Nicaragua Canal Project - Not A Joke

[Jacob]

There you have it. It's serious.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23058301

I guess we'll see by 2014.

[Siege]

Blah blah blah.
Another target is south America.

[alfred russel]

Meanwhile, the Chinese economy is not doing so well.

[CountDeMoney]

The Nicaraguans will get tired of the bullshit involved in doing business with the Chinese, just like Africa and the rest of the Latin American countries, long before it's finished.

[CountDeMoney]

The 40 year old - who is the only public face of the project - offered little new information about himself, saying only that he came from an ordinary family in Beijing and that he had studied traditional Chinese medicine before becoming a businessman.

Great, you burn through all your big cats in your country, so you have to go after what's left of the Jaguars and Ocelots in this hemisphere for better erections and flu remedies.  Fucking yellow fucks.

[PRC]

The Nicaraguans will get tired of the bullshit involved in doing business with the Chinese, just like Africa and the rest of the Latin American countries, long before it's finished.

Have the Latin American and African countries indeed grown tired of doing business with the Chinese?

[sbr]

Forget it.  He's rolling.

[CountDeMoney]

The Nicaraguans will get tired of the bullshit involved in doing business with the Chinese, just like Africa and the rest of the Latin American countries, long before it's finished.

Have the Latin American and African countries indeed grown tired of doing business with the Chinese?

New government officials and trade organizations have been barking for some time over the sweetheart deals the Chinese have received, particularly in Africa, and have figured out it's not a two-way street.  Haven't you been listening?

[OttoVonBismarck]

China is building a little developing world "Empire of Influence." Russia, recognizing it can't go the route of the Soviets and try direct "beefy" opposition instead is siding with all the tinpot dictatorships of the world and making them stronger so that anything we want to do comes at ever-increasing costs I actually view the Chinese as being less sinister, I think they just want to keep getting fatter and richer and have no interest in global domination. The Russians on the other hand appear to be building a geopolitical network of influence designed to just make shit really bad for us at every turn. I'm not even sure to what end, maybe some day Putin dreams of putting the Russian thumb more firmly back on previous Soviet Republicans and believes a geopolitically weakened United States is necessary for that.

[CountDeMoney]

China's being less sinister, yes, and ten years ago they were a relatively refreshing alternative to the US and all its Wilsonian caveats when it comes to doing business with them--no bullshit over human rights, etc.--so the Chinese have been a very transactional no-frills client, but even that can wear thin on governments when they realize they're being taken to the cleaners.

[Admiral Yi]

The only people who could remotely claim to have been taken to the cleaners by China are foreign companies that operate in China and African farmers displaced by Chinese farmers.  No exporter of raw materials to China has ever raised the slightest objection, to my knowledge.

[CountDeMoney]

My sources in the IWW say otherwise. :werkers:

[Eddie Teach]

Chinese factory workers are just happy not to be Chinese peasants.

[Razgovory]

Blah blah blah.
Another target is south America.

Well now we know what kind of technology you're selling to the Chinese.