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| Will Egypt and China become BFFs? |
| 2012-09-10 |
| As Morsi recalibrates Egypt's foreign policy -- seeking "balance," his advisers have said, and reaching out to US foes -- he is attempting to relieve Egypt's crippled economy, which has failed to rebound from its post-uprising slump. China is now in a unique position to usurp the United States in the role of Egypt's benefactor. "Our relations with China will increase, because our new government has some doubts about the West," said Mohamed Kadry Said, military analyst at the Cairo-based Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #11 Egypt is a mess that is only going to get messier. I don't know what the attraction for the Chinese would be. The Chinese may be establishing relations for the future when the price for whatever it is they want from Egypt will go down. In a few years Egypt is going to be a really bad shape. They will do deals for dirt cheap. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2012-09-10 16:48 |
| #10 It seems to me that China is going for influence in the ME. I do not see Egypt as being a big mineral or oil resource for China. Maybe they are looking at the country as a stepping stone in a long range policy. It is obvious that the US and China both need to get away from the ME as a source of oil, but China will not get into the joint venturing mood on alternate forms of energy with the US as she has her own agenda. Too bad. But now is not the time, though it IS the time for us to buck up or ties with Pacific nations. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-09-10 15:05 |
| #9 China is starting to feel the need for females for her excess sons As whores & surrogate mothers? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-09-10 14:58 |
| #8 Is China looking at Egypt as a market for their cheaper manufactured goods? Because goodness knows, the only resource Egypt has a sellable excess these days is the body parts of the peasants and spare daughters. China is starting to feel the need for females for her excess sons.... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-09-10 13:44 |
| #7 one way of seeing this is that perhaps Morsi is impressed with the way the PRC has introduced more capitalism while covering up lots of croynism and also the pretense of communism |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-09-10 13:09 |
| #6 Does that mean we can stop paying them jizya? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-09-10 12:26 |
| #5 I understand the Saudis are very unhappy about the current state of affairs in Egypt. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-09-10 11:23 |
| #4 BTW maintenance on there huge inventory of US weapons might get iffy if they get too chummy... |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-09-10 11:16 |
| #3 A whore's transition? France, UK, flirt with Hitler, US, Soviet Union, US, China... Is Saudi her current pimp? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-09-10 11:15 |
| #2 Plus your first-born. If you're lucky. |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-09-10 11:11 |
| #1 China seems to be picking up all sorts of clients these days. Something tells me they won't be as forthcoming with the cash as Uncle Sugar was. Strictly quid pro quo for the Pekinese. |
| Posted by: Spot 2012-09-10 07:45 |