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This is highly disappointing and the EU continues to encourage the Chinese authorities to revisit their export restrictions policy to ensure there is full, fair, predictable and nondiscriminatory access to rare earth supplies as well as other raw materials for EU industries," EU trade spokesman John Clancy said in an e-mailed statement.[/
BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - China accused the United States on Sunday of "grossly" interfering in its internal affairs and seriously damaging relations after President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House
"This action is a gross interference in China’s internal affairs, hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and damages Sino-U.S. relations," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement released in the early hours of Sunday.
Mullen's visit to China was the first of its kind in four years. It was intended to build on efforts to increase communications and exchanges between the two in hopes of easing growing tensions over China's growing military might and economic clout.
Chen, who visited the U.S. in May, stressed that China remains well behind the United States in military capability and said its military growth is purely for defense.Mullen on Friday said he was not convinced.
"It's too early to say where China is going with all of this," he said. "They say it's defensive. We'll see."
US-Vietnam naval drill begins against China's wish
DANANG, Vietnam — Former enemies Vietnam and the United States began a joint naval drill on Friday, despite Chinese objections after weeks of escalating tension in the disputed South China Sea.
This month, India’s Cabinet Committee on Security approved the purchase of 10 C-17 Globemaster III heavy-lift transport aircraft from the United States for use by the Indian Air Force, in a deal worth $4.1 billion
The Air Force, currently the largest beneficiary of India’s rising military budget, is in the middle of shifting its focus from being a purely Pakistan-centric force, to one that will be capable of simultaneously meeting the twin threats posed by an insecure Pakistan and an increasingly belligerent China.
Chinese fiscal assistance is allowing Pakistan to begin rebuilding its energy infrastructure in its portion of the contested Himalayan state, which it labels “Azad Kashmir,” heavily damaged during last year’s flooding.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, a major outcome of a visit by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to Beijing this week, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
“Statistics are hard to come by, but China is probably the biggest single investor in Africa,” said Martyn Davies, the director of the China Africa Network at the University of Pretoria. “They are the biggest builders of infrastructure. They are the biggest lenders to Africa, and China-Africa trade has just pushed past $100 billion annually.”
China's strongest condemnation yet of assaults on the forces of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, and showed how the conflict could become a fresh point of contention between Beijing and Washington.
Originally posted by watcher3339
reply to post by new_here
You have indeed added some excellent spice to my stew! Thank you for your contribution.
Also, and there have been threads about this, the whole cyberwar thing with us determining that we could take such as an act of war and respond accordingly. I know that not all of the high level hacking orginates from China, but contemporary wisdom and word on the street is that it does. The timing of our change to our stance regarding cyber attacks and our admission that a foreign intelligence hacked us regarding highly sensitive information: and the timing of that admission and change. Well, the to continue your metaphor, the pot does seem to be coming to a boil.
Yeah I thought of that, then I thought... they're running out of land & water for their own people. Would they want to maybe set up shop here and move their extra's over. Does it matter to them WHO is buying their wares as long as it is underlings of some sort? They could just do away with the current populace here and install their own kind. I dunno. That's surely a simplistic way of looking at it. But it does make me wonder, DO they really need us???
Originally posted by starwarsisreal
But isn't China too dependent of the US? I mean without the US buying all their products where would they get their funding?
Originally posted by Ben81
take US soil/civilians has hostage .. so the president wont launch any nuke on china citiesedit on 7/17/2011 by Ben81 because: (no reason given)
3] Instead of depicting a Soviet invasion of the United States as in the 1984 film, the 2011 version's storyline was originally filmed with a Chinese invasion. This was later edited to depict a North Korean invasion in post-production due to concerns from distributors.[4]
Originally posted by LeTan
That reminds me, I saw this a couple of months ago. The new movie Red Dawn, they are remaking it. Instead of Russians invading, it was the Chinese, then, changed to North Korea being the aggressor.
3] Instead of depicting a Soviet invasion of the United States as in the 1984 film, the 2011 version's storyline was originally filmed with a Chinese invasion. This was later edited to depict a North Korean invasion in post-production due to concerns from distributors.[4]
Red Dawn
Odd, that they would change it from China to North Korea due to concerns from distributors? What concerns?edit on 17-7-2011 by LeTan because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by FrankieNinja
reply to post by Ben81
And when the Chinese do try to visit our wonderful and unique in history, AMERICA, we would like to introduce them to our welcoming committee... The 2nd Amendment of The United States Constitution. (Sans Barry of course) and we will give them an updated version of the old Clint Eastwood movie..
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Originally posted by starwarsisreal
But isn't China too dependent of the US? I mean without the US buying all their products where would they get their funding?
Originally posted by Ben81
There is a quote that say
When China will wake up
the entire earth will tremble
because of their massive army
They know that to win a war against the USA
an invasion would be the only solution
take US soil/civilians has hostage .. so the president wont launch any nuke on china citiesedit on 7/17/2011 by Ben81 because: (no reason given)