Re: Port City to Continue.......wow

[Hawk Eye]

.............Now Maithripala Sirisena's government, faced with falling foreign reserves, a balance of payments crunch and few, if any, alternative investors, is heading back into Beijing's embrace, albeit on better terms than before.

"The stance on China has completely changed," cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne told Reuters. "Who else is going to bring us money, given tight conditions in the West?"

Most of the focus has been on the $1.4 billion port city China wants to build in the commercial capital, Colombo, where cranes and diggers have sat idle for months.

But according to International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama, Chinese investors have also expressed interest in a special economic zone (SEZ) in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, where a $1.7 billion seaport and airport built by the Chinese are operating at a fraction of capacity.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/02/10/world/asia/10reuters-sri-lanka-china.html?_r=0

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France has signed a trade pact with Iran:
Planes for Oil.

Now with all what transpired recently in France with the radicals called "DASH", it does not deter them from doing business when the conditions are conducive for France.

So eventually, the Port City will go ahead, There will be gambling under a different guise and all the nefarious characters will operate from this strategic port city with more freedom than any other country can offer.

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Hours after reports of a confrontation between a Chinese coastguard ship and an Indonesian vessel in the South China Sea, a top Chinese diplomat called an Indonesian government official with a plea: Don’t tell the media, we are friends after all.

That request was rebuffed as officials in Jakarta called a press conference to complain about China’s actions. While Indonesia has largely been on the periphery of disputes between China and other nations over the South China Sea, the spat risks drawing the Southeast Asian nation into territorial contests in the oil-and-gas rich waters.

The Indonesian official said his government didn’t want to respond, but was forced to because China’s actions were especially provocative, and fitted a pattern of becoming more assertive in the waters. The official didn’t want to be named because of the sensitivity of the incident. The Chinese embassy didn’t answer four phone calls or reply to two e-mails asking about the call.

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Can anyone read the future ?

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Japan on Monday switched on a radar station in the East China Sea, giving it a permanent intelligence gathering post close to Taiwan and a group of islands disputed by Japan and China, drawing an angry response from Beijing.

The new Self Defence Force base on the island of Yonaguni is at the western extreme of a string of Japanese islands in the East China Sea, 150 km (90 miles) south of the disputed islands known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.

China has raised concerns with its neighbors and in the West with its assertive claim to most of the South China Sea where the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims. Japan has long been mired in a territorial dispute with China over the East China Sea islands.

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Two Japanese destroyers and a submarine docked at a Philippine port on Sunday near disputed South China Sea waters, where Beijing's increasingly assertive behaviour has sparked global concern.

Manila is seeking to strengthen ties with Tokyo as tensions mount over the disputed waterway, almost all of which is claimed by China.

Japanese submarine Oyashio and destroyers JS Ariake and JS Setogiri docked in the Subic port Sunday for a routine visit at a sprawling former US naval base just 200 kilometres (125 miles) from a Chinese-held shoal.

"The visit is a manifestation of a sustained promotion of regional peace and stability and enhancement of maritime cooperation between neighbouring navies," Philippine Navy spokesman Commander Lued Lincuna said.

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Listen Carefully !

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Tks kith

[mymoney]

Listened..., and readed the comments also....
පොඩි කුහක ගතියකුත් තියෙනවා නේ...?

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visit is a manifestation of a sustained promotion of regional peace and stability and enhancement of maritime cooperation between neighbouring navies," Philippine Navy spokesman Commander Lued Lincuna said.[/size]

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It baffles me how peace is achieved with war ships waiting to release their fire power!

[Hawk Eye]

A news again appears that the Port City project to be continued as the Chinese firm accepted conditions

Until we see some heavy vehicle activity in Port City not to trust media reports/ politico statement.

Treasury desperate for FOREX. RK s 100day Budget now back fired at him. i criticized RK during the 100day budget as its short term thinking to tap votes in General Election without any National Interest. Do they think people are bunch of monkeys

Politicians keep on proving they are of a elite NATO group :No Action Talks Only

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Tensions in the South China Sea are rising, pitting China against smaller and weaker neighbors who all lay claim to islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves.

China's recent construction of artificial islands complete with airstrips and radar stations, and U.S. patrols challenging Beijing's vast territorial claims, have caused concern that the strategically important waters could become a flashpoint.

A look at some of the most recent key developments:

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Tribunal overwhelmingly rejects Beijing's South China Sea claims

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1 - China vows to protect South China Sea sovereignty.

2 - U.S. Presses China to Be Responsible Power After Sea Ruling.

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Philippines rejects China conditions for sea row talks.

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Vietnam moves new rocket launchers into disputed South China Sea.