China, Russia sign bln-dlr nuclear deal: official

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Khaleej Times Online - China, Russia sign bln-dlr nuclear deal: official=

BEIJING - China and Russia on Friday signed a one-billion-dollar deal to expand a nuclear energy facility in the Asian nation, a Russian official said.
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']"We have completed negotiations on construction of a uranium enrichment factory," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, told reporters in Beijing.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']He was speaking during a visit to Beijing by new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is on his first foreign trip since taking office this month.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']The deal will include construction of a fourth block of a nuclear facility that enriches uranium in China as well as the delivery of partially enriched Russian uranium, Kiriyenko said.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']"The contract is worth more than one billion dollars, about 500 million dollars for construction and another 500 million for delivery of uranium," Kiriyenko said.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']China has been seeking to expand its use of nuclear power, which accounts for less than two percent of its total energy production.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']The fast-growing economic power is highly dependent on coal, which is blamed for worsening pollution and proved risky when supplies were cut off by severe snowstorms during the winter.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Russia has been competing with Western nations and Japan for a slice of China's nuclear power market.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']French nuclear giant Areva last year sealed a deal to deliver two advanced reactors for eight billion euros (12.6 billion dollars).[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Russia's first 1,000 megawatt nuclear reactor in China, at Tianwan in the east, went into commercial operation in June last year after numerous delays while a second went into operation in September.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Russia supplies fuel for both reactors in accordance with earlier agreements.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Kiriyenko said that Russia and China were also in talks on the construction of two more 1,000 megawatt reactors at the Tianwan facility. The original contract, signed in 1997, was worth 3.3 billion dollars.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']China and Russia, despite political ties, have been competing for Central Asia's oil and gas, which was exclusively Moscow's preserve in Soviet times.[/FONT]
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']China currently has 11 nuclear reactors in operation and will need up to 30 more atomic power plants if it expects to realise its target of producing 40 gigawatts of nuclear energy by 2020.[/FONT]

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While our leaders are forcused on Iran and Iraq (and telling us we need to be scared of them), China is becoming the 800 lb gorilla in the corner.
 
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While our leaders are forcused on Iran and Iraq (and telling us we need to be scared of them), China is becoming the 800 lb gorilla in the corner.

maybe if some of our "leaders" hadn't made it their mission in life to actively undermine the administration's efforts in Iraq in the first place...
 
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While our leaders are forcused on Iran and Iraq (and telling us we need to be scared of them), China is becoming the 800 lb gorilla in the corner.
it would be foolish to assume that we believe anyone but the Russians and Chinese are the greatest threat to our hegemony. I'll assure you that we spend ample time worrying about each.
 
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maybe if some of our "leaders" hadn't made it their mission in life to actively undermine the administration's efforts in Iraq in the first place...

I need you to elaborate on this a little more please.
 
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I need you to elaborate on this a little more please.

Jack Murtha convicting the Haditha marines before there'd ever been a trial.

Charlie Rangel and others calling the soldiers "terrorists" and accusing them of killing innocent women and children.

Jim McDermott and a couple of his congressional buddies traveling to Baghdad before hostilities.

Nancy Pelosi traveling to Syria.

Bundling war funding bills with legislation and pork that have nothing to do with the war effort. (A problem for both sides, to be sure)

and many other prominent democrats, on record, as being hyper critical of the war and the President. If you're naive enough to think that none of these incidents served to encourage Al Quaeda and other militant Islamists around the world then I have some ocean front property in Milan, TN I'll sell you.
 
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Jack Murtha convicting the Haditha marines before there'd ever been a trial.

Charlie Rangel and others calling the soldiers "terrorists" and accusing them of killing innocent women and children.

Jim McDermott and a couple of his congressional buddies traveling to Baghdad before hostilities.

Nancy Pelosi traveling to Syria.

Bundling war funding bills with legislation and pork that have nothing to do with the war effort. (A problem for both sides, to be sure)

and many other prominent democrats, on record, as being hyper critical of the war and the President. If you're naive enough to think that none of these incidents served to encourage Al Quaeda and other militant Islamists around the world then I have some ocean front property in Milan, TN I'll sell you.

