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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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Malaysian flight crash in Ukraine VS Flight 93 in Pennsylvania
by EndofMysteries ini wonder if anybody else has wondered about the differences between those 2 flights?
in the malaysian flight that crashed from 30,000 feet high, tons of wreckage, body parts, bodies, documents, etc, all over the place.
yet in the pa flight 93, just a crater in the ground, no bodies, everything supposedly vaporized.
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Another facet to this tragedy, is the question of whether any civilian aircraft should have been flying over Ukraine at all? It was no secret that anti-aircraft missiles were being used, and that aircraft had been shot down.
If the Kiev government (which claims responsibility for all of the Ukraine) had been acting responsibly, they would have closed Ukrainian airspace.
Why didn't they? A simple answer - they needed the money that's paid each time a commercial aircraft enters their airspace. The plain fact is that no matter which country finishes up "owning" Ukraine, its going to cost them a sh*t-load of money.
But the this tragic incident soon cleared the Ukrainian skies of aircraft, as this screenshot shows:
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Malaysian flight crash in Ukraine VS Flight 93 in Pennsylvania
by EndofMysteries ini wonder if anybody else has wondered about the differences between those 2 flights?
in the malaysian flight that crashed from 30,000 feet high, tons of wreckage, body parts, bodies, documents, etc, all over the place.
yet in the pa flight 93, just a crater in the ground, no bodies, everything supposedly vaporized.
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prologos:
memories of the Vincennes a humbling thought perhaps?
Thnx for that reminder, mate! I'd been thinking of that incident, but could not recall where/what exactly.
The web based journal, the Week, summarises a couple of similar incidents:
MH17 - just another mistake: remember the USS Vincennes
America never apologised for shooting down an Iranian passenger jet, killing 290 people, 66 of them children
COLUMN LAST UPDATED AT 08:55 ON WED 23 JUL 2014 In the dismal book-keeping of civilian airliners shot down by military forces, the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 is as clear an example as any of an incident in the cock-up column rather than the conspiracy column. It should come as no surprise that US intelligence officials briefed reporters yesterday that the plane was most likely hit by mistake.
Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists did not intend to bring down a civilian airliner; what they wanted to do was to shoot down a Ukrainian air force plane. It was not an act of terror but an act of war: in the most brutal and unforgiving style of warfare known to mankind, civil war.
There seems little doubt that the missile that destroyed the plane was supplied to Ukrainian separatists by Russia. President Putin, who runs a tight ship, must have given authorisation. However, he clearly did not intend the weapons to be used against civilians and wasn’t expecting what happened.
Nor was anyone else. Despite a stream of intelligence suggesting that anti-aircraft weapons had been made available to separatists, much of it made public in the past few days by Secretary of State John Kerry, Western aviation authorities with whom much of the most sensitive intelligence is shared urgently declined to declare Eastern Ukraine off limits. In hindsight, this looks sloppy.
More relevant today to those political leaders who seek to raise tensions between the West and Russia is the USS Vincennes incident of 3 July 1988. The US Navy destroyer shot down Iran Air Flight 655 as it crossed the Straits of Hormuz, mistaking it for an Iranian Air Force jet. All 290 on board were killed, including 66 children.
The ship’s captain William Rogers III remained in command of the ship until 1989 when he was decorated with the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer ... from April 1987 to May 1989”.
The United States has never apologised: although it eventually paid compensation to the relatives of the victims.
Paradoxically, The Week reminds us of an incident in which a Ukrainian missile shot down a Russian civilian airplane:
Sadly, there is an extensive archive of similar tragedies – most of them cock-ups too. On October 4, 2001, 64 passengers and 12 crew members onboard a Siberian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk were killed when the plane was shot down over the Black Sea… by a Ukrainian missile.
It took a while for Ukraine to come clean but its then president, Leonid Kuchma, to his credit accepted that the Ukrainian military had screwed up during a major live-firing air defence exercise. An S-200 ground-to-air missile (Nato codename Gammon) missed its drone target 20 miles off the Crimean coast and locked on to the next biggest flying metal object on its radar – Siberian Airlines Flight 1812 some 150 miles away.
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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China is certainly the worlds largest vehicle manufacturer, with the OICA ( Reference: http://www.oica.net/category/production-statistics/ )
stating that in 2013 China made more than 18,000,000 cars and over 4,000,000 commercial vehicles, for a total of 22,116,806 vehicles, more than 14% up on the previous year.
A large chunk of that production is from American car makers, manufacturing in China and selling in China, though many are also made for export to other GM and FORD markets.
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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designs:
Didn't Geely buy Volvo.
Yes!
However, my understanding is that the HQ remains in Sweden. However, Wikipedia lists three production plants in China, with one of them opening this year.
Assembly Plants
Torslanda, Sweden (Volvo Cars Torslanda - Torslandaverken) 1964–present
- Volvo V60, Volvo V70, Volvo XC70, Volvo S80, Volvo XC90
Ghent, Belgium (Volvo Cars Ghent) 1965–present
- Volvo V40, Volvo S60, Volvo XC60
Chongqing, China (Chang’an-Volvo) 2009–present
- Volvo S80L
Chengdu, China (Zhejiang Geely-Volvo) (2013–present)Daqing, China (Zhejiang Geely-Volvo) (Future Assembly Plant Opening 2014)
- Volvo S60
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Volvo XC60, Volvo XC90
Chongqing and Chengdu are located close together and have easy access to Europe via a new rail link.
Daqing is right up north, near the border with Russia and N.Korea. It has reasonable access to Europe via the older Russsian Siberian railway
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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No 1, SAIC Motor
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 103
Revenue: $76,233.6 million
Profit: $3,289.1 million
SAIC's Roewe 950 Fuel Cell is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. [YuHongyan/chinadaily.com.cn]
Note: I noticed (on my recent visit) that cars from this maker were common in Shanghai and Hangzhou.
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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No 2, China FAW Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 141
Revenue: $64,886.0 million
Profit: $2,622.4 million
FAW's Hongqi L5 luxury limo is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 22 2014. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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No 3, Dongfeng Motor Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 146
Revenue: $61,721.9 million
Profit: $1,333.6 million
Dongfeng S30 PHEV is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. [ZhangJie/chinadaily.com.cn]
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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No 4, Beijing Automotive Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 336
Revenue: $33,374.5 million
Profit: $1,074.4 million
BAIC's Concept 900 is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 22 2014. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
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The Six Largest Chinese Car Makers (by revenue)
by fulltimestudent infrom fortune magazine as quoted in china daily:.
no 6, guangzhou automobile industry group.
fortune global 500 2014 rank: 483. revenue: $24,144.8 million.
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No 5, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group
Fortune Global 500 2014 rank: 477
Revenue: $24,550.2 million
Profit: $52.4 million
A Geely Emgrand Hybrid is displayed at the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, also known as Auto China 2014, in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. [ZhangJie/chinadaily.com.cn]
