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Originally posted by Claeren@Aug 24 2005, 08:46 AM
This is so easy to solve it is just silly.
Propose a private-public partnership to build a 1 million barrel/day pipeline to the pacfic coast with infrastucture to increase that by 1mbpd twice.
The thought of 3 million barrels per day of oil going directly to China is MORE then enough to solve this problem. (We received visits from a dozen senior American officials and made CNN (etc) after the announcements of an 80k/day pipeline!)
Need a little more leverage?
Invite 10,000 Chinese troops to Canada for 'practice excercises'.
On a side note, the Chinese President is visiting in a couple weeks... !!!!
For America no issue is unconnected relative to any other (ie - never as simple trade v. trade). If Canada's only 'friend' is America then that pragmatic friend has us by the balls. If our (America's old best friend) new best friend is their competitor in the new world order, China, we have THEM by the balls.
Claeren.
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Great so we're willing to get into bed with a country with a deplorable human rights record, and threaten America not on the level of economics, but on the level of national security.
Wow thats stunning
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