主题：【文摘】力拓中国区业务总经理胡士泰被拘留 -- strain2
家园 攘外必先安内 这次钢协走麦城而且下不来台，表面原因是错过了年初最佳时机，现在都没本钱了还有什麽可以硬撑的，更深层次的原因是落后产能的遍地开花和矿石无序进口以及疯狂炒作，这次间谍门不过是个插曲
攘外必先安内，仅仅捉几个内奸演演戏，哄哄国人是不够的
家园 【文摘】美国商务部长要跟中国谈力拓间谍案 美国商务部长要跟中国谈力拓间谍案
http://chinese.wsj.com/gb/20090716/bus083359.asp?source=whatnews2
美国商务部长骆家辉(Gary Locke)表示，在中国经营的跨国公司必须获得保证而且能够确信其员工将受到公平对待。骆家辉还表示，将在周四与中国总理温家宝会晤时提及澳大利亚公司雇员在华被拘留一事。
骆家辉周三在中国接受美国有线电视新闻网(Cable News Network, 简称CNN)的采访时称，我们必须继续呼吁中国增加执法的透明度和公正性，以及保证对外商投资及合作的开放度。
家园 【文摘】陆克文就力拓案强硬指责中国激怒中国民众 澳大利亚总理陆克文14日和15日接连就力拓间谍案强硬指责中国，警告该案将危及中国的经济利益，并称他将向中国最高层提出交涉。中国的公众情绪正在被西方在此案上的联合攻击所激怒。
《环球时报》引述澳大利亚《世纪报》15日称，陆克文的警告表明，他在不断升级的外交战中采取了强硬的新路线，该案件给澳大利亚最重要的贸易关系投下了阴影。15日，正在中国进行访问的美国商务部长骆家辉也呼吁中国在力拓间谍案上增加透明度。
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关于这次事件，中国人手里到底掌握着什么？
感觉这次澳方获得的信息很有限， 无法做出准确的反应。
是欲擒故纵，最后让陆克文吃不了兜着走， 以便获得桌面下的利益？
最后老美会出卖澳大利亚的利益吗？
究竟是谁在虚张声势， 澳大利亚还是中国？
家园 至少我们发现澳大利亚搞不定了 希望政府继续强硬些，不要因为美国插手就手软，另外没准这只是美国政府表一下姿态而已，毕竟不干他们啥事
家园 不怕虎一样的对手,就怕猪一样的队友
家园 【文摘】传中国钢企私签降价33%合约 中国可能再次完败 http://news.sohu.com/20090716/n265251710.shtml
这边，力拓间谍案正闹得沸沸扬扬，甚至有呼声称，要严惩力拓，以维持中国钢铁行业的利益；那边，传闻说中国钢企却与力拓签订合约，宣布接受力拓与日本钢企达成降价33%的先发价格。这意味着，2009年中钢协牵头的铁矿石谈判戛然而止，中钢协希望达成的降价40%的目标或告吹。
中国在全球铁矿石的谈判中可能再次完败。
家园 打狗要看主人 不过大人们都不会让对方发疯,结果吃亏的还是那条狗
家园 怎么还是软下来了？中方接受力拓条款 搞这么大动静，最后还是接受力拓降价33%的条款（放弃了原来40%的降价要求）。
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Major Chinese steelmakers have accepted a temporary 33 percent iron ore price cut from Rio Tinto Group, and may allow annual contract talks to lapse, Umetal Research Institute said.
Some of the nation’s largest mills have accepted a “provisional” 33 percent price cut offered by London-based Rio, the world’s second-largest producer, said Shanghai-based analyst Hu Kai, declining to name the steelmakers. He said there may be no official announcement about the price agreement.
The China Iron and Steel Association, leading the talks, sought a discount of as much as 45 percent after its mills posted losses, more than the 33 percent cut agreed by Japanese and Korean steelmakers. China detained four Rio executives on July 5 for allegedly stealing state secrets that it said harmed the nation’s economic interest and security.
“Rio is unlikely to budge on the price cuts because of the arrests as it won’t be consistent with its business practices,” Hu said. “The talks may end quietly as steelmakers accept the 33 percent as a provisional cut.”
Rio’s shares rose 1 percent to A$49.63 as of 1:05 p.m. Sydney time on the Australian stock exchange.
Chinese authorities last week said they had evidence that Rio employees, including Stern Hu, an Australian citizen and head of iron ore operations in China, stole state secrets. China is accusing Hu of bribing steel executives during iron ore price talks, Australia’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said July 10.
All Measures
Australia is taking all measures possible to ensure the well-being of Hu, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today. Foreign Minister Smith will meet with a Chinese vice foreign minister tomorrow in Egypt to discuss the detention of Hu, Rudd said.
This year’s price talks between China and iron ore producers began in January, and passed the June 30 deadline without an agreement, becoming the longest-running in the 40- year history of setting annual prices for the steelmaking material. The 33 percent cut is the first drop in prices in seven years.
Hebei Iron & Steel Group, China’s second-biggest mill by 2008 output, accepted the provisional cut while the talks were continuing, Tian Zhiping, Hebei’s vice president, said last week in an interview.
The price talks are ongoing and may conclude soon, Zou Jian, a former chairman of the China Metallurgical Mining Enterprise Association, said today in Beijing. Zou cited information from the China Iron & Steel Association for his comment.
Settlement Price
Shan Shanghua, secretary general of the Chinese steel association, couldn’t be reached for comment. Nick Cobban, a spokesman for Rio in London, declined to comment.
The contract price for the benchmark Rio product was settled at about $61 a metric ton, excluding freight costs, for Japanese and Korean mills. Shipping the ore to China’s Qingdao port from Western Australia would cost about $13.32, according to the Baltic Dry Index.
The price of iron ore for immediate delivery to China rose 5.5 percent to $87 a ton, including freight costs, for the week ended July 10, according to Metal Bulletin.
Vale SA, BHP Billiton Ltd. and Rio Tinto have trimmed spot sales to China to ensure supplies to customers in Europe, Japan and South Korea which have agreed to the contract prices, Umetal said last week, leading to higher cash prices in China.
‘Swing Back’
“The steelmakers may swing back to buying from spot should the cash market fall in the future,” Umetal’s Hu said.
Rio’s sales on the spot market were continuing, spokesman Ian Head said from Melbourne today. The Financial Times reported Rio and BHP stopped putting spot iron ore shipments up for bid, citing the Steel Business Briefing.
“It’s business as usual,” Head said. The report was “not correct,” he said. BHP Billiton spokeswoman Samantha Evans declined to comment on the company’s spot sales into China.
Executives from 16 Chinese steel mills taking part in iron ore talks this year received payments from Rio employees, China Daily newspaper reported today, citing an industry “insider” it didn’t identify. Rio’s Head declined to comment on the report.
Laiwu Iron & Steel Group’s shipping executive Wang Hongjiu was “taken away” by authorities on suspicion of providing information to Rio’s employees including Hu, the 21st Century Business Herald said today, without citing anyone.
Rio had relocated mid-level and junior expatriate staff from its Shanghai office to Hong Kong and Singapore before the arrest and detention of Hu, the Australian Financial Review reported today. Rio’s Head declined to comment.
--Helen Yuan, Rebecca Keenan, Xiao Yu, Brett Foley, Gemma Daley. Editors: Tan Hwee Ann, Keith Gosman.
To contact the Bloomberg News staff on this story: Helen Yuan in Shanghai at [email protected]