Cosco

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Cosco | Can Pay, Won’t; A big Chinese shipping firm takes shareholder value to extremes. Economist,
Aug 27, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/21526929
(Cosco "signed numerous long-term contracts a couple of years ago, when rates were around $50,000 a day for a 'Capesize' vessel, four to five times their current levels" in price)

Note:
(a) capesize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capesize
(b) Neena Rai, Chinese Shipping Row Creates Wake: Cosco slammed on charges it halted payments for charters; Moody;s says dispute is possible threat to others in industry. Wall Street Journal, Aug 31, 2011
says:
(i) "China Cosco is the publicly traded flagship of state-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co."
(ii) Cosco signed the contracts in 2008.
(iii) "Dry-bulk vessels haul coal, iron ore, grain and other commodities."


-----------------------------------------Separately
(1) Editorial: The U.S. Congress and Taiwan; The Taiwan Relations Act, like Taiwan itself, needs reinforcement. Asia Wall Street Journal, Sept 1, 2011 (available now).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904583204576542081762020382.html
("A precedent was set for such a move in 2000, when a Republican-controlled Congress threatened to force President Bill Clinton to sell Aegis destroyers to Taiwan. That became a bargaining ploy that helped a lame-duck Administration see its way to selling a bigger package of weapons and radars than it otherwise would have approved.")

Note: dead letter (n; First Known Use 1627):
"1: something [a law or agreement] that has lost its force or authority without being formally abolished
2: a letter that is undeliverable and unreturnable by the post office"
www.m-w.com

(2) Jens Kastner, Taiwan sets sights beyond US weapons. AsiaTimes Online, Aug 31, 2011
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MI01Ad02.html

Note:
(a) Linkou  臺北縣林口鄉 until end of last year and presently 新北市林口區
林口區
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E5%8F%A3%E5%8D%80
(主要位於平均海拔高250公尺的林口台地上)
is west of City of Taipei, which is the blank surrounded by 臺北縣/新北市.
(b) Kuang Hua VI class missile boat 光華六號飛彈快艇 (equipped with Hsiungfeng II missile, according ot GlobalSecurity.org) succeeds Hai-Ou class missile boat 海鷗級飛彈快艇--the latter is essentially
Dvora class fast patrol boat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvora_class_fast_patrol_boat

Dvora/Devora(h)--meaning "bee"--is the Hebrew counterpart of the English female given name (from Bible) Deborah.
(c) The article quotes James Holmes, an associate professor at the US Naval War College, as saying,

"The sea-control fleet could make a useful contribution if it sortied well to the east and got out of easy cruise-missile striking range. Opening a corridor into the western Pacific would represent an enormous service to the US Pacific Fleet. It would lower the costs to the US and ease a US president's decision to order US forces into the theater."

However, Taiwan can only rely on itself to defend itself. That is my doctrine. In any event, if Taiwan allows China's navy/air force to come to Taiwan's east coast (which Prof Holmes calls "eastern seaboard"--at first I mistook it to mean China's), it will be really pathetic (for Taiwan).

(3) 中国称航母试航成功. VOA Chinese, Aug 31, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110831-CHINA---AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-128821458.html

(4) 布罗德海德, 中国准备发射永久载人空间站. VOA Chinese, Aug 31, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110831-China-Space-128782963.html

, which is translated from
Ivan Broadhead, China Moves Toward Permanent Space Presence. VOA, Aug 31, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/China-Moves-Toward-Permanent-Space-Presence-128773673.html

Quote:

"Professor K.L. Yung 容啟亮 of Hong Kong Polytechnic University is helping develop equipment that China will use on the Moon next year. He suggests that while China’s space program is no more advanced those of other space-faring nations, a team of elite engineers and scientists is making incremental and cost-effective progress. 'The main reason is obviously salaries in China are not that high. The other reason is, they are developing a lot of their own components because of the high-tech embargo; it actually helps them.'

"Tiangong 1 is at least the fourth space launch China has conducted since mid-August [of this year]. However, the ambitious pace of the launch schedule is now under scrutiny after August 18th, when an experimental orbiter launched from Jiuquan failed to enter orbit when the rocket carrying it malfunctioned.

Note:
(a) Soyuz (spacecraft)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)
(soyuz is Russian noun for "union"; a series of spacecraft; Status  In service; First launch Soyuz 1, 1967)
(b) 中國探月計劃香港5人參與 精密相機將跟隨升空. 科學網, June 17, 2010.
http://scitech.people.com.cn/BIG5/11897079.html
("僅理工大學就有五人參與。最新一位是發明太空鉗的容啟亮，他將領軍研發能抵擋極端氣溫兼可自動定位的精密相機系統")
(c) Chinese Orbiter Fails to Enter Designated Orbit Due to Rocket Malfunction. Xinhua, Aug 18, 2011.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-08/19/c_131059071.htm

(5) 中国展开电视外交，央视频道将在华盛顿开播. VOA Chinese, Aug 30, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110830-CCTV-CHANNELS-VA-LAUNCH-128706008.html
("美国维吉尼亚州非营利 "MHz电视网执行长弗雷德里克·托玛斯(Frederick Thomas)为美国之音介绍说，该电视网一共有10个电视频道，10月1号开始，中央电视台的英语新闻频道将在该电视网的第3频道上播出，而央视的记录片频道将在该电视网的第6频道上播出")

Note:
(a) MHz Networks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHz_Networks
(studios in Falls Church, Virginia; Owner  Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation [, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation]; First air date  1972; Former affiliations  Public Broadcasting Service (PBS; 1972-2001))
(b) Tlast sentence of the report states, "台湾政府也曾经在这个电视网上租用频道，播出其侨务委员会制作的宏观电视节目。"

I checked the website just now, which shows it is broadcasting at least two programs in the MHz Worldview channel about Taiwan: Inside Taiwan
http://www.mhznetworks.org/option,com_worldviewchannels/Itemid,146/sid,2826/lindex,i/
and Taiwan Outlook.



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