标题: Chinese-Funded Hydropower Project Sparks Anger in Burma [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 11-8-2011 09:58 标题: Chinese-Funded Hydropower Project Sparks Anger in Burma (1) Andrew Higgins, Chinese-Funded Hydropower Project Sparks Anger in Burma. Washington Post, Nov 8, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wo ... QAGYFfxM_story.html
Three consecutive paragraphs at web page 1:
China "is the world’s largest producer of hydroelectric power, which accounts for about 16 percent of its electricity and 7 percent of its total energy consumption. It plans to increase hydro-generating capacity by nearly two-thirds over the next five years.
But under pressure from environmentalists at home and crimped by new legislation, China’s dam-builders have in recent years also looked to rivers abroad. They are constructing about 300 dams overseas.
Most of these will not help China meet its energy needs: They are too far away, in places such as Ethiopia and Sudan. But Chinese-built dams in Laos and especially Burma will pump electricity into China’s power grid. The dams under construction by CPI on Burma’s Irrawaddy River and its tributaries would, if completed, be capable of generating roughly as much electricity as China’s gigantic Three Gorges Dam [or "generating nine times as much electricity as the Hoover Dam," web page 3]. Ninety percent of that energy would go to China.
My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest of this report.
(b) CPI stands for China Power Investment 中国电力投资集团公司 (中电投 for short; state-owned), "whose vice president is Li Peng’s daughter, Li Xiaolin." Web page 3
Note: Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye
("Republic of China Air Force has four E-2Ts and two E-2C Hawkeye 2000s. The four E-2Ts had been approved to be upgraded to Hawkeye 2000 configuration")
Note:
(a) JASSM stands for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. AGM-158 JASSM and AGM-158B JASSM-ER (where ER represents "extended range) have range of 230 and 575 miles, respectively.
(b) JASSM. NorthLockheed Martin, undated. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/jassm/index.html
Only watch the first video clip (in the upper right corner of the heading "JASSM Videos" in the right column.