Finally, the PRC's long-run geopolitical goals include incorporating Taiwan into the PRC and becoming the primary power in Asia, goals which conflict with current U.S. interests in Asia and the Pacific.
Unfortunately, the PRC's entry into the WTO could greatly facilitate this sort of bait-and-switch scheme.
If so, Americans may have even more direct reason to fear the effects of the PRC's nuclear trade than deadly Indo- Pakistani missile duels.
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Presumably, Huawei's American guns-for-hire or perhaps Obama's own advisors impressed upon them that President Obama could hardly afford to ignore CFIUS' conclusions in order to do the PRC's bidding.
It is also rumored that that the suspensions on World Bank loans will be lifted in a few months -- with or without a change in the PRC's policy of repression.
In response to popular calls for direct elections in 2007 for the Chief Executive and 2008 for all of the Legislative Council, as allowed under the Basic Law, the PRC's National People's Congress Standing Committee has made some telling and worrisome moves in recent weeks.
The hostility they demonstrate for democracy and the indifference they suggest for British, U.S. or other international support for its survival on territory claimed by China is an ominous warning of still worse to come at the PRC's hands in the region, and possibly elsewhere.
To be sure, even if China had not decided years ago to play the Pakistani "card" against the PRC's democratic enemy, India, by arming the Paks to the teeth, the present circumstances in Kashmir may still have produced yet another war between the two countries.
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In addition to the financial considerations arguing for U.S. investors to steer clear of the Sinopec offering, the Washington Post on Sunday ( see attached) joined outraged human rights, national security and other non-governmental organizations in denouncing the PRC's efforts to conceal some of this deal's strategic implications.
Given the ties the company its government have been forging with oil-rich states like Sudan, Iraq and Iran, American investors would, as a practical matter, be facilitating infusions of hard currency not only into the PRC's coffers, but into those of some of the world's most dangerous nations as well.
Gaffney pointed out that the PRC's play for Unocal's energy and rare earth mineral assets is hardly a normal commercial transaction, but rather part of Beijing's long-term plan to dominate strategic energy resources, materials, minerals and technologies in order to provide a civilian economy that will serve China's military needs.
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He may have shed important light on the PRC's role in supporting Colombia's Marxist narco-traffickers known as the FARC, its connections to the ever-more-despotic Hugo Chavez, who has announced his desire to replicate the Maoist revolution in Venezuela, or its plans for expanding China's military and intelligence "footprint" beyond the electronic listening facility it is using to "bug" the United States from Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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No bank or brokerage house, no business-news organization and no government agency comprehensively follows People's Republic of China, or PRC, penetration of U.S. capital markets.
If iPhone exports from the PRC to the U.S. were calculated based on the value-added contributed by PRC workers, i.e.
Finally, with Cambodia removed as an obstacle for Soviet rapprochement with China, Moscow may hope to reduce somewhat the mutuality of U.S.-PRC interests upon which the United States has drawn in playing the "China card" in superpower relations.
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If, after one year, the proliferation activities that prompted the first tier sanctions have not been rectified, the President would have the option of denying access for all state-owned enterprises of the PRC to the U.S. capital markets.
Increasingly, the PRC is using U.S. capital markets both as a source of central-government funding for military and commercial development and as a means of cloaking U.S. technology-acquisition efforts by its front companies with a patina of regularity and respectability.
Proponents will likely argue that, by agreeing to open its economy to foreign imports and partial ownership according to the WTO's rules, the PRC will begin to be transformed into a genuinely free market and ultimately a democratic society.
It has announced that it will establish an inter-ministerial committee similar to CFIUS. Presumably, it will become an instrument for selectively restricting foreign investment in the PRC - retaliating against U.S. business interests in the event of future CFIUS rejections on security grounds and creating still-greater leverage on U.S. companies to support its predatory trade and "commercial" activities.
The surveillance aircraft incident with china underscores the need for an explicit and firm U.S. policy toward the PRC.
Entertainment today announced the studio will begin offering its films nationally On Demand to consumers' television sets in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
As you are aware, PetroChina is a subsidiary largely owned by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which is itself a state-owned entity controlled by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
's (OTCBB: CBBD) PRC joint venture, YOU On Demand Media, consumers will be able to access Warner Bros.
For example, massive oil concessions granted to the PRC in Sudan have been exchanged for Beijing's political and physical support of the genocidal, terrorist-sponsoring regime in Khartoum.
If the PRC succeeds in militarily conquering Taiwan then the U.S. would quickly lose its power position in Asia.
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If the U.S. pulled back, however, the PRC no longer could treat North Korean irresponsibility as a matter of indifference.
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