Posted on 05/12/2007 11:55:10 AM PDT by freedomm2
China to buy $4.3B in U.S. technology
A delegation of Chinese business leaders on Wednesday committed to buying $4.3 billion in U.S. technology, hoping to soften a political backlash to the massive trade imbalance dividing two of the world's economic powers. The agreements were trumpeted at a ceremony staged two weeks before the scheduled start of government talks in Washington, where leaders will try to tackle the United States' $232 billion trade deficit with China and other prickly issues. California Lt
. Gov. John Garamendi hailed 27 contracts signed Wednesday as an "important step in furthering the deep relationship between this state, this country and China."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
How does one go about buying technology?
Get on Google Earth and take a look at Shanghai. Sobering.
This way:
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Why China has Canada sweating
1st May, 2007 l 1001 hrs IST | AFP / The Times of India
OTTAWA: Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has told a senate committee.
China ranked at the top of its list of more than a dozen countries believed to be spying on Canada, hoping to glean government, technological and corporate secrets, CSIS director Jim Judd said on Monday.
“China is at the top of our list of counter-intelligence targets and accounts for close to 50 per cent of our counter-intelligence program,” he said, according to CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion.
The senate committee is studying whether Canada needs more robust foreign intelligence gathering capabilities or even a separate spy agency like the US’s CIA or Britain’s MI6.
Judd’s comments come as Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay visited Beijing to try to improve relations, strained since the rise to power of Canada’s Conservatives in January 2006, over the jailing of a Canadian imam in China, stalled trade negotiations, and Canada’s failure to extradite Chinese fugitives.
Beijing also showed its displeasure at the Canadian parliament’s decision to give honorary citizenship to Tibetan religious leader in exile, the Dalai Lama, in November.
Are they buying the plant or the product to clone?
Well, we sold tons and tons of scrap metal to Japan in the 30’s and it came back to us in the form of Japanese zeros and bullets.
This time it will come back to us in the form of much more deadly weapons.
That’s material. They could buy scrap and they could buy manufactured items and grain and lumber, but how does one buy technology?
they are buying up America
It was so much simpler in the old days when there was just one contract needed to get the technology, with the DNC.
Shh, repeat after me, “Trade with China Good, Trade with China good” repeat this everyday for ten years and then you will have the “proper” mentality......
Anyone else remember Charlie Tre and Loral?
Why don’t we just give them the f****** keys to the White Hose and be done with it? /sarcasm off
Food imports threaten humans as well as pets
Article Last Updated: 05/12/2007 07:45:46 AM PDT
IF YOU THOUGHT the poisoned pet food situation was scary, try this one on for size. Since there are too few Food and Drug Administration inspectors, billions of dollars worth of foreign ingredients get a free pass — with virtually no inspection whatsoever.
According to an Associated Press analysis of federal trade and food data, a rising tide of imports are coming from countries with spotty records and everything from salad dressing to ice cream enter this country without a look from overwhelmed inspectors.
In fact, FDA inspectors at ports and border checkpoints often find shipments that are filthy or contaminated, but they rarely bother to inspect because ingredients arent a priority. Oils, spices, flours and gums, for example, havent been blamed for killing humans, so for now they generally get by. So who is doing the safety checks? It appears no one.
Some of these products are obscure, but play a vital role in our daily diets. For instance, some of these products keep soft drinks fizzy, crackers crispy and prevent sauces from gooing up. Gum arabic is extracted from acacia trees and helps gives light whipped cream its texture. It could be the smallest ingredient that gets contaminated and triggers a disaster.
The volume is becoming immense, increasing the chances for trouble. In 2001, the United States imported $4.4 billion worth of ingredients processed from plants or animals. Last year, the total leaped to $7.6 billion. There are many reasons for the
increase in imports. U.S. food makers looking for bargains have doubled their business with low-cost countries such as Mexico, China and India. Changing consumer tastes plays a factor, too.
Heres another form of national security danger. The pet food poisoning also should be a wake-up call that our human food supply can go down the same road. In the case of pet food, it was only one product — an industrial chemical that makes plastics — that led to the deaths of 16 cats and dogs and sickened thousands more. It illustrates the vulnerability of food products coming into this country.
However, thanks to the work done by AP, unlike in the pet food situation, we have prior knowledge that inspections are lax. Now something can be done about it. Waiting for people to become ill or die before setting priorities is completely unacceptable and needs to be eliminated immediately.
Since imports into this country are rising, the number of inspectors must increase — the FDA obviously needs help. Inspection priorities must change; if products come to our shelves a little later than normal as a result, its worth the price we could pay if we consume contaminated products.
We have an obligation to inspect whatever comes into this country, especially products that we digest. Instead of letting the problem continue — and get worse — we need to get serious about adding more inspectors and being more thorough. Lets not wait for a catastrophe to act.
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I'm a lot more concerned about what China could do to us that a bunch of ME characters who have to blow themselves up or steal our planes to do us damage. We are 'inspecting' them.
they all ready have them .its all about MONEY
It's quite a bit worse than the simple trade imbalance i.e. subsidy for their stuff, tariffs on ours, Yuan devaluation. Of even more serious concern is that China is building up its military with that trade imbalance with equipment directly designed to take on our own units. We seem pretty oblivious to this threat.
Can’t use Google Earth because it does not play well with wireless networks, but on Google Maps none of the place names are marked within China. Why do you think that is?
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