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2018-07-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

China's huge construction machines for the various Silk Roads.

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Posted by 3dc 2018-07-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Wouldn't shipping by boat be a lot cheaper? Could these roads be used for an invasion? It could also be a contingency plan.

Posted by gorb 2018-07-23 01:46|| 2018-07-23 01:46|| Front Page Top

#2 A return to the mobile ICBM days.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-23 02:30|| 2018-07-23 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 13x cheaper. But the US Navy rules the waves. Thus the need for this hugely expensive road system. It's all they've got.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-07-23 03:31|| 2018-07-23 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 And the elephants at the bottom of the page are for what?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-07-23 08:05|| 2018-07-23 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 And the elephants at the bottom of the page are for what?

It's a union job.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-23 09:59|| 2018-07-23 09:59|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-07-23 13:25|| 2018-07-23 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 In a lot of cases the countries China is 'investing in' are long-standing client states and the programs are meant to reinforce that status. Client as in 'Patron/Client' in Roman Republic Feudalism way back when. It's the word we have but everyone misuses.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-23 15:22|| 2018-07-23 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 'Patron/Client'

So kind of an 'escort program'?

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-23 16:59|| 2018-07-23 16:59|| Front Page Top

#9 No. More f___ing involved than that, and not the enjoyable kind.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-23 17:25|| 2018-07-23 17:25|| Front Page Top

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