Officials of the China National Machinery Industry Corp. met this week with Idaho state, utility and industry officials to show off their ability to design, build and maintain everything from power plants to high transmission lines.
The Chinese-government owned company, called Sinomach for short, is itself a sign of the growing economic and industrial strength China now projects worldwide. For Sinomadch the American West provides many of the same opportunities it already has tapped in places like Africa, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and even Iran.
Sinomach, is China’s third largest contractor with more than $14 billion in sales last year. Jeff Don, President of C3 of Eagle arranged the delegation's visit.
They talked to Idaho Power Co. and Rocky Mountain Power and the Mountain States Transmission Project about building the major transmission lines the two utilities have planned. They also talked with several other Idaho energy and manufacturing companies about projects ranging from coal-gasification, nuclear power to turning biogas into power.
Zhang Chun, director general of the company told state officials the United States represents a big market for Sinomach and that he was happy to get a chance to meet with the companies, arranged in part by Paul Kjellander, director of the Idaho Office of Energy Resources.
The visit underscores the changing face of energy development in Idaho, as well as the interest Chinese companies have in both business and investment here. China’s ability and interest to project itself economically worldwide is remarkable similar to the United States at the turn of the 19th Century.
“Your expertise, our expertise and your resources and our resources match up,” said Idaho Lieutenant Gov. Brad Little.
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And we can not find American company to do this?
I guess we have to say yes,since we owe a boat load of monies too those commies!!IT is too bad that we have to work with china in the first place!
Buy
Chidaho.
On Chinden.
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This should make the Governor happy ...
Well ... Idaho is for sale in exchange for Chinese investment cash and permanent legal status? This is the Governor's dream come true at the expense of hard working Idahoans without jobs and little or no access to college and universities as the Governor cut education budgets and salaries for teachers to the bare bone. After the resources are sold, what is the game plan?
Otter's Dream
will be Idaho's nightmare.
Not surprising from a governor that refuses to support Idaho businesses.
Why
Do they have a side business with excess drywall for sale?
Chinese contractor seeks business, investment in Idaho
interesting tag line as it just so happens, as coincidence of course, that Idaho Officials, if that's what we call them, are seeking campaign contributions from wealthy foreigners in exchange for citizenship. Yes at least the Governor has expanded his political boundaries to include China. I wonder what kind of Gerrymander does that look like?
What you say isn't exactly
What you say isn't exactly true. Under the Federal program, foreigners who invest a certain amount of money (right now, it is $500,000 I think) in enterprises in the U.S. that will create jobs can apply for green cards for him/herself and immediate family. You cannot get a green card (precursor to applying for citizenship) under the program for a campaign contribution to anyone. It must be a business investment of your own money.
Did you want your melamine baked, fried or with Nesquik?
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Jobs
Thank you Idaho's leaders for fostering more ways to put Idahoan's out of work.
SOLD to the highest bidder
I believe the number of jobs lost in the Treasure Valley is roughly equivalent to the number of manufacturing jobs outsourced by Hewlett Packard and Micron over the last decade or so, and now our state "leaders" are looking to outsource good paying American jobs to a boatload of coolies and some sub-standard Communist Chinese "corporation". Give me a break. If the schtooping you're taking from your elected "leaders" isn't completely clear to you yet, than I must suggest that you go ahead and donate your body to science right now because you must be brain dead already.
And and Andy and Ann and then some...
while that's a fantasy for most --- in Rock's writing it's common.
"Idaho Power Co. and
Rocky Mountain Power and
the Mountain States Transmission Project"
to infinitity and the Rock!
"...about projects ranging from coal-gasification, nuclear power to turning biogas into power."
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Yo Rock,
When you want to use the phrase from ___ to ____ there are usually only TWO items.
Or you might combine two things to show one end of the spectrum and then the third to show the other end of the spectrum.
Grade D-.
You forgot From Here To Eternity, pimp. For Shame.
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Impeach these traitors NOW!
Governor Otter, Lt. Governor Brad Little and Director of the Idaho Office of Energy Resources, Paul Kjellander are violating the public trust, not to mention federal law, including the Logan Act:
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This is sufficient to bring impeachment proceedings against all three of these traitors. Idaho is NOT for sale to any foreign government, especially Communist China!
[Patrick Wood, Executive Director, www.Idaho-SAFE.org]
Dementia is not curable but accomodation now helps a lot.
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It soo funny, years ago
It soo funny, years ago everyone was all up in arms about the "Commies" the Cold war, McCarthyism, better dead than Red....now we better start learning Mandarin Chinese so we can speak with our new masters. They got us without so much as a whimper, flat-earth economics and greed, we handed our country to them. Well I guess China wins