'เวิน' เยือนเปียงยาง เจรจา 'คิม'

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นายกฯ เวินเจียเป่าของจีน เดินทางถึงกรุงเปียงยางของเกาหลีเหนือเมื่อวันอาทิตย์ "คิม จองอิล" เดินทางมารับถึงสนามบินด้วยตนเอง คาดน่าจะนำประเด็นนิวเคลียร์ขึ้นโต๊ะเจรจาด้วย ท่ามกลางสัญญาณบ่งชี้ว่าเกาหลีเหนือพร้อมจะรื้อฟื้นเจรจานิวเคลียร์อีกครั้ง แม้รัฐบาลจีนออกตัวเป็นการเยือนกระชับไมตรีครบ 60 ปีสัมพันธภาพ

ภาพข่าวทางโทรทัศน์เผยให้เห็น คิม จองอิล ผู้นำสูงสุดของเปียงยาง เดินทางมาต้อนรับนายกฯ เวินด้วยตนเอง ถึงที่สนามบินซูนานในกรุงเปียงยาง เมื่อวันที่ 4 ต.ค. ซึ่งถือว่าเป็นการให้เกียรติด้วยการปรากฏกายแบบไม่ปรากฏบ่อยนัก ในพิธีต้อนรับบุคคลที่ไม่ใช่ผู้นำระดับสูงสุดของประเทศ ทั้งที่มีข่าวว่าเขาล้มป่วยเมื่อไม่นานก่อนหน้านี้ก็ตาม และน่าจะเป็นการส่งสัญญาณถึงความกระตือรือร้นของรัฐบาลเกาหลีเหนือ ที่ต้องการกระชับความสัมพันธ์ทางการทูตและเศรษฐกิจกับเพื่อนบ้านที่ใกล้ชิดที่สุดชาตินี้

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China Plans $10 Billion Asean Investment Funding

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นี่คือสิ่งที่เสื้อแดงทำกับประเทศชาติ และทำกับชาติอาเซียนทั้งหมด ให้เสียโอกาสที่ดี และทำให้การฟื้นตัวล่าช้าออกไป ทักษินไม่ได้ทำร้ายแค่ชาติไทย แต่ทำร้ายคนอีกใน 10 ประเทศ

เนื้อข่าว - จีนวางแผนจะประกาศแผนเสนอเงินลงทุน 10,000 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ (ประมาณ 350,000 ล้านบาท) และ เครดิตอีก 15,000 ล้านเหรียญสหรัฐ (525,000 ล้านบาท) ต่อชาติอาเซียน แต่การประชุมถูกยกเลิกเสียก่อน ทั้งนี้ข้อเสนอของจีน เป็นทางเลือกให้กับประเทศอาเซียน นอกเหนือจาก IMF และ Asian Developement Bank for funding.

Bloomberg: April 12 (Bloomberg) -- China plans to create a $10 billion investment cooperation fund and offer $15 billion in credit to its Southeast Asian neighbors, extending its influence as the region attempts to weather the global financial crisis.

The investment fund will promote infrastructure development linking China with the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, while the loans will be offered over three to five years, according to a statement on the Foreign Ministry Web site today citing an interview with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.

The measures from the world’s third-largest economy, and one of the few forecast to maintain growth this year, may help speed recovery from the global financial crisis and cement China’s leadership in the region. The nation has already signed currency swap agreements with Indonesia, South Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia this year to help ease foreign-exchange shortages and aid bilateral trade and investment.

“China is going to take the opportunity of this crisis to further establish itself in Asia,” said Huang Jing, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. “All this will have a huge political and diplomatic impact in the region, in addition to the economic impact.”

Other planned measures include 270 million yuan ($39.5 million) in aid to Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, and donation of 300,000 tons of rice to an emergency East Asia rice reserve to boost food security, the statement said.

‘Difficult Times’

Premier Wen Jiabao was to announce the proposals at the Asean summit that was canceled in Thailand this weekend.

“Asean leaders hope China could play an important role in pushing forward cooperation in East Asia, and with other countries overcome the difficult times,” Yang said, according to the statement. Wen’s proposals reflect a resolve to “realize the Chinese government’s sincerity, responsibility and confidence in pushing forward Asean cooperation,” he said.

Macquarie Securities Ltd. and China International Capital Corp. estimate that China’s economy will expand as much as 8 percent this year. The World Bank expects 6.5 percent growth.

China’s proposals give Asean countries “another option” besides going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the Asian Development Bank for funding, Huang said. That may aid China’s standing with Asean, where memories are still fresh of the painful conditions imposed by the IMF in exchange for rescue packages during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, according to Huang.

