时事经纬
02-05-09
日美防长就加深安保战略合作强化同盟达成共识
盖茨就4月5日朝鲜发射远程弹道导弹一事，强调了进一步有效运用导弹防御系统的必要性。针对美国装备调整方案中宣布取消F-22战斗机新订单一事，滨田则表示，只要还有一丝希望，日本愿意继续考虑F-22。
吴建民：中美合作不等于中美共管世界
欧盟东扩的回顾与前瞻
2004年5月1日，波罗的海三国、马耳他、波兰、斯洛伐克、斯洛文尼亚、捷克、匈
牙利以及塞浦路斯同时入盟，各申请国均以全民公投的形式通过了加入欧盟的决议。
至此，欧盟扩展至25个成员国。2007年，欧盟还接纳了罗马尼亚和保加利亚成为新
成员，但从目前看，欧盟继续扩展的话，将遇到非常大的阻力。
联合国携手中国政府为农村提供低廉金融服务
由联合国开发计划署、商务部中国国际经济技术交流中心、中国人民银行和中国发
展银行立项的“构建中国普惠金融体系”为期4年，总投资1440万美元，旨在为中国
农民提供价格低廉、具针对性的小额信贷，保护穷人免受经济衰退的冲击。
中国去年持逾1.2万亿美元证券
从2008年9月开始，中国持有的美国国债超过日本，成为美国最大的债主。中国到今年2月底持有的美国国债比去年6月底增加了近2100亿美元。到去年6月底，中国持有美国股票1000亿美元，长期债券10760亿美元（其中资产支持债券3760亿美元），短期债券300亿美元。
2022年韩国将超过日本成第四出口大国
据预测，2022年韩国的出口额将达到1.19万亿美元，从2009年的世界第11跃升至世
界第4--虽不及中国6.92万亿美元，但会超过日本1.18万亿美元，因为日本随著海外
投资增加，产业结构实现高度化，本土的出口增长将会放缓。
Pakistan Says It Killed 50 Taliban in a Clash, but Residents Say Civilians Died
The civilian complaints and the Taliban resistance pointed to the difficult task ahead for the military in driving the militants from Buner, a district just 60 miles from the capital, where hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced last week, setting off alarm here and abroad.
Taliban free abducted Pakistani troops
"Around 60 Taliban militants stormed the local paramilitary headquarters and snatched 10 personnel around 1:00 am on Friday," Dir police chief, Ijaz Ahmed said.
Islamabad cutting on nuke budget
Why North Korea is So Crazy
An insecure regime with an economy that may easily descend again into widespread famine, and a leader, Kim Jong Il, who appears very ill, to judge from recent photos, is not bargaining from strength. Self-preservation is the name of its game. The leading decision-making body that Kim heads, the National Defense Commission, is filled with generals who most assuredly want to demonstrate that the regime still has muscle. These are people who know that war means their demise, whereas a bargain with the U.S., while it would require stopping nuclear-weapon and missile production, would give the regime legitimacy. It might also spare them from having to give up the six to 10 plutonium bombs they evidently have.
North's leaders not only consider nuclear weapons and long-range missiles a necessary deterrent, they surely also regard them as their only bargaining chips. And the bargaining can only be with Washington, which Pyongyang has recognized for some time as its best hope for surviving. From the North's point of view, any bargain would have to take the form of a new package deal that would reaffirm to Kim Jong Il that the U.S. is not hostile to the regime, accepts its legitimacy and is willing to provide long-term development assistance. Only the U.S. can persuade the leadership in South Korea not to seek to absorb the North or undermine it — so long as North Korea terminates its plutonium-bomb program under verifiable conditions. In sum, it can be argued, North Korea's security is actually the best way to promote South Korea's and the region's security.
U.N. Finds 60,000 Palestinians Risk Eviction in East Jerusalem
"Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem find themselves confronting a serious housing shortage caused by Israel's failure to provide Palestinian neighborhoods with adequate planning," the OCHA report says. "Because of the difficulties trying to obtain building permits from the Israeli authorities, and due to the lack of feasible alternatives, many Palestinians risk building on their land without a permit."
Ahmadinejad's Brazil visit startles Washington
"I don't think in today's world, where it's a multipolar world, where we are competing for attention and relationships with the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, that it's in our interest to turn our backs on our own hemisphere," Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday.
Clinton lamented the American loss in the region, blaming the Bush administration for its policy concerning countries such as Venezuela and Cuba. "The prior administration tried to isolate them, tried to support opposition to them, tried to turn them into international pariahs. It didn't work,” she said.
Washington accuses Iran of using its friendly relations in the region for promoting terrorism, spying and weapons.
Tehran, however, says the strong partnerships are the result of Washington's polices which has caused nations to oppose American imperialism and interference within their boundaries.
Russia not in favor of sanctions on Iran
Stressing Russia’s stand on Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities, the Russian spokesman said that solving Iran’s nuclear dispute is possible only through talks.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has recently said that Iranian nuclear activities are in conformity with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
He has also said Iran has recently had vast cooperation with the IAEA inspectors in order to remove ambiguities about its nuclear program and build confidence in its cooperation.
Gates: Persuasion better tack on Iran
Gates told a Senate panel that a military option would only delay Iran’s nuclear ambitions and would further drive it underground, making it more difficult to monitor.
Gates said the better option would be for the U.S. and its allies to convince Iran that building a nuclear program would start an arms race that would leave Iran less secure.
Tehran to host Iran-China cooperation seminar
Iran and China's trade volume stood at dlrs 21 billion in 2008 and the figure might hit dlrs 28 billion by the end of 2009.
UK bankruptcies hit 50-year high
On a year-on-year basis, the number of companies going bankrupt also rose by 56 percent to 4,941 in the first quarter of the year. At least 35,000 firms and 125,000 people would go bankrupt in Britain this year.
"With unemployment currently at the two million mark and the collapse of many owner-managed businesses the level of personal insolvency is likely to rise in the coming months," said Mike Gerrard of accountants Grant Thornton.
|
