Southern Boy@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!lemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!lemmy.mlSouthern Boy@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21080081 https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1842789775968759982#m
minus-squareSouthern Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIf it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThat china will own and use as leverage for later ‘fuck you over’ deals. Go read how well it’s all working out in Africa right now. Short version: china doesn’t build shit for anyone but china and there will be a clause that they ‘own’ it all.
minus-squareSouthern Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months ago“Go read” the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?
minus-squareSouthern Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoYes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative They’re gonna accept money from China in exchange for favorable trade deals.
ELI5?
If it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
That china will own and use as leverage for later ‘fuck you over’ deals. Go read how well it’s all working out in Africa right now. Short version: china doesn’t build shit for anyone but china and there will be a clause that they ‘own’ it all.
“Go read” the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?
Tankies gota tank.
Yes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
They’re gonna accept money from China in exchange for favorable trade deals.
Nice username
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