Posted on 01/13/2019 10:11:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Cheap to fund “revolutionaries”.
What the Chinese are doing in Tahiti is a classic example of their soft money penetration and future control of small, greedy, bride taking countries and their leaders.
More accurately, the Chinese:
1) Make big loans with national assets as collateral
2) The money gets stolen by the politicians
3) The assets get foreclosed and seized by the Chinese.
4) The politicians retire to live off their stolen funds.
Trump is the only world leader who would dare acknowledge this. All the globalists are PC whores getting screwed from all angles while pretending to be superior to the “dumb” Trump [Art of the Deal].
On August 21, 2018:
Malaysia Cancels Two Big China Projects, Fearing They Will Bankrupt Country.
....Mahathir’s decision is a big blow for China, said Marina Rudyak, who studies Chinese foreign aid at Heidelberg University. “Xi Jinping frames BRI as China’s contribution in a ‘new era’ where China is a responsible global player,” she wrote in an email. “This means the canceled projects signify a failure of China’s economic diplomacy.”
With its Belt and Road Initiative, China thought it could outperform Western projects “while at the same time helping Chinese companies to internationalize,” Rudyak said. “Turns out, there is a reason for all those bulky international standards China had frequently portrayed as obsolete and obstructing development.”
The World Bank, which funds infrastructure projects in many developing countries, has said the Belt and Road Initiative comes with potential benefits and risks. In a blog post this spring, a senior World Bank economist said successful BRI projects could improve infrastructure and commerce in countries that have had difficulty integrating into the world economy.
But the economist, Michele Ruta, added that for some countries, “the financing required for BRI projects may expand debt to unsustainable levels.” Big infrastructure projects can also carry “environmental, social, and corruption risks,” he said, especially “in countries involved in the BRI, which tend to have relatively weak governance.”
Ms. Rudyak is dumb or a willing accomplice. China is not doing these projects for better “economic diplomacy” on the world stage. Buying off third world politicians with debt and big infrastructure projects is a tool they use all the time, think Mombosa, Kenya, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and Pakistan for example.
Eight countries in danger of falling into China’s ‘Debt Trap’.
This is a serious problem. China (state capitalism) obviously had a strategy, but we were too dumb to notice it. Nixon in China was a fool and subsequent presidents have also given away the store.
I think Russia realizes this too. I’m not sure about the EU. And then there’s that third force, Islam, which is trying to take over all of us.
What makes this story comical is that China is doing the same thing the U.S. has been doing for years.
Offhand, I can’t thinkof any examples
The canal was an upfront deal- no ‘debt-trap’ trickery.
Seems there should be plenty of historical cases but I can’t think of one.
Panama Canal omitted as is Long Beach, Ca
“Nixon in China was a fool and subsequent presidents have also given away the store.”
I beg to differ on former President Nixon.
I believe his stated intentions of bringing Red China out of the previous century was true and accurate.
I don’t think RMN could have foreseen the globalist corporation and politicians backstabbing the United States like they ended up doing. Nor could anyone have imagined we would give away the store, as you put it, like we ended up doing.
This is my conclusion from notes I’ve seen from the Nixon archives. But clearly I do not know everything there is to know about the Nixon presidency.
The real culprit, if there was one, was Henry Kissinger. He was with President Nixon on this every step of the way. Personally, I think Kissinger had a different agenda all along.
I would say that the early 1990’s began making China what it is today, and making the United States what it is today as well (although we are in the process of changing that).
The one's that don't have children, they'll just kill or let them die from neglect.
If you can’t pick it up and run with it you don’t really own it.
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This is not knew at all.
The Clinton/Gore campaign received millions of dollars from China, (some estimates were significantly higher than $35 million), which funneled money through thousands of Chinese citizens in the US, including many students, “businessmen”, and even tourist.
One of the myriad kickbacks China ultimately received from President Clinton, was the contract for “Administrative Control” of the Panama Canal, through a PLA front company called “Huchinson Wampoa”.
This was part of a large body of high crimes committed, of which real investigations were denied, and government invedtigations silenced. Other Clinton/Chinese kickbacks included the turnover of US nuclear weapons secrets, and both ICBM and satellite technology. Clinton also temporarely gave PLA Navy, docking and fueling permission in San Fransisco, from which the Chinese offloaded thousands of Chinese AK-47’s, which were reportedly “lost”. Clinton also successfully demanded China be given a permanent seat on the UN Security Counsel.
There was a mock Senate investigation into “Chinagate”, which initially caused thousands of guilty Chinese citizens to leave the country, but we now know, key Senators like Feinstein, McConnell, and others, were receiving many tens of millions of dollars from their contacts in the Chinese government.
The Chinese/Clinton influence and criminal activity was only possibly matched by his turnover of weapons tech to the Russians, and the “no strings/conditions attached effort to forgive nearly $4.4 Trillion dollars of accumulated Soviet debt.
These things did happen, the players are largely the same as today as they were then, and they are again, truly damaging or nearly ending our free nation as we knew it, while they literally sell us out and get rich doing it!
The $4.4 Trillion dollars Russia owed, which was wiped out between 1993-1997, was to the combined western banking system, which included central banks, the IMF, and the World Bank. However, the greatest influence was the Federal Reserve, with rhe Clinton Administration in the middle of all of it.
Many officials protested the lack of, or “no stipulations” policy goals of the Clinton effort.
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>Mary Fanning has been screaming on FB about the sale of American seaports for as long as I have friended her .... about a year.
Go look.<
Thanks for the heads up. I will. And in return let me give you one.
Who is Mitch McConnell’s wife?
Her name is Elaine Chao. She was born in China to a family that is very big indeed in ocean shipping.
Mrs. McConnell is also a power in the USA. She has been head of the American Merchant Marine government body for decades.
So, a native of China is helping shape—some would say, Squash, this country’e merchant marine.
But fear not. If our merchant marine can’t do our shipping, China will gladly take that burden unto themselves.
Another very serious millstone around the merchant marine’s neck is the Seafarers Union. But that’s another thread.
For now, let’s contemplate Mrs. Mitch Mcconnell’s influence on our merchant marine. It certainly demands our attention.
>Its not like they didn’t tell us what they intended to do, to quote the late Admiral Tom Moorer. Read Unrestricted Warfare.<
I have. And I urge all FReepers that possibly can to follow your advice and read it for yourselves.
Couldn't help it - heard Tennessee Ernie Ford singing "....I owe my soul to the company store...."
I didn’t know Chao was still in place ... thanks.
Interesting observations! Certainly true about Kissinger, and I’d forgotten his role in the whole thing.
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