{"id":10481,"date":"2011-09-25T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-24T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:09:19","slug":"-Iceland-s-fear-of-Dr-No-s-Chinese-Communist-Domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10481","title":{"rendered":"Iceland&#8217;s fear of Dr. No&#8217;s Chinese Communist Domination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mix in a caldron: lots of fear of Communist domination, one billionaire property developer with a poet\u2019s soul, a dash of James Bond and a soup\u00e7on of \u201cyellow peril\u201d \u2014 the story of Huang Nubo\u2019s bid for a piece of Iceland shows, above all, widespread unease about China\u2019s rise, analysts say.  Speculation erupted this month after Mr. Huang, the founder and chairman of the Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, announced plans to buy 300 square kilometers, or 116 square miles, of Iceland\u2019s harshly beautiful, remote northeast \u2014 0.3 percent of the country\u2019s land area. Mr. Huang plans to invest $200 million in a luxury 120-room hotel, airport, golf course and horse-riding facilities, the Chinese news media said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Was Mr. Huang an agent of domination like Dr. No, the half-Chinese, half-German villain of the eponymous 1962 Bond film, the Icelandic political commentator Egill Helgason wrote, ironically, in The Reykjavik Grapevine?<\/strong>  LOL <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Dr. No Intro<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ql-scFVT6bM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Was this the beginning of the Nordic nation\u2019s very own \u201cCentury of Humiliation,\u201d that period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th when foreigners took over Chinese territory, thrusting it into a state of semicolonialism?  Or, perhaps, was it a harbinger of things to come for Europe, as the continent struggles with enormous debt and low economic growth while China zooms ahead, purchasing ports in Greece and the sovereign debt of struggling nations like Portugal, which once rented the Chinese enclave of Macao for 500 taels (about 19 kilograms, or 42 pounds) of silver per year? Was the dark hand of the Chinese Communist Party behind Mr. Huang\u2019s initial bid of 1 billion Icelandic krona, or about $8.6 million, for the snow-swept Grimsstadir a Fjollum farm, with the real goal access to frozen sea passages destined to become economically and strategically important as the globe warms up?  \u201cNo,\u201d Mr. Huang has said for weeks. \u201cI was moved by that bleak, wild nature,\u201d he told The International Herald Leader, a newspaper affiliated with Xinhua, the state-run news agency.  The developer, who has climbed Mount Everest twice and published six volumes of poetry with titles like \u201cDon\u2019t Love Me Any More,\u201d \u201clooks forward to become a wandering poet and lead a wild life,\u201d according to his company\u2019s Web site. <\/p>\n<p><strong>When it comes to China, \u201cpeople tend to believe everything is connected to the government, and to a certain extent it\u2019s true,\u201d he said, speaking by telephone from Oslo, where he is promoting his book in advance of its publication in the United States in January.  Still, while Mr. Chan emphasized that he did not know enough about Mr. Huang\u2019s offer to be sure, he thought it unlikely that the property developer-cum-poet was part of a government plot. \u201cNot everything\u2019s that well planned,\u201d said Mr. Chan. \u201cIt may sound like a big conspiracy but probably it\u2019s not.\u201d Chinese overseas projects are \u201cmostly about economic interests,\u201d he said.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/22\/world\/asia\/22iht-letter22.html?ref=asia\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mix in a caldron: lots of fear of Communist domination, one billionaire property developer with a poet\u2019s soul, a 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