[Peace-discuss] mkb29 has forwarded an article to you from CommonDreams.org: China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Century Energy Superpower

[C. G. Estabrook]

  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.

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 /without employing the human rights or pro-democracy rhetoric 
usually associated with American foreign policy/" [emphasis added].

On 9/21/10 12:00 AM, mkbrussel at comcast.net wrote:
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>  *A useful discussion except that Klare makes almost no mention of
>  nuclear energy. Over a period of a few-to-several decades, nuclear
>  energy from advanced power reactors (Integrated Fast Reactors) for
>  the production of electricity could supplant a good portion of the
>  world's energy needs minimizing environmental harm and obviating
>  nuclear weapon proliferation. That is a direction the Chinese (and
>  others—India and Russia, for example) are considering, and should be
>  considered by the USA. It will require considerable and sustained
>  development, but most knowledgeable people believe it can be
>  achieved. There is plenty of U238 (now considered as waste) and Th232
>  available to last well over a hundred years.*
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>  *China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Century Energy
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>  Earth. Washington is already watching -- with anxiety.
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