TACO Strikes Again!!

@RisingMorningStar7 Small point of order: America depends on China much more than China depends on America. Many of the items China exports to America are complex manufactured pieces, from iphones to electronics for motor vehcles which would disrupt supple for a year before they could be replaced and certainly not at competitive prices. And thats before we get to the rare earths. By comparison, the few hi tech articles America exports are a drop in the ocean. And thats before we get to the fact that China exports globally and can sell much of its production to India, Asia or Europe. Indeed those deals are happening.😷

@whowasthatmaskedman pm, I let you know whats going on.

@whowasthatmaskedman Latin America or Africa hopefully Africa and Latin America gets with the program. It sad to see third world people fight over religion and political ideologies, I think their concerns should be modernizing their infrastructure so they can let new business flourish.

@RisingMorningStar7 South America is already on board with Argentina and Brazil. And of course South Africa is a founding member, while other players there are coming in.. To China, America is just another customer..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman I don't know, I just know brics is a long term thing and they are trying to use it population numbers as consumers, that's why China is so heavily invested in infrastructure projects in those regions because as soon as people become wealthier they can buy things they couldn't afford. America is not willing to take that gamble in investing in other countries like China. From what it seem they have no desire to change their practices either. But, yea China is trying to modernizing Latin America, Africa, Asia they know if they can control and developed the third world they can bring other business into those countries but that is not just truth for China but Russia. Rather is more a business model of what could happen or be,

@RisingMorningStar7 Yes. In other words, China is attempting to pull off the economic miracle for Africa that America did for Western Europe and Japan after WW2. Only without bombing it flat first..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Not just the rare-earth metals, either. China now controls most of the world's copper mines.

China is not helping those nations for their benefit, but its own; with liitle or no regard for the host country's people, environment and future beyond the minerals' depletion.

It's no more an "economic miracle" for them for their sake by China; than there was for Western Europe and Japan for their sake by the USA.

Just as the USA wanted to be the world's Number One economy with political control to match, so for the People's Republic of China now - and she is likely on course to achieve that. She may need a few decades yet but her rigid, one-Party political system, skilful management and utter ruthlessness allows long-term internal and foreign-policy planning a Western democracy, based on regular inter-Party "competitions", naturally finds difficult.

@ArishMell I completely agree with every word of that..And China got a head start with its "One Belt, One road" foreign aid scheme. But who is to say they will be any worse than the Americans with supporting puppet dictators and crushing unfriendly regimes? Just yellow faces replacing the white one..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman Indedd - I agree.

I am not sure how active China's expansionist "aid" scheme still is.

I think it has slowed a bit; but its Belt & Road scheme (it's changed name) was only ever to aid only China.

It has included buying the Greek port of Piraeus, building new railways across its annexed Tibet, and Mongolia, to meet the Trans-Siberian Railway well to the West of Vladivostok, and installing many businesses near the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. It bought the British steel-industry, and I strongly suspect its recent attempt to close the country's only remaining iron-making, hence new steel-making, plant was far more Chinese-strategic than locally economic.

Chian is also competing with the Russian Federation and the USA in sniffing around the Arctic between the Bering Strait and Iceland.

It is also doing something odd on an arid plain in the very far Western corner of Tibet. Google Earth satellite images reveal heavy developments of very remote towns reached by a modern road, directly below the mountain ridge that carries a narrow border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and a couple of other "istans". There is no obvious reason for towns here, no obvious mines, etc; the settlements seem partly self-reliant by their own farms, yet their only water supply is reservoirs of precious snow-melt of insecure future..... (The natural water-courses fade away in mid-plain.) My only suggestion is that of establishing future road links, likely to need long tunnels, with its neighbours; but the photographs so far at least show no signs of that.

@ArishMell Never underestimate the power of misinformation. Whatever is happening in those towns or with the infrastructure,keeping it secret means others need to expend resources guarding against the unknown. But of course with the Chinese, the planning could be 50 years out.. As for the One Belt, one road scheme. Of course it is always to the advantage of the Chinese. Whether its a railway in Africa leading from some valuable mineral mine to the coast. Or a military capable airport or or pacific seaport port built and maintained by chinese technicians for some Island nation. These are all built with "loan" funds with Chinese money, build by Chinese workers with mostly Chinese materials. The kicker being that is the local government defaults on the loan (which it probably will) ownership reverts to the Chinese, who can take it over legally and use it for its own purposes😷

@whowasthatmaskedman I agree entirely. Sometimes the best way to keep it secret is not to try too hard - as long as the real secrets are safe inside bland buildings etc.