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2018-04-01 Southeast Asia

Laos on a fast track to a China debt trap

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Posted by 3dc 2018-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Don't borrow money you can't pay back. Easy. It's not like they're invading with gunboats. You know, like the West did.

Posted by Lumpy Jones3477 2018-04-01 01:57|| 2018-04-01 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 plans for a US$6.7 billion high-speed railway that China is promoting

So that's how China plans to take over California.

Posted by Blinky Uneatch1846 2018-04-01 07:16|| 2018-04-01 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 It'll connect Laos to Bakersfield

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-01 10:43|| 2018-04-01 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Interested in China? Look at the Ancient Chinese books translated by Ralph D. Sawyer, fascinating insights! I first ran across his "The Seven Military Classics" years ago through a book club and was hooked...
Anyway, this is Chinese Diplomacy 1001 straight from their 'Lifan Yuan', the Office of Barbarian Control. Hook them on trinkets, corrupt their leaders, and turn them into puppets -- with millennia of practice the Chinese are very skilled at this.

Posted by magpie 2018-04-01 15:16|| 2018-04-01 15:16|| Front Page Top

#5 One line will run from Kunming, China, to Singapore. Another line will run from Assam, India, to the Vietnamese port of Danang. The area where the two lines will intersect, in northern Thailand, will presumably become a prosperous area.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2018-04-01 20:17|| 2018-04-01 20:17|| Front Page Top

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