I really can't unsee Winnie the Pooh when looking at this dude's face.
Not quite just a bribe, they are literally buying them into their sphere of influence. It is also a political move to push US influence out. And since china has not ravaged the middle-east they have no bad blood with them, unlike the US. Not to mention that it is part of the new-silkroad plan that they have.
Hopefully this loan doesn't fall into the pockets of politicians there but is used to rebuild the infrastructure lost in the past 20 years.
Wait a second, China is using the US strategy against them. It is just another marshall plan.
It was unclear what the relationship between the bank consortium, financial aid and the overall loan package would be.
The exact same as China has been doing in the pacific, giving the countries loans that they can't ever pay back with massive interest then using that pressure to influence government.
pacific and africa and south america, thwy're trying to be a massive loan shark to extract concessions and money streams out of everywhere
I was honestly scared when the title cut out after the word revives on the main page, as I thought it might be about China trying to resurrect Mao or something.
The worry is that they are buying up infrastructure namely ports, and due to that can effectively blockaide trade in the future.
John Oliver had a good segment on China and their future plans to dominate trade. One of the more recent episodes
This is the new colonialism.
All roads use to lead to Rome, now they will soon all lead to Beijing.
They already basically own several African countries. China is on a fast-track to be the most powerful nation on the planet while the U.S. withers away at its own power via internal struggles.
And sadly, even after Trump, I don't see how our country can recover. The conservatives are so backwards economically that they're an active threat our county's ability to grow and retain power.
It would take a true Julius Caesar of a president to challenge China at this stage after the damage that's been done to our country.
Especially with how sentiment in the Middle East is turning against the US after almost a century's worth of meddling and involvement I can imagine the Chinese will take a very opportunistic approach with this.
I wonder if this is intended to diversify investments the chinese people make to A) avoid the property bubble thing B) have actual payoff from exploiting other nations instead of building 1000s of empty buildings
The thing is, just like how we tried.
This is probably going to fail. If there's one thing as an American I can warn Chinese citizens about, its the sheer effort of stealing money that the Middle East is able to perform with such tenacity.
Joke will be on them when they have complete influence over the Middle East and the oil runs out
They know the politicians are just gonna take this money for themselves and the economic situation of the Middle East isn't going to change to pay this back. They're turning them into client states.
I would rather have China as the world's sole superpower than the US tbh.
Please, elaborate.
US foreign policy vs China foreing policy.
People seem to get this idea that since the US preaches democracy and freedom in their mainland, that they'd follow that mantra with their foreign policy but since the cementation of the US as a superpower after WW2 they've promoted wars (Korean war, Vietnam, the war on terrorism, etc), dozens of coups with the intent of supressing left-leaning thought(Cuba, Argentina, Chile, etc during the cold war) and more.
China on the other hand is an authoritarian goverment with huge violations of human rights in their country, still their foreign policy does not consist of installing authoritarian goverments like theirs or implementing censorship in the countries they invest in, so in my mind they are clearly the lesser of two evils.
Considering what you just said about China is false signs they actually use the massive loans to control and demand free shit from countries.
Hell, there was the story about an Aussie news network getting yelled at.
Like i said, i'm not on board with everything China does, it's just the lesser evil imo. Ideally i would lean towards the EU but China is the only real contender to the US for now.
We have crippled ourselves with our division, and it's not something we can easily recover from. Over the course of Obama's presidency and the 2016 election, the Republican Party has bet all on Trump. There's no turning back from that, they've radicalized their base and convinced them that their worst enemies are fellow Americans, and elements of the left are no better in that regard. At this point I think it's up to the European Union to lead the free world, but I do not think they are ready for it.
You may want to look in to North Korea, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau. And while you're at it the Sino-Vietnamese War.
Aren't Tibet, Hong Kong and Macau all 'part' of China? You do realize i said that China has huge human rights problem in their territory (including subjugation of all of these regions)?
And in regards to NK and Vietnam, please point out when i said China has never intervened in other countries? Is it really that hard to differentiate between me saying China hasn't done anything wrong ever and China hasn't done as much harm as the US?
You said they do not "install authoritarian governments like theirs or implement censorship in the countries they invest in" China has outright occupied multiple other nations for the explicit purpose of installing itself in power over them. Vietnam and Taiwan are the only ones they haven't succeeded at, and even then they're still trying with Taiwan. Chinese investment is also the primary reason North Korea still exists, they're directly funding the Kim regime.
I meant they don't go to African/Middle Eastern countries with that intent, which is what the OP is talking about.
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