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Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:24:08 AM
China, Ecuador vow to further military ties
I would think this has in part to do with protecting the proposed construction of a future oil port on Colombia’s pacific coast to access Asian markets for the export of Venezuelan oil.
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Colombia is sandwiched between Venezuela, a strategic ally of China, and Ecuador.
China never could resist a port.
The Iraq war may have knocked Colombia off the front page, but Mideast chaos has made South America's energy resources more strategic to the United States. Colombia itself is among the top 15 global suppliers to the United States, and Uribe hopes to privatize the country's oil industry as part of his push to join President Bush's Free Trade Area of the Americas. Venezuela, bordering Colombia, is the fourth-largest U.S. supplier after Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Canada. Venezuela's populist leader Hugo Chavez is himself a White House target for Western hemisphere "regime change" - as seen by the current push for sanctions.
Meanwhile, the oil industry has charted a new thrust into the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia - countries all now receiving U.S. military aid under the Andean Regional Initiative, the Bush administration's expansion of President Bill Clinton's "Plan Colombia."
The White House has now dropped the fiction that Plan Colombia is an anti-drug operation.
#msg-4689000
-Am
China, Ecuador vow to further military ties
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-02 20:06:24
BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Both China and Ecuador expressed the hope to increase military cooperation here Thursday.
While meeting with Victor Rosero, Ecuador's chief of the joint command of the armed forces, Xu Caihou, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, said that Sino-Ecuadorian relations have progressed smoothly since the two countries forged diplomatic ties almost 25 years ago.
The two countries have increased exchange of visits and kept close cooperation on many major international issues, Xu said.
"In recent years, the army-to-army relations have also showed agood momentum of development," Xu said. "China holds an active attitude toward Sino-Ecuadorian military exchanges and cooperationand would like to make joint efforts to further the military ties."
Xu briefed Rosero on China's economic development and military reform with Chinese characteristics.
Xu also appreciated Ecuador's support to China on the Taiwan issue.
Ecuador can learn from China's experience on economic development and military reform and is willing to substantiate itscooperation with China in defense and other fields, he said.
Rosero also reaffirmed Ecuadorian government's one-China stance.
Rosero started his China visit Tuesday as guest of Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Enditem
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/02/content_2287959.htm
I would think this has in part to do with protecting the proposed construction of a future oil port on Colombia’s pacific coast to access Asian markets for the export of Venezuelan oil.
#msg-3819235
Colombia is sandwiched between Venezuela, a strategic ally of China, and Ecuador.
China never could resist a port.
The Iraq war may have knocked Colombia off the front page, but Mideast chaos has made South America's energy resources more strategic to the United States. Colombia itself is among the top 15 global suppliers to the United States, and Uribe hopes to privatize the country's oil industry as part of his push to join President Bush's Free Trade Area of the Americas. Venezuela, bordering Colombia, is the fourth-largest U.S. supplier after Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Canada. Venezuela's populist leader Hugo Chavez is himself a White House target for Western hemisphere "regime change" - as seen by the current push for sanctions.
Meanwhile, the oil industry has charted a new thrust into the Amazon regions of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia - countries all now receiving U.S. military aid under the Andean Regional Initiative, the Bush administration's expansion of President Bill Clinton's "Plan Colombia."
The White House has now dropped the fiction that Plan Colombia is an anti-drug operation.
#msg-4689000
-Am
China, Ecuador vow to further military ties
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-02 20:06:24
BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Both China and Ecuador expressed the hope to increase military cooperation here Thursday.
While meeting with Victor Rosero, Ecuador's chief of the joint command of the armed forces, Xu Caihou, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, said that Sino-Ecuadorian relations have progressed smoothly since the two countries forged diplomatic ties almost 25 years ago.
The two countries have increased exchange of visits and kept close cooperation on many major international issues, Xu said.
"In recent years, the army-to-army relations have also showed agood momentum of development," Xu said. "China holds an active attitude toward Sino-Ecuadorian military exchanges and cooperationand would like to make joint efforts to further the military ties."
Xu briefed Rosero on China's economic development and military reform with Chinese characteristics.
Xu also appreciated Ecuador's support to China on the Taiwan issue.
Ecuador can learn from China's experience on economic development and military reform and is willing to substantiate itscooperation with China in defense and other fields, he said.
Rosero also reaffirmed Ecuadorian government's one-China stance.
Rosero started his China visit Tuesday as guest of Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Enditem
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/02/content_2287959.htm
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