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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (23418)	7/26/2005 7:33:09 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81814

Gus > If anything, sounds like China just beat the West at its own game.... Without any doubt. In fact, the CNOOC UNOCAL deal, where CNOOC offered 10% more than Chevron for UNOCAL and lost for "other" reasons, shows that. One can see fear written all over the US' face.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (23418)	7/27/2005 10:50:03 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81814

Gus > sounds like China just beat the West at its own game(2). And you can say that again. businessday.co.za >>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe clinched a promise of Chinese financial and diplomatic support on a visit to Beijing yesterday, as the US and the UK stepped up pressure on the southern African leader’s controversial clean-up blitz. Mugabe’s turning to the Asian powerhouse for aid comes amid a chorus of western condemnation of the clean-up, which a United Nations (UN) report says has left 700000 Zimbabweans homeless. Even as Mugabe clinched a deal with Chinese leader Hu Jintao on economic and technical co-operation during his visit to Beijing yesterday, the US and UK said last night they would press the UN Security Council to halt the demolition campaign. In Beijing, Hu praised Mugabe for making “major contributions to the friendly relations between our two countries”. “I stand ready to have an in-depth exchange of views,” he said. Mugabe’s “look-east” policy has resulted in greater Chinese involvement in Zimbabwe’s economy, fuelling speculation he may be mortgaging the country’s resources for aid. Zimbabwe has substantial gold, platinum, steel and nickel deposits. It is also Africa’s leading tobacco producer.<< I like the way the US and UK appeal to the Security Council to scold Mugabe. After the manifest contempt the US and UK have shown the UN over Iraq, if that isn't the highest form of hypocrisy, I don't know what it is? And Mbeki, the stooge for the West, has offered Mugabe a billion dollars of South African money -- and for what? It would have been better spent had he given it to one his ANC oligarchs. >>SA has already promised aid to Mugabe, but it is tied to numerous governance conditions.<<