Chinese Loom Large Over Russian Far East

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(1) 俄指责中国挖界河将改变边界线. VOA Chinese, May 7, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110507-china-russia-121434629.html
("俄罗斯边防官员说，中国在未经俄方同意的情况下擅自挖掘乌苏里江河床的举动违反了两国边界协议中的有关规定。但俄国边防官员强调，中方有关作业目前已经停止。这已经不是俄罗斯第一次指责中国擅自挖掘双方界河，试图改变两国边界线。俄国边防部门以前也曾针对中国发出过相类似的指责")

(2) China's Growing Interests in Siberia; Change in Russia's Far East. Der Spiegel, May 6, 2011.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,761033,00.html

Quote:

A Russian woman in Russian Far East penned a letter to the president at the beginning of the year: "We have no doctors, no pharmacy and no work. There is nothing here! [Her village has a population of 713. Last year, 27 people died but not a single child was born.] If nothing happens here, we will have to go to China as guest workers. Or slave away in our country as coolies for the Chinese."

"Could an alliance develop in this region between two powerful countries that would finally put an end to American dominance of the world? One of the two has the raw materials that the other one needs so urgently. Or will the land of Vladimir Putin become a bulwark against an increasingly self-confident China, and thus become the natural partner of the West? Or will neither of these scenarios come to pass, when overpopulated China simply swallows up depopulated Siberia? A look at Mirnaya suggests that the third scenario could very well come to pass.

"The world's biggest country doesn't quite know whether it wants to be part of Asia or Europe, or whether it wants to develop a Western-style democracy or install an authoritarian form of state capitalism. 'Russia's death will come in either of two ways - from the East by the sword of the awakened Chinese, or through the voluntary merger with a pan-European republican federation,' the writer and philosopher Konstantin Leontyev wrote in 1891. * * * But the country is now far too weak for that [multipolar world]. For this reason, forward thinkers like government foreign-policy advisor Sergey Karaganov advocate an alliance with the EU.

"The Russian authorities paid for the [Armenian] family's move [to near Blagoveshchensk 海兰泡], and gave them land, 14 calves, 2 cows and

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This just out.

(a) 管淑平, 台灣移民 陳碩茂當選星國會議員. Liberty Times, May 8, 2011 (available now).
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/may/8/today-p6.htm
(b) The ruling party of Singapore, People’s Action Party, won  81 out of 87 parliamentary seats--and 60.1 percent of the popular vote, down from 66.6% in 2006 and 75.3% in 2001.


【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (1) 俄指责中国挖界河将改变边界线. VOA Chinese, May 7, 2011
: http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110507-china-russia-121434629.html
: ("俄罗斯边防官员说，中国在未经俄方同意的情况下擅自挖掘乌苏里江河床的举动违反了两国边界协议中的有关规定。但俄国边防官员强调，中方有关作业目前已经停止。
: (以下引言省略...)

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