Posted on 11/27/2021 10:24:41 AM PST by DFG
China has invested more than £685billion across 42 Commonwealth member states since 2005 as the Communist Party's extraordinary bid for global power continues unimpeded.
Foreign policy hawks have accused Britain of being 'completely asleep at the wheel for decades' as China expands its influence in the Caribbean and targets 'weak' Commonwealth states across the planet.
By ploughing huge sums of money into poor countries such as Barbados and Jamaica, Beijing hopes to saddle them with such enormous unpayable debts that they are forced to hand over the assets used as security. In some cases, this has included ports in crucial waterways which has allowed the Communist Party to challenge rival superpowers such as the Americans and the Indians.
Figures compiled by the American Enterprise Institute show that China has invested almost £500million into roads, homes, sewers and a hotel in Barbados, the Caribbean island which is distancing itself from British influence as it becomes a republic on Tuesday.
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Not its Billions. Ours, which our pols and CEO's blindly and greedily sent them based on a pie in the sky philosophy that they would become civilized.
Britain couldn’t even begin to rival China’s ability to invest in these countries. I am not sure in what sense it would be of benefit to the UK to try and spend billions to buy influence in the Carribean.
As in “You can’t BUY an election”, you can’t BUY the world.
All any country has to do is “nationalize” all Chinese assets.
BOOM! We TAKE IT ALL BACK! Thanks for all that money.
That's what EO 13848 and associated other EO's, and possibly PEADs does.
The Japanese discovered in the ‘80’s that you can’t take those assets home. China will lose all their money, unless they’re willing to come in with troops.
And the USA spent a trillion losing a war in Afghanistan .
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Why build an empire when you can just buy a used one on the secondary market? :)
of American money...
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