Tàu cấm dân Úc ngay trên nước Úc
Một
tư nhân Trung Quốc đã mua một hòn đảo của Úc và đã ngăn cản người Úc
đặt chân lên đó, khiến người dân địa phương và khách du lịch thất vọng.
Hình ảnh một phần hòn đảo Keswick đã bán cho Trung quốc.
Đảo
Keswick, một nơi du lịch được nhiều du khách ưa thích, đã được mua lại
bởi công ty China Bloom và người của công ty này đã ngăn chặn
người dân địa phương bước chân đến. Công ty nầy đã ngăn người Úc đến
gần các bãi biển, cấm thuyền của họ đến đảo và thậm chí ngăn chặn họ đến
gần đường ranh của hòn đảo.
Tin tức đã được đăng tải trên trang web Newsweek: Chinese Company Buys Australian Island Then Bans Australians From It (newsweek.com)
Lâu
nay chính quyền các Tiểu bang và tư nhân Úc đã bán nông trại,
hầm mỏ, cơ xưởng kỷ nghệ, phi trường, hải đảo, hải cảng v.v.
cho Trung quốc, mà người dân Úc không mấy khi hay biết.
Báo
chí Úc đã báo động Úc sẽ trở thành “Tỉnh thứ 28 của Trung
quốc khổng lồ”: “Australia is selling off natural resources, farmland
and property to China at a “crazy” rate, putting us at risk of becoming
the “24th province” of the East Asian behemoth”.
Vài vụ mua bán, cho thuê điển hình (click vào ảnh sẽ có ảnh to rỏ).
1/ Cảng Darwin cho TQ thuê 99 năm với giá 500 triệu:
2/ Mỏ than vùng Hunter, bán cho TQ:
3/ Windfarm Tasmania bán cho TQ:
“The
Australian airport owned by CHINA – and a secretive firm paid just $1
for a 100-YEAR lease on the land”. China trả $1.00 thuê phi trường 100
năm ở Perth.

Uranium to China could go in nukes (Nuclear Bomb)

Dan Box, The Australian, January 18, 2006
GOVERNMENT officials negotiating the sale of Australian uranium to
China admit there is no guarantee it will never be used in nuclear
weapons.
Australian diplomats, due to meet their Chinese counterparts today in
Canberra, are expected to push for China to agree to safeguards similar
to those signed by other nuclear weapons states that buy Australian
uranium, such as the US, Britain and France.
The agreements are designed to prevent the use of Australian uranium in
nuclear weapons. However, they allow countries with both nuclear power
and nuclear weapons programs to mix Australian uranium with uranium from
different sources.
The safeguards state only that an equivalent amount of uranium bought
from Australia – designated Australian obligated nuclear material (AONM)
– is not used in nuclear weapons.
This means Australian uranium can be mixed with uranium from other
sources provided a portion of the total, matching the size of the
Australian export, is used only for nuclear energy.
Australian officials admit the system means it is possible for
Australian uranium to end up being used in the production of nuclear
weapons.
“On an atom-for-atom basis it is theoretically possible,” a government source said.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said
yesterday Australian negotiators would insist that safeguards preventing
the use of AONM in weapons production would be a condition of any trade
in uranium to China.
“Use of AONM for nuclear weapons, nuclear explosive devices, military
nuclear propulsion (or) depleted uranium munitions will be proscribed,”
he said.
Responsibility for monitoring the use of AONM is held by the Australian
Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, whose director-general, John
Carlson, is leading the talks in Canberra.
The office already accepts there is public concern the AONM principle
means Australian uranium may end up being used in nuclear weapons. “This
overlooks the realities of the situation, that uranium atoms are
indistinguishable from one another and there is no practical way of
attaching flags to atoms,” it says in a 2000 report.
Critics of the current negotiations also argue that any export deal will
allow China to use Australian uranium for its energy, diverting more of
its existing uranium supplies to its weapons program.
In December, Chinese ambassador to Australia Fu Ying told an audience at
the Melbourne Mining Club that China had enough uranium resources to
support its weapons program but would need to import more to meet its
power demands.
China is planning a significant expansion of its nuclear energy program.
The Uranium Information Centre says China gets about half its uranium
needs from its own mines – about 750 tonnes – with the balance imported
from Kazakhstan, Russia and Namibia in Africa.
Today’s talks are the result of years of informal negotiations between government and industry on both sides.
WMC Resources, the former owner of the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South
Australia, lobbied Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in 2004 to open up
discussions on an export safety agreement.
While Australia sits on about 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium
reserves, the industry’s attempts to profit from this have suffered
under longstanding Labor policy restricting mine development.
A number of senior party figures, including federal Opposition resources
spokesman Martin Ferguson, support a change in the policy, widely
expected to be debated at the ALP conference next year. This would be a
significant step towards overturning restrictions on uranium development
in place in individual Labor-held states.
“It’s hard to accept that under the current policy we can, by 2011 or
so, have the largest uranium mine in the world (at Olympic Dam) and be
potentially the largest exporter of uranium in the world but, at the
same time, say that some other little uranium mine which is a pip on the
horizon can’t be developed,” Mr Ferguson said./-