So your saying Rangel, Murtha, McDermott, and Pelosi are the reason the Iraq War (aka Bush's War) is a failure? They undermined a successful plan?

I don't think so. Neither do I believe Al Qaeda viewed any of those actions as "encouraging". The most encouraging thing to happen for Al Qaeda was the US election in 2004.

We need to back off the middle east. Use our forces to firm up our national security, and focus on the real global threats to US security and prosperity - like China.
 
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I wouldn't necessarily call the Iraq war a failure. My best friend got married this wkend, which i was the best man. He is a captain in the U.S. Army and graduated from W.P. Half the groomsmen are in the Army as well. Each of them have served in Iraq. I promise you there have been many good things that have happened since we went to Iraq, yet we do not hear about them. each one of them said we should be there, and that leaving could be the biggest mistake we would ever make.

Right after 9/11 happened my best friend said that one of the top mentors/teachers at W.P. said that it would take up to 20 yrs to get rid of the terrorists. Due to them being spread out. He told me this within a year of 9/11 happening.

The libs are making it sound like nothing good is coming from this war, and that the best solution is to just leave. I think it would be a huge mistake, and funny to think every person I've ever talked to who has served in Iraq agree.
 
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I wouldn't necessarily call the Iraq war a failure. My best friend got married this wkend, which i was the best man. He is a captain in the U.S. Army and graduated from W.P. Half the groomsmen are in the Army as well. Each of them have served in Iraq. I promise you there have been many good things that have happened since we went to Iraq, yet we do not hear about them. each one of them said we should be there, and that leaving could be the biggest mistake we would ever make.

Right after 9/11 happened my best friend said that one of the top mentors/teachers at W.P. said that it would take up to 20 yrs to get rid of the terrorists. Due to them being spread out. He told me this within a year of 9/11 happening.

The libs are making it sound like nothing good is coming from this war, and that the best solution is to just leave. I think it would be a huge mistake, and funny to think every person I've ever talked to who has served in Iraq agree.

What do Iraq and 9/11 have in common?
 
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We have continued to be in the middle of an Iraq civil war rather than take off Bin Laden's melon.

I don't think that focusing our efforts on China is going to have a different result.

What exactly do you want us to do regarding China, anyway?
 
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Iraq and 9/11, hmmmm....how about terrorists. If you don't believe me ask the ones who have actually been there.
 
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We have continued to be in the middle of an Iraq civil war rather than take off Bin Laden's melon.

Still don't see the encouragement from the 2004 election for Al Qaeda. To assume you are correct, a different outcome in the 2004 election would have discouraged Al Qaeda? I guess they would have really been scared then?
 
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I don't think that focusing our efforts on China is going to have a different result.

That was in reference to four years ago. Our chances of finding a 6 foot middle eastern man pulling around a dialysis machine has lost all hope now.

What exactly do you want us to do regarding China, anyway?

At least keep tabs on their military for starters.
 
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Still don't see the encouragement from the 2004 election for Al Qaeda. To assume you are correct, a different outcome in the 2004 election would have discouraged Al Qaeda? I guess they would have really been scared then?

Anything other than "stay the course" would scare them more than the status quo.
 
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That was in reference to four years ago. Our chances of finding a 6 foot middle eastern man pulling around a dialysis machine has lost all hope now.



At least keep tabs on their military for starters.

Best way to do that is by satellite. In what way has our current deployment overseas made it more difficult to do this?
 
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Iraq and 9/11, hmmmm....how about terrorists. If you don't believe me ask the ones who have actually been there.

There are terriorists all over the world, not just Iraq. So why not go to war with everyone, including ourselves, if that's the justification.
 
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There are terriorists all over the world, not just Iraq. So why not go to war with everyone, including ourselves, if that's the justification.

Yes we all know the good old US is involved in terrorism all over the world. :eek:hmy:
 
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