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Just to add ... get a large enough swathe of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Mercosur countries, AND ASEAN, and it gets more interesting for Australia, South Africa, and India to make a deal, which is three of the dirty six. If that tips China in, its four of the dirty six, with only Russia and the US out in the cold.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 at 12:24:53 PM EST
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If China is in, they can ration American fossil fuel imports, inasmuch as the Americans have to pay for said imports with hard currency, and China has the capability to make sure that the US has no hard currency.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Dec 31st, 2009 at 02:20:24 AM EST
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