Southern Boy to World News · 3 hours agoColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!imagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down112file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@a.gup.pe
arrow-up128arrow-down1imageColombia, historically the most obedient US client regime in Latin America, is joining the Belt and Road Initiative!Southern Boy to World News · 3 hours agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: worldnews@a.gup.pe
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21080081 https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1842789775968759982#m
minus-squareSouthern BoyOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down8·3 hours agoIf it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
minus-squareZexks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 hour 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 BoyOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 hour ago“Go read” the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?
minus-squareSouthern BoyOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down8·2 hours agoYes, “tankies” do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
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.