On Apr 2, 4:11=A0am, bluewave <bluew...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Here are reasons why Red China "cared" to exploit Tibet: 18 million
> tons of copper mines, crude =A0oil, gas reserved, tourism to Himalaya
> mountain, influx Han population and businesses over Tibetan.
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/20/magazines/fortune/lustgarten_china.fo...
Rubbish from Anglo-US media imperialist and I shall explain why.
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>
> China mines Tibet's rich resources
> The railway link to Tibet now appears to have been part of a broader
> plan to exploit vast deposits of metals in the disputed region,
> explains Fortune's Abrahm Lustgarten.
> FORTUNE Magazine
> By Abrahm Lustgarten, Fortune re****ter
> February 21 2007: 2:18 PM EST
>
> (Fortune) -- When China opened its controversial new railway to Tibet
> last July, international critics howled at the prospect that the
> region's culture and environment would be ravaged in search of
> resources. China repeated a solemn refrain, its officials insisting
> that the $4 billion project was aimed not at plundering the disputed
> territory but at bringing prosperity and economic development to
> Tibetan society.
Building a railroad into Tibet was never controvercial to people of
China (Tibetans included) except that the technology was difficult.
Tibet gets billions of dollars of central Government subsidy every
year which include education, health care, gasoline, electricity. What
is this talk about plundering Tibet?
> So much for that. Now China's Ministry of Land and Resources is
> disclosing monumental new resource discoveries all across Tibet, and
> it turns out the findings are the culmination of a secret seven-year,
> $44 million survey project which preceded the railway construction in
> the first place.
> Next stop, Lhasa
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> In 1999 more than 1000 researchers divided into 24 separate regiments
> and fanned out across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, geologically mapping
> an area the size of California, Texas and Montana for the first time
> ever. Their findings: 16 major new deposits of copper, iron, lead,
> zinc and other minerals worth an estimated $128 billion, according to
> articles published last week on the website of the China Tibet
> Information Center, a government-run ****tal.
>
> "Lack of resources has been a bottleneck for the economy," Meng
> Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey, said in the
> statements. The discoveries in Tibet are prompting China to re-
> evaluate its potential domestic resources, and "will alleviate the
> mounting resources pressure China is facing."
>
> In fact, if proven, the new reserves make Tibet one of the richest
> regions in China's territory and could ****ft the country's reliance on
> im****ts of copper and iron altogether, affecting international
> commodity markets way beyond China. Altogether Tibet is now said to
> hold as much as 40 million tons of copper - one third of China's total
> - 40 million tons of lead and zinc, and more than a billion tons of
> high-grade iron.
China's mineral reserve, if true, belongs to the whole nation, unlike
US or Canada where they are exploited for the benifit of few rich
tycoons.
If you understand what you read, you will know that turing mineral
reserve into usable minerals takes a huge amout of investment. That's
why the Anglo-USA alliance cornered most of the world's mineral
supply. Have they ever generously shared it with the native of America
or Australia.
The Qinghai Tibetan plateau is the world's most sparsely populated
region. Vitually nobody lives there except for the PLA soldiers
guarding the railroad.
It's too cold and lacking in oxygen for people to live. It is
rediculous to claim that it exclusively belongs to CIA's favorite
tribe.
> The announcement comes at a time when Tibetans are struggling to
> adjust to an astronomical increase in the number of tourists and
> Chinese settlers traveling on the 710-mile railway extention. In Lhasa
> last fall hotels were booked to capacity, the city's streets were
> clogged with bumper-to-bumper traffic, and a gold-rush mentality
> pervaded among newly-arrived entrepreneurs seeking at least a small-
> scale piece of the mineral riches.
Without tourism Tibet will be worse.
There is a golden rule about western media. Anything good for real
Tibet is bad for the armchair critic.
> One Chengdu-based hotelier blithely bragged he had invested $2 million
> to startup a private iron mining operation six hour's drive from
> Lhasa. At least six major Canadian and Australian mining companies
> also have stakes in Chinese consortiums set up to operate on the
> plateau. China is the world's largest im****ter of iron ore - 326
> million tons last year - much of which feeds its insatiable steel
> mills and in turn its ballooning construction and auto industries.
>
> High-grade iron prices have more than tripled in the last two years,
> driving up development costs world-wide, at least partially because of
> China's demand. Among the Tibet discoveries is China's first
> substantial rich-iron supply, a seam called Nyixung, which alone is
> expected to contain as much as 500 million tons.
> Wind power blows through China
>
> That's enough to put an expected 20% of Chinese iron im****ters out of
> business this year and, according to China Geological Survey's vice
> director Zhang Hongtao, "may relieve the country's three-decade long
> dependency on iron im****ts."
>
> The new copper reserves are no less substantial. A 250-mile seam of
> the metal has been found along Tibet's environmentally cherished
> Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge. One mine there called Yulong, already described
> as the second-largest reserve in China, is now estimated to hold as
> much as 18 million tons according to the government news site Xinhua
> and could soon become the largest copper mine in the country, helping
> to feed China's hyper-charged metabolism for the metal used for
> electrical wiring and generation.
>
> In all, three new Tibetan copper finds increase China's total copper
> reserves by a third, according to the international mining industry
> website Mineweb, and, once production comes online, will decrease
> im****ts by the same amount. China, which until now has im****ted much
> of its copper from Chile, is estimated to hold 5.6% of the world's
> copper and is its seventh largest producer.
>
> While trans****tation development continues - a fresh set of satellite
> images on Google shows a large increase in road construction branching
> off the new railway route - education and health care spending in
> Tibet continue to lag far behind the rest of China, provoking the ire
> of human rights advocates.
>
> "Clearly China's leaders have never intended the railway to benefit
> Tibetans," says Matt Whitticase at the London-based organization Free
> Tibet Campaign. And future development priorities do little to alter
> that image. Last March China announced - among the national priorities
> listed in its 11th Ten-Year Plan - an extension of the railway from
> its present terminal in Lhasa to the western city of ****gatze, and
> beyond.
>
> What's there? According to the Geological Survey's hopeful Zhang,
> "super-large" crude oil and gas reserves in Tibet's far-western
> Qiangtang Basin, as well as large quantities of oil shale deposits in
> areas west of the new train line.
lol!
That explain USA's interest in Tibet.
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