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2022-04-16 China-Japan-Koreas

China Blames America for Socialist Sri Lanka's Belt and Road Debt Disaster

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
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#1 Now it will get stupid Indian leaders to help Srilanka by playing to the populist hindu egos. Watch as China begins to hail India in the media, and Indian media houses sing of how China adores India for being 'brave and noble'. They may even jointly produce some stupid mythological flick for the Indian rube.

Idiots in New Delhi will sign off on some aid package for the srilankans hoping to please the millions of tamils back home and they'll sell it as 'India has become a great saviour, a big brother to nations!' while the CCP slap their knees laughing.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 09:21|| 2022-04-16 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 That whole dynamic blew right past me. I've got to break down and finally buy a copy of "South Asia For Dummies".

Posted by Matt 2022-04-16 09:45|| 2022-04-16 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 😛

I merely meant to say the Chinese will play the Indian leadership using typical Indian hubris and aspirations of grandeur. And the leadership will find a way to sell a $ billion aid package for the Srilankans, to clueless taxpayers.

Now the srilankan population consists of Tamils in great number. [A linguistic group] Tamil Nadu in India is the ridiculously Tamil state full of regional minded obstinate fools, barring a few evolved communities. These constantly demand aid and security and help and sops for their cousins in the ocean. [I'm not doing a very good job here am I?]
Basically srilanka is a thankless ingrate whom we protected, helped feed itself, helped grow into something remotely investable. And then they changed loyalties for the Chinese plastic magic wand. Sold out for a few blōwjobs and scholarships in America for their children. We didn't really need a sovereign buffer state in the Indian Ocean. Not one this useless anyway.

I would advise new Delhi to regime change it and 'help' local democracy find a stooge leader who would never entertain China's overtures again. And plant our Navy all across its ports.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 11:04|| 2022-04-16 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 This would never have happened in Ceylon ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2022-04-16 11:14|| 2022-04-16 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 We have already sunk $5 billion in this place, just because New Delhi keeps hoping this is the way to make loyal friends. And we're going to send them $2 b more. Then China will regime change them and pick a stooge from the primary political dynasties there.

My solution would be to start a civil war. Then finish it for them. And plant our own stooge from a non-dynastic party. Somebody staunchly budhist right-wing or something.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 11:19|| 2022-04-16 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 This would never have happened in Ceylon ;-)

Hmmm... quite true.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 11:20|| 2022-04-16 11:20|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Rootin' for (a Hindu) Putin

Posted by Snugum Grundy8528 2022-04-16 11:39|| 2022-04-16 11:39|| Front Page Top

#8 "South Asia For Dummies"

You should definitely write this, Dron. You could be the subcontinental P.J. O'Rourke!

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-16 13:20|| 2022-04-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Will seriously give it a thought. 😁

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 13:48|| 2022-04-16 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Maps. Lots of maps.

Posted by Matt 2022-04-16 13:58|| 2022-04-16 13:58|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ with circles and arrows

Posted by SteveS 2022-04-16 14:12|| 2022-04-16 14:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Why not give Sri Lanka to the Chinese and be done with it?

Posted by jpal 2022-04-16 14:16|| 2022-04-16 14:16|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ China doesn't want it. They would rather just own the presidents and legislatures, consolidate assets not the liabilities. Liabilities are for idiots like us and you. As long as it remains a 'democratic' thingy, its upkeep is someone else's problem. China can park its navy there, it can enslave the local population unseen, it can make the rulers run it into the ground unheard. And some retard, some absolute shit for brains moron will be there to bail it out and prop it up again.

This is their MO in Pak, in African countries and now in Nepal too.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 14:26|| 2022-04-16 14:26|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Nepal too? Really hate to hear that.

Posted by jpal 2022-04-16 14:50|| 2022-04-16 14:50|| Front Page Top

#15 IIRC, Nepal is one of the only countries in the world that has never been conquered. At least so far.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-04-16 15:26|| 2022-04-16 15:26|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ They're trying. They poured millions into KP Oli's pockets and his establishment. We helped replace it with a... better pedigree of leadership. India and the US have gone to great lengths to ensure this total commie-fication of Nepal doesn't take place. It was one of the things we did well to team up on.

This is in fact one of the ops Washington got right. Of course it was begun in DJT's term. Maybe he took Indian advice, I don't know. By 2018, DC realised Nepal was going the wrong way and regime change was not possible using Pakistain here. The Millenium Challenge Corporation under USAID infused the local democratic foundations with funds and enabled the Nepali Congress to compete in free and fair elections. We wanted the same thing and it took elbow grease and... some unmarked graves [because money is never enough...sigh]. But the regime was changed back to a more pro-Nepal than pro-China government.

But they're still trying. Nepal is two different societies. One are the Neowari upper castes, Gorkhali, Chetri etc. You know some of them as Gorkhas. The other are madhesis, a pejorative for essentially people who don't belong. The Gorkha and Chhetri are fiercely traditional Hindu-buddhist. The madhesis are... diverse. And that's where the UFWD finds its worker bees. Building Chinese schools, promising careers in mainland China, creating silent plodders against the nationalist core. Planting Chinese overseers in Nepal.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 15:40|| 2022-04-16 15:40|| Front Page Top

#17 Pakistain is one entity that needs a China controlled Nepal. Because it offers a great haven and launch pads for cross border jihadis. Training camps and madrassas established under the communist government were jointly destroyed but keep springing up whenever a humanist islamic foundation is allowed entry. China stays out of this game for now. If they touch a moslem they wash their hands twice.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-16 15:45|| 2022-04-16 15:45|| Front Page Top

#18 See, Dron, if you write the book as Steve suggests, you'll have complete control over the information flow to naive Americans such as myself. On the maps you could label Pakistain "Land of Tiny Testicles" and none of us would know any different.

Posted by Matt 2022-04-16 16:42|| 2022-04-16 16:42|| Front Page Top

#19 All I need to know about India.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-16 16:55|| 2022-04-16 16:55|| Front Page Top

#20 can you make a coloring book version, for us less astute.

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