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2008-12-29 Africa Horn

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-29 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 What China believes is necessary. China doesn't have universities full of anti-Chinese parasites. They may dislike their government but they are still Sino-centric chauvinistic.

Posted by P2k on holiday 2008-12-29 08:16|| 2008-12-29 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 We'll see shortly. As China has invested a great deal of money and effort towards plundering the oil and mineral riches of the African continent, I suspect they don't look generously on a bunch of rag tags taking control of any of their ships. I don't think there will be much showing up in the press. Just a continuing decline in the amount of attacks/attackers with no explanation as to how it's occurring.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-29 12:00|| 2008-12-29 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing.

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-29 12:25|| 2008-12-29 12:25|| Front Page Top

#4 As China has invested a great deal of money and effort towards plundering the oil and mineral riches of the African continent

I think this is more accurate phrasing:

As China has ~~invested~~ squandered a great deal of money and effort towards ~~plundering~~ paying peak prices for the oil and mineral riches of the African continent

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-12-29 16:15|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-12-29 16:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, given the run on 'paper' by the US Treasury, it's sort of use it or lose it by the Chinese government. Peak oil meet peak Treasury Bills.

Posted by P2k on holiday 2008-12-29 17:26|| 2008-12-29 17:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Also on STRATEGYPAGE: ATTRITION: COMMUNIST REBELS LOSE THEIR EDGE [India].

Methinks its more correct to say the Commies are letting their Theo-Socialist = Fascist "Limited Commie", etc. Islamist cohorts take the lead [fall] for IN-COUNTRY VIOLENCE IN ORDER TO HELP GAIN POLITICAL SEATS. The Commie-Islamist alloance is very much a [Hollyweird]TEMPORARY COLLUSION/MARRIAGE OF MILPOL CONVENIENCE ONLY AS PER WAR FOR OWG-NWO - THE POST-WOT "DIVORCE" T'AINT GONNA BE A PRETTY!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-29 18:58|| 2008-12-29 18:58|| Front Page Top

#7 OTOH, WORLD MIL FORUM [paraph = Google Chinglish translation] > IIUC THE CHINESE PLA WILL SEVERELY PUNISH THE ILLEGAL COVERT OPERATIONS OF SMUGGLER"S AND TRAITORS, which IMO may infer the CPC = Chin Military Commission SETTING UP A PCORRECT LEGAL AND DIPLOM BASIS/COVER FOR [anti-Terror?]INTERNATIONAL PLA-LED BLACK OPS???

This WMF artic got my nose twitching.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-29 19:05|| 2008-12-29 19:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Under the auspices of the Chin PLAN + PLAAF, two services which weirdly and msyteriously would be the leads in delivering covert Commando-INTEL ground units. CHINA's PLA MODERNIZATION > REMAINS VERY MUCH A WORK-IN-PROGRESS/PROCESS DESPITE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS, i.e. CHINA HAS NOT YET DEV AN EXTENSIVE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF PARTY-STATE CONTROLLED, NON-PLA [Foreign Ministry, etc] INFORMATION OR INTEL OPS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-29 19:13|| 2008-12-29 19:13|| Front Page Top

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