Maybe just by taking their money and assistance and never delivering back the agreed upon return would be my guess...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Maybe just by taking their money and assistance and never delivering back the agreed upon return would be my guess...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Right?? If you think the Japanese of WW2 were a seriously insane bunch to try and fight, can you imagine what the African Warlords of today would be like in an all out assault? I would not be signing up for that fight...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm sure that will go very well for them against a country that gives zero fucks about human rightsThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What’s China gonna do? Nuke them?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You are also assuming South American and African governments give half a shit about their citizens.
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What's China going to do to Chad? Or South Sudan? Or Gabon?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Take their natural resources as payment and use the infrastructure as their own, kind of like they are doing currently. They learned from the rest of the world that the trick isn't too expect money back, it's to know that they will default and then take everything else as payment. Then when there are attacks they can shrug and say "we didn't colonize them, we're just using the stuff we paid for, and taking some fish to make up for the interest." Not like China cares about who they lose there, it's all slave labor anywaysThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You guys are looking at 2 sides that both give no shits about human lives, and assuming the one with all the resources is going to lose, and I cannot understand why
“Take”
Cause China is going to March an army into Nigeria if they pull a take backsies
lol
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The "take as payment" part is the hard part.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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would you stop it.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I mean I’m not personally going to do anything about it lol
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No, I mean posting my ideas 30 seconds before I do.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
My bad.
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And yet billions of dollars of resources flow from Africa to China every year, and countries that complain about it find that their political rivals suddenly have a shitload of ammunition "magically"
But sure sure, any day now those mean old Africans will out maneuver the hapless Chinese
Ya, I mean, when has a proxy war every not gone to plan in Africa?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
For a long time it went super well, but roughly about the time that the Western world got cold feet about being accused of crimes against humanity. We'll wait to see when that applies to China I guess
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Whatever it is, it's probably gonna come out of Djibouti
I'm sure that China has got African colonization all figured out. Never been tried before.
And the Americans can get Afghanistan sorted out, unlike all of the other attempts in the last 2000 years.
One side has all the financial leverage, a larger standing army and bigger guns.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Africa doesn’t have to win for China to lose.
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Like the 'nam? Or maybe every army in history versus Afghanistan? Both the Soviets and the USA have not done well there...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
While it's easy to tie Africa to shit ass dictator countries, Chinese money is stabilizing some other that even German and Brazilian money are following in:
https://www.worldfinance.com/markets...mies-in-africa
In the end, while we looked to China as our place to have cheap shit made 20 years ago, China is looking to Africa to do the same for them.
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