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2025-02-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by DarthVader 2025-02-03 00:18|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Panama pledges to end key canal deal with China, work with US after Rubio visit

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-03 01:27|| 2025-02-03 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet another 'Banana Republic' seeing the writing on the wall and kissing the ring!

Posted by Angimp Squank3949 2025-02-03 03:44|| 2025-02-03 03:44|| Front Page Top

#3 What's better: to be a client of China, or a client of USA.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-03 04:14|| 2025-02-03 04:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Someone has read The Prince -

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

So much for decades of trying to buy 'love'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-03 07:26|| 2025-02-03 07:26|| Front Page Top

#5 can't find anything about any Panamanian infrastructure being funded by the Road and Belt Initiative

maybe there are some service roads within the port areas but that's a guess

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-03 10:32|| 2025-02-03 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/china-behind-super-highway-that-targets-us-with-mass-migration-economic-warfare/

Posted by jefe101 2025-02-03 10:40|| 2025-02-03 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 A memorandum of understanding isn't legally binding, so nothing has happened (yet).

Posted by European Conservative 2025-02-03 11:04|| 2025-02-03 11:04|| Front Page Top

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