Southern Boy@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 7 hours agoColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1imageColombia, 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 · 7 hours agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·6 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 Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10·6 hours agoIf it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
minus-squareSouthern Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down17·5 hours agoYes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down5·4 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 Boy@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down8·4 hours ago“Go read” the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?
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
Tankies gota tank.
Yes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
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?