)
And Mumbai has been demoted to a "town"? Of 12 million???
I would think, if nothing else as someone who is interested in Christian prostelitizing, it would behove you to understand the other four. I'm not saying immerse yourself in them for years, but maybe read one book (by a practitioner of that faith, not a "Why Jesus is better than Buddha" book by some TV preacher) so that at least you could recruit more effectively.
"What the Buddha Taught" is a good primer on that religion. If you can't afford that time, consider at least reading the Wikipedia articles on them!
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