http://tygerland.net/2006/11/22/khodorkovskys-siberian-dispatch/ occasionally acerbic, cultural and political comment Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:16:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://tygerland.net/2006/11/22/khodorkovskys-siberian-dispatch/#comment-101360 Anonymous Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:14:59 +0000 http://tygerland.net/2006/11/22/khodorkovskys-siberian-dispatch/#comment-101360 Wouldn't a gigantic source of investment capital be made available to the Chinese government if it decided to sell its land assets back to the Chinese people. There would not be any point unless there was a worthwhile target for that capital? Siberia? A tie in with Russian resources and technical know how, Japanese, Indian and Chinese labour and markets and know how, could result in an Asian Economic Union that would dwarf the European one. Whats that old saying,'Who ever controls the world's island controls the world'. Wouldn’t a gigantic source of investment capital be made available to the Chinese government if it decided to sell its land assets back to the Chinese people. There would not be any point unless there was a worthwhile target for that capital? Siberia? A tie in with Russian resources and technical know how, Japanese, Indian and Chinese labour and markets and know how, could result in an Asian Economic Union that would dwarf the European one. Whats that old saying,’Who ever controls the world’s island controls the world’.

]]> http://tygerland.net/2006/11/22/khodorkovskys-siberian-dispatch/#comment-17174 rox Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:26:19 +0000 http://tygerland.net/2006/11/22/khodorkovskys-siberian-dispatch/#comment-17174 What I really find amazing is not the infinite variety of courses the world could take in near future (we should start collecting bets at this point, or it will all go to waste), but the fact that a former Komsomol secretary/computer importer/oil baron, currently imprisoned for tax fraud and fishy privatization, seems to have the credibility and required knowledge to play the Siberian Oracle, and in The Economist of all papers. Is it possible that all it takes to make the whole world listen to your visions of new world order is to get very rich, break a few laws and end up in prison (as long as you do it in Russia, of course, not in Texas; if you do it in Texas, you go to prison for 20 years and you don't get to publish smartass articles in high-profile papers). I find Mr. Khodorkovsky extremely fascinating, not because of his financial ambitions that put him in prison to begin with, but because of his hunger for global fame as a credible and respectable political analyst whose opinion counts. Anyone seen Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can? What I really find amazing is not the infinite variety of courses the world could take in near future (we should start collecting bets at this point, or it will all go to waste), but the fact that a former Komsomol secretary/computer importer/oil baron, currently imprisoned for tax fraud and fishy privatization, seems to have the credibility and required knowledge to play the Siberian Oracle, and in The Economist of all papers. Is it possible that all it takes to make the whole world listen to your visions of new world order is to get very rich, break a few laws and end up in prison (as long as you do it in Russia, of course, not in Texas; if you do it in Texas, you go to prison for 20 years and you don’t get to publish smartass articles in high-profile papers). I find Mr. Khodorkovsky extremely fascinating, not because of his financial ambitions that put him in prison to begin with, but because of his hunger for global fame as a credible and respectable political analyst whose opinion counts. Anyone seen Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can?

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