时事经纬
23-09-09
胡锦涛晤奥巴马促妥善处理敏感问题
奥巴马 22日在纽约会晤中国国家主席胡锦涛时承诺,美国将继续致力于自由贸易,胡锦涛则呼吁妥善处理两国关系中的敏感问题。两人谈到了美国向中国输美轮胎征收惩罚性关税而触发的贸易纠纷,中方对这个问题仍然感到关注。奥巴马注意到双方在这个问题上有分歧,但他坚定承诺美国将继续致力于自由贸易,并抵制保护主义。奥巴马与胡锦涛还就伊朗核计划交换了意见,美方呼吁中方在朝鲜核计划问题上与美方展开合作。
奥巴马:对中东和平要有 "紧迫感"
奥巴马在会议开始前首次分别会见了以色列领导人和巴勒斯坦领导人,进行了他所谓的 "坦率而富有建设性的"会谈。
在随后的新闻发布会上,美国中东特使米歇尔说,解决定居点问题不是谈判的先决条件。他说,存在 "许多障碍",但在解决争议问题方面取得了显著进展。
以色列多次拒绝美国和巴勒斯坦关于全面冻结建立定居点的要求。但是在会谈后内坦尼亚胡说,各方基本认为和平进程应该在没有先决条件的情况下尽快恢复。阿巴斯说,他呼吁以色列尊重和平路线图,撤回到国际认可的 1967年边界。
连战呼吁两岸循序渐进
推动签署和平协议
连战星期一在美国以英语发表演讲时表示,对于和平协议的要素,台湾内部意见已经越来越趋于一致。他说:“第一,和平协议的基础是九二共识,或中华民国宪法下的一中原则,签署一个能维持现状的临时协议;第二,和平协议应清楚表明,两岸终止敌对状态。第三,构建信心建立机制。这是一个很重要的议题,但是不能采取一揽子计划,而是要循序渐进,逐步进行,比方说建立军事热线、非军事区,联合海上救援行动,观摩双方演习,最后讨论中国在台湾海峡的导弹部署以及台湾军购问题。要如何把这些议题纳入考虑,这是一个逐步的过程。”连战表示,第四点和第五点为台湾参与国际空间问题以及两岸经济合作,这两者在过去一年多来已经出现许多进展。
伊朗总统艾哈迈迪内贾德呼吁核裁军
艾哈迈迪内贾德说,核武器是威胁和不稳定的根源。
在星期三在联合国大会发表演说前,艾哈迈迪内贾德说,全球需要实现全面的核裁军。内贾德说,德黑兰不回避有关核问题的讨论。但他表示,只能通过国际原子能机构进行会谈。
布朗将宣布削减英国核潜艇数目
英国首相布朗将在联合国会议上宣布,英国愿意把现有的三叉戟导弹核潜艇舰队从四艘缩编到三艘。联合国安理会将举行会议讨论制止核武器扩散与减少现存核武器库存。布朗将在这次会议上宣布其意向。此前伦敦政府已宣布把三叉戟核弹弹头数目从 200个减少到160个,执政工党内许多议员都希望政府彻底废置这批武器。削减核潜艇建议提出之际,英国政府也正设法减少其严重赤字。
澳大利亚军舰成功拦截索马里海盗
澳大利亚海军军舰图沃柏号星期日收到商船“ BBC葡萄牙”发自也门海域的求救信号。于是一架侦察机和直升机在军舰到达之前前往出事地点,发现持有武器的人在疑似海盗船只上试图放置登船的梯子。军舰抵达现场后,派出登船小组。小组成员说,海盗嫌疑人承认来自索马里,但否认要攻击商船。这些嫌疑人被缴械,并被送回索马里。
中国欢迎鸠山倡议
合力建东亚共同体
外交部发言人姜瑜在例行记者会上回答记者询问时指出,加强区域合作是当今世界的一个潮流。她说:“我们希望与包括日方在内的东亚各国进一步深化东亚合作,朝著东亚共同体的长远目标不断迈进。”
力拓再卖资产变现财务状况堪忧
昨日,力拓宣布以 3.49亿美元的价格将旗下加铝复合板集团出售给瑞士Schweiter
Technologies公司。这已是力拓近三个月内的第四笔资产出售,其希望通过剥离非核心资产来获取现金流。业内人士称,力拓在10月要偿还一笔约58亿美元的债务。
2007年初,为抵制全球最大矿业公司必和必拓的收购,力拓斥资380亿美元收购加拿大铝业公司,从此债务缠身。截止到今年6月30日,力拓的净负债已高达391亿美元。为此,力拓自今年伊始就进行了一系列的“瘦身运动”。
7月,力拓以12亿美元出售加铝美国食品包装公司;8月,其又以20.25亿元卖出加铝包装业务的大部分剩余股权;上周,力拓则刚刚宣布了将加铝工程产品分公司线缆部门的56%股权出售的消息。除此之外,力拓还将自己位于巴西境内的Corumba铁矿出售给淡水河谷公司,回收7.5亿美元。
数据显示,力拓通过出售资产已经回笼资金将近 70亿美元,但分析人士认为,这与其庞大的负债相比仍显杯水车薪。
另据消息称,力拓还准备继续将旗下的包装业务资产出售,包括全球医药及烟草包装业务、欧洲及亚洲地区食品包装业务等。
亚行:中国刺激计划阻碍经济转型
亚行表示,中国的刺激性支出和创记录的银行放贷干扰了它在将经济增长模式从投资和出口导向型转向以个人消费为主方面的努力。因此,中国必须在维持所需的刺激的同时,平衡考虑过度放贷可能导致资金被用于股市投机和房地产投资,进而导致银行资产质量受损,并触发通货膨胀。亚行指出,如果发生这样的状况,将可能在中期内导致严重的货币紧缩,并会令增长再度受挫--如果中国的刺激政策不具可持续性,将会危及国内经济的增长。
美国乔治敦大学商学院教授菲利普
斯维格认为,亚行报告提出的警告反映出两方面的问题:其一是中国至今仍然没有摆脱对出口部门的财政倾斜,这反映在银行贷款和汇率政策方面;此外,全球危机严重影响到中国的出口业,因而刺激资金在一定程度上被注入受损的出口部门。他说,中国在刺激内需方面做出了一些努力,但仍嫌不够。
斯维格说,“刺激计划在一定程度上包含大量的基础设施开支。这方面是应该的,因为它主要用于内需。如果刺激计划进一步扩大内需投入,那将更为有益。同时它还可以进一步地改变汇率政策。这将有助于加快从出口导向到内需导向经济的转型步伐。”
美国总统奥巴马在接受有线电视新闻网 (CNN)采访时强调了纠正全球不平衡的必要性。他说,我们不能回到中国人、德国人或者其他国家把所有东西都卖到美国的那个时代。奥巴马说,匹兹堡会谈的重点将是要确保走向更为平衡的经济。
经济学家们看到,当前的全球经济危机已经改变了原有的供需模式:当前美国人的储蓄率已经是危机前水平的 4倍;而中国也看到依赖美国消费者带动经济增长的模式是难以持续的。
里昂证券 :中国明年或现贸易赤字
为近20年来首次
里昂证券( CLSA)亚太地区经济研究部主管Eric
Fishwick近日在一个投资者论坛上指出,中国正在以“超出预料”的速度成为亚洲国家的出口目的地。这主要归功于人均收入的提高和政府推出的经济刺激政策。他说,随著中国进口贸易增速持续超过出口贸易增速,中国很快就将出现贸易赤字。
Fishwick表示,出现这种情况主要应该是受到中国政府经济刺激举措的推动中国消费者支出水平大幅提高的缘故。他说,如果中国出现经常帐赤字,不仅仅对国内经济造成影响,还会对包括美国在内的世界其它国家造成更大的问题。他解释道,近几年来中国已经成为美国国债的最主要购买者,这也是美联储(Fed)得以将利率维持在记录低点的原因之一。若2010年中国出现经常帐赤字,中国将由国债购买者转变成国债抛售者,这也意味著美国国债收益率将走高。
Obama Is Considering Strategy Shift in Afghan War
President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in
Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R.
Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al
Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.
The options under review are part of what administration
officials described as a wholesale reconsideration of a strategy the
president announced with fanfare just six months ago. Two new
intelligence reports are being conducted to evaluate Afghanistan and
Pakistan, officials said.
Mr. Obama met in the Situation Room with his top
