Chinese-made truck with a migrant Chinese driver leaves a gravel quarry operated by China Dalian Construction to supply their road construction projects nearby. Near Moengo, Suriname...From a communique leaked by Wikileaks, the US Embassy says, "The Chinese company Dalian (China Dalian International) is very active in road building in Suriname. Some ministries reportedly prefer to work with the Chinese in order to receive what is perceived as complications-free cash-flow, while others worry about long-term effects (and political liabilities) of such hasty deals. The Chinese, meanwhile, have their eyes on Surname's rich natural resources, particularly wood". China Dalian International recently paved the road that roughly follows the Suriname River straight inland to the jungle outpost Atjoni, which many believed was the first step to build a road to Brazil opening up the interior. In a conversation with a Da Ware Tijd Newspaper staff writer, Eleazer Pross, a Memoranda of Understanding signed on 2 December 2010 between the government of Suriname and the Peoples Republic of China was voted down in the legislature here. China had offered US$ 6 billion in projects to build a railroad, or road (it was never clearly stated to the public which it was) and a deep sea harbor in Paramaribo. This would have opened up one of the world's largest untouched rainforest wildernesses to rapid encroachment along the path of the railroad/road. Eleazer Pross said today, ?the Chinese demands were basically too much. They basically demanded the entire (interior) forest (for logging) as compensation for building the road?.