China, Egypt ink nuclear energy deal

[KashifAsrar]

China, Egypt ink nuclear energy deal


Beijing: China and Egypt agreed to cooperate on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, in a development that could rile the US, a traditional Cairo ally.
The agreement was announced in a joint communique following talks in Beijing on Tuesday between Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.
“Egypt is not going to produce nuclear weapons,” said He Wenping, an expert on Africa relations at the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the top government think tank.“It won’t affect the international community, because Egypt will use the nuclear energy peacefully,” she said.
No details were immediately available on how the two nations planned to co-operate. The agreement comes at a time when both have announced plans to step up their nuclear energy capacity. China has an ambitious plan to increase its combined nuclear power capacity to 40,000 MW by 2020. Egypt is reviving its nuclear programmer two decades after it was frozen. AFP

 

[EagleEyes]

Pretty much all the countries have started to procure the nuclear energy. Iran should have a right to recieve nuclear energy too.

 

[sigatoka]

Pretty much all the countries have started to procure the nuclear energy. Iran should have a right to recieve nuclear energy too.

China has seen the money making scheme that Russia is engaging in Iran with Bushewar. It wants in.

What i dont understand is why the U.S. opposes the building of nuclear powerplants. When nations build nuclear powerplants to supply baseload electricity needs, it reduces carbon emmissions that contribute to global warming. Regardless of whether a nuclear powerplant is built in Iran, Paksitan, India, Egypt, Europe or U.S., it matters not where it is built to reduce green house gasses.

Unfortuantely the U.S. still continues to deny that Green house gases contribute to global warming and fails to take any steps to curb its emissions and also actively prevents other nations from building nuclear reactors to reduce emissions.

 

[KashifAsrar]

It is a chain reaction now. Not because IRAN is in to it. Iran is in to this since last several decades (In fits and starts) atleast. This is because USA is in middle east with 'Pre-Emptive War' doctrine. These gulf states are seeing the 'Birth pangs' of new middle east and want NOT to be part of this henious game.
Kashif