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| How China has poured billions into the Caribbean by investing in ports, roads and a five-star resort in a soft power grab – as Beijing is blamed for Barbados's calls to drop the Queen as Head of State |
| 2020-09-24 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #13 The Japanese invested a lot of money in Hawaii before Pearl Harbour, for all the good it did them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-24 21:06 |
| #12 Barbados is a blackhole? Seemed pretty nice to me. Good people, fine rum, excellent tourist destination. |
| Posted by: Skunky Phinemp1649 2020-09-24 19:58 |
| #11 Anything wrong with the Chinese shoveling their money into blackholes of economic development? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-09-24 18:50 |
| #10 China is buying votes in international agencies on the cheap. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-09-24 14:02 |
| #9 Just follow Landbridge Group acquisitions. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-09-24 12:42 |
| #8 They already own Margarita Island Port at the east end on the Panama Canal. Happened in 2016, so..... |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-09-24 12:40 |
| #7 #6 Our elites don't even want it to apply to our own sovereign territory. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-09-24 12:28 |
| #6 Anyone remember the Monroe doctrine? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-09-24 12:07 |
| #5 that five star resort of the PRC is almost certainly a five star money loser this year as tourism is barely functioning at all |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-09-24 10:29 |
| #4 Gosh, if only we could counter such a move by investing our own - nah, would never work. Let's give Lockheed Martin another $100 billion instead! |
| Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 2020-09-24 06:30 |
| #3 And then they unleashed Covid 19, and killed the tourist industry. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-24 03:44 |
| #2 it might sting for a while but the sooner we cut ALL ties to the Chi Comms cant be soon enough |
| Posted by: 746 2020-09-24 01:07 |
| #1 This is not a trivial matter for anyone familiar with history of the U-Boat war. Battle of the Caribbean |
| Posted by: charger 2020-09-24 00:34 |