Beijing Debuts World's Largest Airport Terminal

Times of London   |  Jane Macartney   |   September 13, 2007 08:35 PM


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China offered a first glimpse into the world's biggest airport terminal yesterday and admitted that the £1.8 billion colossus will soon be too small to cope with demand.

The new Terminal 3 will allow 90 million passengers to pass through Beijing Capital International Airport by 2012. That compares with the 67.7 million currently handled by Heathrow, the world's busiest airport.

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Now all the millions of homeless in China have a place to live!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:11 PM on 09/14/2007

The sleeping giant is rising.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:16 PM on 09/14/2007

This is no suprise. China has become the Sweatshop for the world - literally.

Corporate people from all countries - the West in particular - must shuttle in and out constantly to keep these wheels turning while the poor Chinese workers sweat and toil for small change.

The big winners are a few Chinese and Western billionaires. The big losers: almost everyone else in the world.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:18 PM on 09/14/2007

Fasten your seatbelts and check to see if you've still got both kidneys.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 PM on 09/14/2007

Beijing debuts first airport terminal that looks like an android woman in a corset with a thong up her derriere.

Much better.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:06 PM on 09/14/2007

All the better to launch huge invasions with, my dear..!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:45 PM on 09/14/2007

I hope it's not full of lead like everything else from that country!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 AM on 09/14/2007

Beijing may have the biggest airport terminal but American't still has the biggest airhead president.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:30 AM on 09/14/2007

It's kindda depressing so close to the anniversary of 9/11. Dubai, world hdqtrs for Haliburton, boasts the largest building in the world. Bejing boasts the largest airport in the world with an economy promoted by U.S. corporate outsourcing and investment.

The U.S. is funding the world's current largest tarpit & quagmire : the Iraq War. $$$$$ That's "progress" ?

What shitkicker, rednecked, braindead, mentality is still behind "stay the course" ???? Think about it. Somebody is the fool and somebody is doing the fooling....

have a nice day. :>)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:22 AM on 09/14/2007

Way back in my distant past, Americans boasted that they had the biggest this and that - biggest factories, biggest hydroelectric dams, tallest buildings, on and on.

No more.

We have the world's biggest military force, but it's having a hard time in the current shooting war.

Somebody keeps posting a Rush rant about how the U. S. dominates the world. Obviously, it's no longer true, except in the area of mass destruction.

I for one am not happy at all about the decline in the American ability to dream big, lead, and accomplish great and good things.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:14 AM on 09/14/2007

That's what happens when you consider yourself a developed nation. No further development is possible, and so it's all downhill from there.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:27 AM on 09/14/2007

Look at that airport. It's built with your money America!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:58 AM on 09/14/2007

We have shipped them our jobs, our corporations, our economy. They are living well and we are struggling. When the world figures out that this, the greatest country in the world, is owned by China, we could be in big trouble. I find it appalling that Congress could look at our situation when Bush took office (and I mean 'TOOK')and our situation now, and still not back impeachment. With over one more year to go with this moron in the White House, and a bar being set which will remove impeachment from our Constitution, we can wonder if we will even survive this person. After all, Bush has a record of bankrupting corporations. He turned us into one big business and is bankrupting us. It's said that we handle our money in the same way we handle our lives, in which case we have a clear indication of Bush's moral bankruptcy. It is time to impeach. That is what the people want and if Congress is still a government of, by and for the people, it will begin immediately.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 AM on 09/14/2007


suppose they gave an olympics and nobody came...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:14 AM on 09/14/2007

Not a chance. Even Bubble Boy has accepted an invitation to come.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:14 AM on 09/14/2007

Patterned after BB King's guitar.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:48 AM on 09/14/2007

Hmm, designed by a Brit with a Canadian mass transit system. Hardly a natively Chinese accomplishment.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:55 AM on 09/14/2007

Cool design. The problem is they probably paid for it with money made from selling our children poison toys, dysfunctional computer batteries, and cheap junk.
I agree with the last guy : Buy American.
However, American companies unfortunately are the ones who set up shop in China to cut Labor costs.
Better than Buy American : Organize Chinese Labor.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:51 PM on 09/13/2007

Exactly! The only way to counteract Global Corporatism is through Global Workers' Solidarity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:43 PM on 09/14/2007

Buy American.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 PM on 09/13/2007


remember back when WAL-MART first began to blight the american landscape?

MADE IN AMERICA and PROUDLY MADE IN THE USA was their whole schtick, their reason for you to buy at WAL-MART was to BUY AMERICAN

now their name should be THE GREAT WALL-MART

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 AM on 09/14/2007
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