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There's some useful information here, but it pictures US policy as
just a competition for oil with China. It's been clear literally
for generations however that control, not access, is the American
goal, as an advantage against American economic rivals - not just
China but Japan and Europe.<br>
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A high level of fantasy has been reached when Klare can write,
"Beijing has been dispatching its top leaders to woo Riyadh,
promising to support Saudi aspirations <i>without employing the
human rights or pro-democracy rhetoric usually associated with
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[emphasis added].<br>
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On 9/21/10 12:00 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net">mkbrussel@comcast.net</a> wrote:<br>
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> mkb29 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net"><mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net></a> forwarded this
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> *A useful discussion except that Klare makes almost no
mention of<br>
> nuclear energy. Over a period of a few-to-several decades,
nuclear<br>
> energy from advanced power reactors (Integrated Fast
Reactors) for<br>
> the production of electricity could supplant a good portion
of the<br>
> world's energy needs minimizing environmental harm and
obviating<br>
> nuclear weapon proliferation. That is a direction the Chinese
(and<br>
> others—India and Russia, for example) are considering, and
should be<br>
> considered by the USA. It will require considerable and
sustained<br>
> development, but most knowledgeable people believe it can be<br>
> achieved. There is plenty of U238 (now considered as waste)
and Th232<br>
> available to last well over a hundred years.*<br>
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> *China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Century Energy<br>
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