GM Hummer Division to be Sold to Chinese Defense Contractor?


	GM Hummer Division to be Sold to Chinese Defense Contractor?

prin1

2-14-2009 8:10 PM

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prin1 says:

this kind of practice just scares the crap outta me...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64249137-ccbd-46f8-8dbc-da9eec54a1ae/575EDD5A-3F21-4F91-A643-25FD42713B0B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor" href="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor" style="font-size: 11px;">www.economicpopulist.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><H1 class="title">GM Hummer Division to be Sold to Chinese Defense Contractor?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>The buyer is likely <A href="http://www.chinacartimes.com/2008/12/10/gm-offering-up-automotive-scraps-to-dongfeng/" target="_blank">Dongfeng Motor Company</A>, a Chinese defense contractor.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>Why, then is any Chinese car company in talks to take over Hummer?  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>Why is DongFeng likely the buyer?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>Because of the Dongeng EQ 2050, which looks like this:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.economicpopulist.org/img/BFE03687-AEA3-4B7F-8BB0-35816CD67F48" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>That's right, Dongfeng makes Hummer knock offs. And who's buying these knockoffs?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>The <A href="http://www.chinacartimes.com/2006/11/13/the-chinese-humvee-copy-eastwind-eq2050-dongfeng-eq2050" target="_blank">People's Liberation Army</A>, aka. the Chinese military.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>That's right, GM is likely selling its Humvee division complete with the machines needed to produce the engines and chassis to a company that wants to supply the Chinese military with the model. (And it's not just the Chinese military buying them, Dongfeng <A href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA17/030/2006/en/dom-ASA170302006en.pdf" target="_blank">has been selling military vehicles</A> to the Sudanese government, where they are used in Darfur.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content%2Fgm-hummer-division-be-sold-chinese-defense-contractor"><P>Did they seriously think that no one would notice?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/575EDD5A-3F21-4F91-A643-25FD42713B0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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