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...expanded to 2.5 million bbl. before the recent attacks; Nigeria is now the sixth biggest oil exporter in the world. Western oil companies, eager for a supply from outside the Middle East, want to increase production from Africa. On a visit to Nigeria three weeks ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao signed deals to increase Chinese exploration and production. But Nigeria's role as a stable producer has taken a hammering of late. Militant attacks have cut production by 20%, hitting companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, and costing the oil majors and Nigeria hundreds of millions of dollars. "There used...
...been declining ever since our nation went to the all-volunteer force. We Americans have become so soft and liberal that we don't have the guts anymore to stand and be counted. The same is true in our civilian agencies as well. Clair Mendenhall Providence, Utah, U.S. Comrade Hu Comes Calling Re your story on Chinese president Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. [April 24]: In visiting our democratic country, Hu represented not China's people but the Chinese Communist Party, which has been holding that nation's people hostage for more than a half-century. Under...
...Comrade Hu Comes Calling...
...Hu's Coming To Lunch" [April 24]: In visiting our democratic country, Chinese President Hu Jintao represented not China's people but the Chinese Communist Party, which has been holding that nation's people hostage for more than a half-century. Under Mao Zedong, Chinese communists caused more than 70 million deaths. Today the Chinese are still not a free people. Many democracy advocates and religious workers are incarcerated in labor camps without due process of law. People are not allowed to organize political parties, and the government has strict control of the mass media. Thus the Chinese people...
When Chinese President Hu Jintao addressed Nigeria's National Assembly last week and spoke of the growing strategic relationship between China and Africa, parliamentarians gave him a standing ovation. But the National Assembly is less united on another matter: moves to change Nigeria's constitution to allow President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was elected in 1999 as the democratic savior of Africa's most populous nation, to run for a third four-year term in 2007. Obasanjo himself has not publicly committed to running. But with a bill calling for a constitutional amendment now before parliament, the President's backers...