Southern Boy to World [email protected] • 6 hours agoColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down119file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up117arrow-down1imageColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!lemmy.mlSouthern Boy to World [email protected] • 6 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21080081 https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1842789775968759982#m
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•5 hours agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative They’re gonna accept money from China in exchange for favorable trade deals.
minus-squareSouthern BoyOPlinkfedilink1•5 hours agoIf it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
minus-square@Zexkslink4•3 hours 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 BoyOPlinkfedilink-2•3 hours ago“Go read” the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?
minus-squareSouthern BoyOPlinkfedilink-7•4 hours agoYes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
ELI5?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
They’re gonna accept money from China in exchange for favorable trade deals.
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.