That "Belt and Road" is like a financial noose around the neck of countries foolish enough to fall for it. I was reading about how Montenegro got sucked into a billion dollar road to nowhere, that they now can't affoard to finish. If they don't pay China back, They have to cede land to them. Here's the money quote:
if Montenegro is not able to repay China's state-owned Export-Import Bank on time, the bank then has the right to seize land inside Montenegro, as long as it doesn't belong to the military or is used for diplomatic purposes.
If you get into bed with the Devil, you're going to get screwed. The US needs to fund an honest and fair version of this, so that these countries can get out from under China.
Who was it Patton? or MacArthur that wanted to keep going during WWII until we reached the Pacific? War with China is inevitiable. We need to make sure we're ready.
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When has the US ever been fair or honest about anything?
Do not forget, much of the colonization of the last couple hundred years came from the Americans as well as Europeans.
Honestly, China is no worse than the Western countries. We pillaged the same way.
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Ah, I see what you're saying re the United Fruit Company in Latin America. Looks like the people of Montenegro will pay the price for the decisions of their leaders.
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Yeah the United States havent exactly been saints on a global scale either. Not the Spanish, French, or Brits over the centuries.
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