Selling trucks and cars to Cuba? Where are the consumers?
Posted on 10/31/2017 7:29:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Guess who is hanging around with Raul Castro these days? The answer is China, as we see in this report from Pan Am Post:
Chen Xi, China’s Ambassador to Havana, signed agreements with Cuban Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmiera to expand economic relations between the two countries.
China pledged to make a US $1 million donation to help with Hurricane Irma recovery efforts.
Additionally, China will provide more than US $12 million in supplies, including generators, water pumps, purifiers, folding beds and other resources.
The agreement granted China a credit line for a project to remodel and modernize the island’s electric grid and solar power infrastructure, according to the state-run publication Cuban News Agency.
Though China surpassed Venezuela in terms of trade with Cuba last year — with total of US $361 million — the agreement means that China has officially become the island’s largest trading partner.
Chinese-made buses, trucks and cars already frequent Cuban roads.
So what is China looking for?
Selling trucks and cars to Cuba? Where are the consumers?
Buses? It may be that Cuba could use some new buses but that's not a very big sale either.
As Mexico, Canada, European countries, Brazil, and so many others have learned, doing business with Cuba is rather difficult because there is no market to speak of. This is why so much of the foreign investment is about building hotels.
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China must have a different motive. How about national security or military? How about Chinese warships or submarines visiting Cuba in the future? Military outpost for intelligence or Chinese jets?
Same thing the Chinese are doing in Africa.
They’re Communist allies.
Same thing the Soviets did.....................
Cuba has some interesting mineral deposits...
Look for port modernization projects and airfields.
Then comes docking the warships and later parking jets.
China plays the long game.
China’s there for land. China’s always there for land.
[China must have a different motive. How about national security or military? How about Chinese warships or submarines visiting Cuba in the future? Military outpost for intelligence or Chinese jets?]
They already own our ports, the Panama Canal, and are buying up American farm and properties, not to mention illegal immigration.
This.
We have our Ally in Taiwan, they have their future unsinkable aircraft carrier in Cuba.
I’d wager that’s how they see it.
Chicoms are late to the party. Had they gone all out for Cuba during Zero’s reign they’d have a seaport and airbase in Cuba by now.
They probably like the cigars. Maybe they’ll rebuild the casinos like you’d see them in “Godfather II”. And I bet Chinese toilet paper is better than no toilet paper.
World domination any way they can do it. Watch for missle launch sites....
Meanwhile, the NeoCon nutjobs continue to flush American blood and treasure down the sewer in the ME.
Building a missile base or maybe a submarine pen?
Hmm, don’t know what they would want in Cuba but I remember driving around in Kabul in ‘04 (you still could in a thin skin without a convoy) and noticing several Chinese restaurants scattered about. My local friend told me he had never seen a Chinese restaurant in Kabul until the Americans showed up. By that logic, they are in Cuba to keep tabs on us after we opened our Embassy.
Regards.
Bahamas:
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2017/apr/24/insight-bahamians-lose-out-chinese-win-big/
Azores:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/azores-withdrawal-gives-china-foothold-between-us-europe/
Panama Canal:
https://www.thetrumpet.com/13973-china-buys-panamas-largest-port
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