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2006-11-27 China-Japan-Koreas

China moves ahead with project to rival Three Gorges in size

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Posted by 3dc 2006-11-27 18:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Keep on building those large vulnerable and catastrophic failure-prone targets, China. Then later you can sit back and wonder why you diverted such massive wealth into procuring arms whose single use will automatically bring about your destruction.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-27 19:50|| 2006-11-27 19:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Fo this price I don't see why they don;t just build a few nuclear powerplants.

They know how to build pebble-bed reactors, but I haven;t seen anything reported on them recently.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-27 20:11|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-27 20:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually while they know how to build the reactors they don't have the knowledge or infrastructure to build the 'pebbles'. If I remember correctly there are only 2 or 3 firms in the world that have the engineering know how to make them.

Posted by Valentine 2006-11-27 20:34|| 2006-11-27 20:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd also wager that these massive engineering projects are a combination of "rice bowl" for keeping the local labor population calm and some major pork barrel distribution for the PLA brass.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-27 21:34|| 2006-11-27 21:34|| Front Page Top

#5 In the 1990's roughly 80% of China's population was classified as [AGRARIAN/RURAL]POOR andor below the poverty line, a ratio which has only slightly decreased Year 2000-2006. As wid the majority or bulk of world Muslims, they have to be taught WHAT HYDRO- AND NUKE POWER PLANTS, etc. ARE. Anyhoo, when and iff America = Amerika, the USA = USSA = USR/SSR one day is de facto gone, it'll be interesting to see whose form of anti-US asymmetric warfare is superior > RUSSIA vv ENERGY, or CHINA vv WATER, for control of Mackinder's World Island???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-27 21:42|| 2006-11-27 21:42|| Front Page Top

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