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2012-09-10 Africa North

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Posted by lord garth 2012-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 China seems to be picking up all sorts of clients these days. Something tells me they won't be as forthcoming with the cash as Uncle Sugar was. Strictly quid pro quo for the Pekinese.

Posted by Spot 2012-09-10 07:45|| 2012-09-10 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Plus your first-born. If you're lucky.

Posted by mojo 2012-09-10 11:11|| 2012-09-10 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 A whore's transition? France, UK, flirt with Hitler, US, Soviet Union, US, China...
Is Saudi her current pimp?

Posted by Water Modem 2012-09-10 11:15|| 2012-09-10 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW maintenance on there huge inventory of US weapons might get iffy if they get too chummy...

Posted by Water Modem 2012-09-10 11:16|| 2012-09-10 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I understand the Saudis are very unhappy about the current state of affairs in Egypt.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-09-10 11:23|| 2012-09-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Does that mean we can stop paying them jizya?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-09-10 12:26|| 2012-09-10 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 one way of seeing this is that perhaps Morsi is impressed with the way the PRC has introduced more capitalism while covering up lots of croynism and also the pretense of communism

Posted by lord garth 2012-09-10 13:09|| 2012-09-10 13:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Is China looking at Egypt as a market for their cheaper manufactured goods? Because goodness knows, the only resource Egypt has a sellable excess these days is the body parts of the peasants and spare daughters. China is starting to feel the need for females for her excess sons....

Posted by trailing wife 2012-09-10 13:44|| 2012-09-10 13:44|| Front Page Top

#9 China is starting to feel the need for females for her excess sons

As whores & surrogate mothers?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-09-10 14:58|| 2012-09-10 14:58|| Front Page Top

#10 It seems to me that China is going for influence in the ME. I do not see Egypt as being a big mineral or oil resource for China. Maybe they are looking at the country as a stepping stone in a long range policy.

It is obvious that the US and China both need to get away from the ME as a source of oil, but China will not get into the joint venturing mood on alternate forms of energy with the US as she has her own agenda.

Too bad. But now is not the time, though it IS the time for us to buck up or ties with Pacific nations.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2012-09-10 15:05|| 2012-09-10 15:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Egypt is a mess that is only going to get messier. I don't know what the attraction for the Chinese would be. The Chinese may be establishing relations for the future when the price for whatever it is they want from Egypt will go down. In a few years Egypt is going to be a really bad shape. They will do deals for dirt cheap.

Posted by remoteman 2012-09-10 16:48|| 2012-09-10 16:48|| Front Page Top

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