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That sentiment, or something like it, can be heard a lot these days in Africa, where Chinese investment is building roads and railways, opening textile factories and digging oil wells. You hear it on the farms of Brazil, where Chinese appetite for soy and beef has led to a booming export trade. And you hear it in Chiang Saen, a town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand, where locals used to subsist on whatever they could make from farming and smuggling--until Chinese engineers began blasting the rapids and reefs on the upper Mekong so that large boats could...
...front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time than George W. Bush had spent on the continent in four years--and pledged billions of dollars in investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. While Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, was visiting 15 countries last year, Hu spent time in the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya. In a three-week period toward the end of 2006, he played host to leaders from 48 African countries in Beijing, went...
...Instead China's key objective is to ensure a steady supply of natural resources, so that its economy can sustain the growth that officials hope will keep a lid on unrest at home. That is why China has reached out to resource-rich democracies like Australia and Brazil as much as it has to such international pariahs as Sudan and Burma, both of which have underdeveloped hydrocarbon reserves. There's nothing particularly surprising about any of this; it is how all nations behave when domestic supplies of primary goods are no longer sufficient to sustain their economies. (Those Westerners...
...Energy (SSE) after it was unable to prove its claim to absorb through tree planting the 140,000 tons of CO2 produced each year by customers. An SSE spokesman admits that scientific uncertainty made it impossible to verify that the 150,000 trees it had planted in the U.K., Brazil and Guatemala covered its assertion...
...scope and barbarity of the attacks. Rio is famous for its casual and carefree attitude to advance planning, and I'd always joked that Sao Paulo's bandits were better organized than their Rio counterparts. When drug gangs brought Sao Paulo, a city of 19 million that is Brazil's business and industrial capital, to a standstill in May with a four-day orgy of violence that left close to 200 people dead, I felt vindicated...