中国のパキスタンでの基地関心

２６日付のパキスタン紙ニューズは外交筋の話として、中国政府が新疆ウイグル自治区の独立運動組織「東トルキスタン・イスラム運動」（ETIM）によるテロ活動を阻止するため、隣接するパキスタン北部に軍事基地を建設することに興味を示していると報じた。日経より。

"Biggest forests spared the chop" from South China Morning Post

"HEILONGJIANG - China will stop chopping down trees in the Daxinganling and Xiaoxinganling forests, the country's biggest forests, on the borders with Russia and North Korea, for the next 10 years, Xinhua reports. The two forests cover half million square kilometres with nearly 10 million people, many of whom work in the forest industry."

"Beijing hails pact with Tajikistan" from South China Morning Post

"China hailed a new border treaty with Tajikistan yesterday, praising the resolution of a dispute dating to the 19th century. Tajik parliament voted on Wednesday to turn over 1,000 sq km of territory in the sparsely populated Pamir Mountains region."

"Rail plan may boost China's regional sway" from South China Morning Post

"China has put its ties with other Asian nations on a fast track as it competes with the United States for influence in the region."


"But unlike the US, China is offering its neighbours tangible benefits of alliance, such as high-speed railway and infrastructure investments.

China and Thailand are in advanced talks over a high-speed railway that will pass from southern China through Laos to Thailand, but the plan awaits full confirmation.

In October, the Thai parliament approved a framework for further negotiations with China on a high-speed railway in Thailand, the Bangkok Post reported. The plan would see China build rail lines in Thailand up to the Thai-Malaysian border, with trains running at 250 kilometres per hour. The project is estimated to cost US$23 billion to US$27 billion.

The first section to built would be a link between Bangkok and Nong Khai in northeast Thailand on the Thai-Lao border, Thai Transport Minister Sophon Sarum told media this month. Sophon said this 615kilometre section would cost 208 billion baht (HK$52.93 billion)."


"The high-speed railway that will operate between China, Laos and Thailand in the next few years is part of China's long-term plan to have a high-speed railway from China all the way through Malaysia to Singapore."


"The proposed high-speed rail link between China and Thailand will integrate other Asean members with China physically and spread prosperity from the wealthier to the less developed Asean nations, said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a Thai researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore."


"Vietnam will adopt Japanese high-speed rail technology for its project, which would cost US$55 billion and take 10 to 15 years to build. A Chinese system would require a fraction of the cost and time, the South China Morning Post earlier reported.

"Vietnam is particularly conscious of its problems with China because of history and geography," Wong said. Over the past 2,000 years, China and Vietnam have often been at war, the latest being the Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979. Vietnam and China still have lingering territorial disputes over the South China Sea, which the Vietnamese call the East Vietnam Sea, Wong said. "In Vietnam, some quarters are still anti-China, but other elements are quite neutral. They want China's investment, tourism and trade." "


"Wu's visit to Cambodia came just days after Clinton's visit, when she urged the nation not to become "too dependent" on China.

Wu also visited Indonesia just days before Obama arrived there. On November 8, one day before Obama arrived, China signed US$6.6 billion worth of deals with Indonesia in Jakarta, including infrastructure, energy and agricultural projects."

"Spot the companies most likely to cook their books" from South China Morning Post

"Some industries were more prone to fiddling their numbers than others. As the first chart below shows, each year on average 8.5 per cent of companies in the agricultural sector restate their earnings. In contrast, construction companies appear to have clean hands.

There are also clear differences between different provinces. As the second chart shows, companies in poorer, less developed provinces are far more likely to restate their earnings than companies based in provinces with a relatively advanced legal and accounting infrastructure like Guangdong."

"Northern wilderness transformed into grain basket on Mao's orders" from South China Morning Post

"The fertile black-earth plains of the northeast, China's most important grain-producing belt, turn golden yellow in autumn, a broad sweep of rice paddies and farmland stretching on towards the horizon.

But half a century ago, the vast expanse of Heilongjiang land, bordering Siberia, was covered by marshes and known as Beidahuang, the Great Northern Wilderness."

"After serving coffee around the world for 39 years, Starbucks plans to start growing its own." from South China Morning Post

"And the location for its global farm will be in Puer city in Yunnan province, which is better known for its tea."

"It would also establish a coffee development centre, a coffee farmer support centre and coffee processing facilities. The initiatives would complete Starbucks entire value-chain-from seed to cup - in China."

"Yunnan is one of the best places in China for coffee, especially the high-quality Arabica beans, thanks to its warm, mild and wet weather. China produces around 40,000 to 50,000 tonnes of coffee beans a year, with more than 90 per cent of it coming from Yunnan.

Under the agreement, Starbucks will operate the base farm and the farmer support centre, its first in Asia and third globally following Costa Rica and Rwanda."

"Starbucks is the latest in a series of major foreign corporates to invest in the province: Nestle arrived in Yunnan more than a decade ago, offering training to farmers and purchasing around 3,000 to 5,000 tonnes of coffee beans annually, and brands like Maxwell and Kraft Food also buy Yunnan coffee."

" "The dangers of proliferation of nuclear weapons and chemical and biological weapons are more far-reaching. It can alter the whole balance of power in a region," he said." from South China Morning Post

" "Australia's resource endowment, our geographical proximity to these growth economies and our ability to continue being a cost-competitive and stable supplier of raw materials means that Australia will continue to be a reliable source of resources into the future," Luck says." from South China Morning Post