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Not Strictly Business: China's Bid to Buy Unocal
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
(July 14, 2005)
It's a heck of an offer. In an 11th hour bid to buy Unocal, China's state-run CNOOC Ltd. last week offered $19.6 billion, cash, for America's ninth largest oil company.
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CNOOC Acquiring Unocal: What's All The Fuss?
by James K. Glassman
(July 14, 2005)
Should Americans worry that the Chinese want to buy one of our energy companies?
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Operation Bao Chuan: Say No to China National Offshore Oil Corporation's Bid for Unocal
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
(July 10, 2005)
In allowing a Chinese-government owned entity to purchase Unocal, the U.S. will be handing Beijing an asset of potentially strategic significance if it ever came to a military conflict.
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China Threatens U.S. Alliances
by Dana Robert Dillon
(April 6, 2005)
Less than a week after China announced its new "Anti-Secession" law, by which Beijing claims the right to attack democratic Taiwan if it sees fit, a Chinese official demanded Australia amend its 50-year-old alliance with the United States.
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The Power Struggle in China: Military Strongman Jiang Zemin vs. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao
by John J. Tkacik, Jr.
(September 14, 2004)
The power struggle in Beijing between China's military strongman, Jiang Zemin, and the country's two reformist government leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, is of momentous importance to the United States and East Asia. As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prepares for its Fourth Plenum this month, reportedly on September 15, the world will get a clearer idea of which way Asia's most populous, and arguably its most powerful, state is headed.
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Country Analysis: China Inches Toward Capitalism
by Andrew West
(April 24, 2004)
The Chinese have moved from Collectivist-Marxist, to Collectivist-Nationalist-Pragmatist philosophy over twenty years. The move from Marxism to Pragmatism was an improvement, but China will suffer from Pragmatism's problems.
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Trade Deficits with China: An Economic Analysis
by Bruce Bartlett
(September 1, 2003)
The rapidly rising U.S. trade deficit with China is quickly becoming a political issue. Many members of Congress are warning that China needs to take action, such as raising its exchange rate, to deal with this problem before it leads to protectionist legislation. A closer examination of the Chinese trade problem, however, suggests that there is less here than meets the eye.
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Physicians are Not Criminals; But Businessmen
by Nicholas Provenzo
(June 17, 2003)
The proper principle to guide all economic and political relationships is the principle of individual rights.
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Taiwan is not China
by Jeff Jacoby
(September 4, 2002)
Taiwan has become something much better than China: an outpost of liberty, a vibrant democracy, a bulwark of civilization, a reliable friend. It deserves our unequivocal support.
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Red Tiger Rising
by Melana Zyla Vickers
(August 14, 2002)
China's military leaders are focusing on several investments and advances cannot be mistaken for anything but preparations for conflict against the U.S.
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