advisers on Sept. 13 to begin chewing over the problem, said officials
involved in the debate. Among those on hand were Mr. Biden; Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton;
James L. Jones, the national security adviser; and Adm. Mike Mullen, the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
They reached no consensus, so three or four more such meetings are being
scheduled. “There are a lot of competing views,” said one official who,
like others in this article, requested anonymity to discuss internal
administration deliberations.
Among the alternatives being presented to Mr. Obama is Mr. Biden’s
suggestion to revamp the strategy altogether. Instead of increasing
troops, officials said, Mr. Biden proposed scaling back the overall
American military presence. Rather than trying to protect the Afghan
population from the Taliban, American forces would concentrate on
strikes against Qaeda cells, primarily in Pakistan, using special
forces, Predator missile attacks and other surgical tactics.
In Mideast Peace Bid, Obama Pivots in His Demands
President Obama, who has met immovable resistance from Israel over his
demand for a full freeze on settlements in the West Bank, is largely
setting that issue aside as a first step toward restarting Middle East
peace talks.
“Our objective all along has been to relaunch meaningful
final status negotiations in a context that offered the prospect for
success,” Mr. Obama’s special envoy to the region, George J. Mitchell,
later told reporters. “We have never identified the steps requested as
ends in themselves.”
PM, Abbas draw contrasting conclusions
While Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emerged from his meeting with US
President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
Tuesday saying that the Palestinians had dropped their preconditions for
negotiations, and that the discussion now centered on the framework of
the talks, Abbas himself announced that nothing less than an Israeli
withdraw to the 1967 borders would enable resuming peace talks.
The prime minister, who termed both his bilateral talks
with Obama and the tripartite talks with Obama and Abbas as "good," said
the importance of the meeting was in its very existence, and that it was
an ice-breaker.
"There was a general agreement by all sides, including
the Palestinians, to renew the negotiations without preconditions," he
said.
The Palestinians, however, did not back down from their
refusal to renew talks with Israel until it declared a complete
settlement freeze, with Abbas insisting that Israel must halt building
in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.
"In today's meetings, we confirmed our positions and commitment to the
road map and its implementation. We also demanded that the Israeli side
fulfill its commitments on settlements, including on natural growth,"
Abbas said in a statement.
"As for resuming talks, this depends on a definition of the negotiating
process that means basing them on recognizing the need to withdraw to
the 1967 borders and ending the occupation, as was discussed with the
previous Israeli government when we defined the occupied territories as
the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem," he went on. "This was reiterated in
the talks with President Obama and in the trilateral talks. We believe
the American administration will review the positions of the two sides
in the coming weeks to make it possible for us to renew peace talks
based on our stated position."
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