Saturday, 8 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
New Links between Thailand and China
China to build $1.5 bn trading centre in Thailand
BEIJING, January 6, 2011 (AFP) - China will build a "commercial city" in Thailand worth $1.5 billion that will allow traders to re-export Chinese-made goods and avoid costly tariffs, state media said Thursday.
More than 70,000 Chinese traders are expected to operate in the China City Complex in Bangkok, helping them miss levies on products shipped directly from China, the China Daily said, citing officials involved in the development.
The 700,000-square-metre (7.5 million square foot) centre -- equivalent to 100 football pitches -- will resemble the world's largest wholesale market for small products in the city of Yiwu in eastern China, the report said.
Construction of the centre will begin on January 18 and is expected to be finished by 2013, it added.
"Apart from the business opportunities in Thailand, Chinese exporters can also promote their products to developed markets such as the European Union and the United States through this project," Yang Fangshu, chairman of the ASEAN-China Economic and Trade Promotion Centre, was quoted as saying.
China signed a free trade agreement with Southeast Asian countries including Thailand in January 2010 which reduced or removed tariffs on traded goods.
Export-driven China has seen its trade surplus with the rest of the world balloon in recent years, reaching $196.1 billion in 2009 and triggering rows with trading partners who complain their shelves are been flooded with cheap Chinese-made products.
China was targeted in a record 127 cases brought by trading nations in 2009, the report said, without providing details.
The country's trade surplus likely topped $190 billion in 2010, a commerce ministry official said recently. China is due to release full-year trade data next week.
There have been a series of trade spats between China and its key trading partners, the United States and Europe, from chicken products and modems to steel fasteners and China's yuan exchange rate policy.
Washington has led a chorus of complaints that China's exchange rate controls have made the country's exports artificially cheap and given its manufacturers an unfair advantage.
BEIJING, January 6, 2011 (AFP) - China will build a "commercial city" in Thailand worth $1.5 billion that will allow traders to re-export Chinese-made goods and avoid costly tariffs, state media said Thursday.
More than 70,000 Chinese traders are expected to operate in the China City Complex in Bangkok, helping them miss levies on products shipped directly from China, the China Daily said, citing officials involved in the development.
The 700,000-square-metre (7.5 million square foot) centre -- equivalent to 100 football pitches -- will resemble the world's largest wholesale market for small products in the city of Yiwu in eastern China, the report said.
Construction of the centre will begin on January 18 and is expected to be finished by 2013, it added.
"Apart from the business opportunities in Thailand, Chinese exporters can also promote their products to developed markets such as the European Union and the United States through this project," Yang Fangshu, chairman of the ASEAN-China Economic and Trade Promotion Centre, was quoted as saying.
China signed a free trade agreement with Southeast Asian countries including Thailand in January 2010 which reduced or removed tariffs on traded goods.
Export-driven China has seen its trade surplus with the rest of the world balloon in recent years, reaching $196.1 billion in 2009 and triggering rows with trading partners who complain their shelves are been flooded with cheap Chinese-made products.
China was targeted in a record 127 cases brought by trading nations in 2009, the report said, without providing details.
The country's trade surplus likely topped $190 billion in 2010, a commerce ministry official said recently. China is due to release full-year trade data next week.
There have been a series of trade spats between China and its key trading partners, the United States and Europe, from chicken products and modems to steel fasteners and China's yuan exchange rate policy.
Washington has led a chorus of complaints that China's exchange rate controls have made the country's exports artificially cheap and given its manufacturers an unfair advantage.
Korea: Clowns, Brothers.
Haha. South Korea has rejected the North Korean offer to talk unconditionally until certain conditions are met... although one would think that talking is the only thing that can decide conditionality, per se.
Clowns.
Brothers.
1:Have a fight with each other.
2:Survive it.
3:Settle eventually for peace without gain, without bringing in 'your friends'. That's all that can happen.
4: It's your fight.
5: It's a family matter.
When Korea was divided it was done so to bring the best benefit to the USA and the USSR, using the UN, as dark hegemonic 'deities'.
Korea was the only real victim of this massive atrocity of barbarian control.
60 years on, its time for one Korea again.
Clowns.
Brothers.
1:Have a fight with each other.
2:Survive it.
3:Settle eventually for peace without gain, without bringing in 'your friends'. That's all that can happen.
4: It's your fight.
5: It's a family matter.
When Korea was divided it was done so to bring the best benefit to the USA and the USSR, using the UN, as dark hegemonic 'deities'.
Korea was the only real victim of this massive atrocity of barbarian control.
60 years on, its time for one Korea again.
Available Wisdom from Confucius and Shakespeare re Korea and other things
Both the Koreas have a long history of shamanism, confucianism, quite a load of Catholicism in the missionary times, and both are avid researchers of Western Thought as well. They have everything they need to find a solution with each other and neither are mad, despite what the Americans say for their own quite sick hegemonic purposes.
"...In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of". Analects of Confucius.
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? " Confucius
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
...The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
- William Shakespeare
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare
"...In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of". Analects of Confucius.
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? " Confucius
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
...The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
- William Shakespeare
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare
South Korea refuses talks with North Korea_ CNN, & comment
South Korea has dismissed an apparent offer from North Korea of unconditional talks to ease tensions.
An official at the Unification Ministry in Seoul said it was not a serious proposal for dialogue, adding the offer was part of a propaganda campaign.
The US has also responded coolly, saying the North must first indicate it is serious about ending its provocations.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth is in China on a round of regional talks.
The visit by Mr Bosworth - America's top official on North Korea - is part of a fresh round of diplomacy on the issue.
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North and South areas of the One Korea continue to be belligerent brothers each expecting Great Forces to come to their rescue whilst still provoking and sometimes killing each other. They should be left alone to work things out in the way they know how. It wouldn't take them long and it is THEIR business.
I'm pretty sure if they were left to their own fate they'd work things out one way or another pretty quickly...and knowing it was just up to them, well, this may even bring about the necessity for peace. If neither side can win, then war is far too expensive.
An official at the Unification Ministry in Seoul said it was not a serious proposal for dialogue, adding the offer was part of a propaganda campaign.
The US has also responded coolly, saying the North must first indicate it is serious about ending its provocations.
US envoy Stephen Bosworth is in China on a round of regional talks.
The visit by Mr Bosworth - America's top official on North Korea - is part of a fresh round of diplomacy on the issue.
_____________________
North and South areas of the One Korea continue to be belligerent brothers each expecting Great Forces to come to their rescue whilst still provoking and sometimes killing each other. They should be left alone to work things out in the way they know how. It wouldn't take them long and it is THEIR business.
I'm pretty sure if they were left to their own fate they'd work things out one way or another pretty quickly...and knowing it was just up to them, well, this may even bring about the necessity for peace. If neither side can win, then war is far too expensive.
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
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