“Southeast Asian countries will welcome the proposal,” he said.

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A Spanish’s words in anti-cnn about DemoCracy

A Spanish’s words in anti-cnn:

"I agree with everything you said. The problem is that Spanish people don’t have a real opinion about anything. They just sit in front of the TV and listen what they guy says, that’s how they “learn” about the world. If the guy says that China has killed 1 million Tibetans, they’ll believe it all. It is the same in most Western countries, but here it looks to be much worse. Western Democracy kills people’s brain.

We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom”. So… why should we doubt about our system? Isn’t it perfect freedom?? We are supposed to live in absolute “freedom of speech”. So… why should we doubt about what we read/watch on our “free media”? Etc, etc. Democracy has become a religion, and everybody must trust the democratic system, the tv and the newspapers. If you don’t… you hate freedom, lol. That’s why it is so easy to make the whole society to hate China. Fortunately, a very few of us love something out of the West too much, so that we can see that everything is a huge lie. In my case, I love China. Reading a lot about China and talking to Chinese friends made me seeing my Western world with another perspective. I realized tha the West isn’t better than China. The only difference is that we are economically developed. We are developed thanks to market economy, not thanks to democracy. Market economy makes countries rich, not democracy. After visiting China for study, I saw that people there has the same freedom as us. Maybe even more, as you can walk around at nights in China. In the West, you might be killed thanks to huge crime rates. Also, there is so few drugs in China. In the West, kills are offered all kind of drugs at school!! This is our Freedom!! In China you see so little violence on the TV. In the West, families (parents, kids, elders) enjoy their dinner while they watch terrible movies where people are raped, killed, etc with a lot of blood!! That’s why Westerners love wars and violence so much, because we are educated to accept all violence as normal on the TV every day. After China becomes a developed country, many, many Westerners will move to China, you’ll see… I’ll move to China as soon as I finish my studies if I can. After some years, I’m starting to feel something special. China is not only as good as the Western democracy, it might be even better. China is growing fast, developing fast, you have so many problems, I know. China has many huge problems, yea. But almost every big problem in China is caused by undevelopment, right? When you become a rich country almost every serious problem will be solved, true?.

Anyway, in almost every aspect China is far better than any “democratic” country with a similar level of development (India, Latin America,etc). I’m starting to believe that when China becomes a rich country it will be much better than the West in most aspects too. Listen to me, Chinese friends. Our “freedom” is a lie. In every Western country, most youngs take drugs and drink every weekend. Crime is huge. People don’t have any hope in the future. We know we are rich thanks to what we stole to the rest of the world in the last century. We know that after 50 years we will be nothing because China and other countries are growing a lot. Our system doesn’t work, it is a big lie, and nobody dares to speak and even to think about changing our beloved democracy. In Europe people don’t have kids, we wil be a continent of elders by 2050. Many foreigners are coming from everywhere, otherwise our countries would collapse. There is a lot of racism growing everywhere. When muslims want to build a temple, there are violent riots. Some European countries (including mine) want to BAN muslim clothes so that muslum girls can’t cover their hair. Is this freedom? In China nobody would ban this, never!"

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Latest Chinese tests find 12 per cent of milk products tainted

By Deutsche Presse Agentur

Beijing - Chinese authorities found an industrial chemical
contaminating 12 per cent of dairy samples in the latest of a series of
tests it is conducting after tainted milk products began sickening
babies, a news report said Wednesday.

The latest tests showed 31 of 265 batches of dairy products tested contained melamine, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 President Hu Jintao vowed the government would provide better
oversight of the dairy industry on a visit to two dairy firms in
east-central China.

 "Food safety is directly linked to the well-being of the broad
masses and the competence of a company," Hu said in Anhui province,
according to state media reports. He added that the country needed to
learn from the scandal of melamine-contaminated dairy products.

 Melamine - which is used to produce fertilizers, pesticides and
plastics - was first discovered in baby formula last month when infants
began coming down with kidney problems. Four have died and 53,000 have
been made ill. About 10,000 remain in hospital.

 The chemical is added to low-quality or watered-down milk to boost its protein content and fetch a higher price.

 Agriculture Minister Sun Zhengcai promised that the government
would establish uniform supervision of all milk-procurement stations in
the country.

 "We will examine each and every milk procurement station and stamp out the practice of adding melamine to fresh milk," he said.

 Chinese authorities began testing baby formula and then expanded
their testing for melamine to fresh milk, yogurt and other dairy
products.

 Nearly a million tests have been conducted, and more than 8,200
tons of milk products removed from circulation. Two dozen milk firms
have been affected.