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2021-08-31 Caribbean-Latin America
Caribbean Sea is Mandarin for ‘Chinese Lake’
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Posted by Bobby 2021-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top
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#1 Oh, I forgot. China is offering free college education, in China, to residents of Antigua. The tour guide said her brother is there.

Where do they get all the money?
Posted by Bobby 2021-08-31 00:48||   2021-08-31 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 
Where do they get all the money?

Fiat Currencies use printing presses, China is no different.
Posted by Snusose Mussolini3286 2021-08-31 01:08||   2021-08-31 01:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, I forgot. China is offering free college education, in China, to residents of Antigua. The tour guide said her brother is there.

Where do they get all the money?

It's not that much money. They don't have teachers' protection rackets masquerading as unions there. No racial quotas for incompetents, either.

Re the projects - the Chinese are hoping to do the same thing that car dealerships do to make a profit - they get you with the fine print, which the leader who signs it agrees to because of a fat deposit in his new Panamanian bank account. His successor can similarly be paid off to abide by the agreement's terms - after all, it's only taxpayer money at stake, not his newly established secret bank account.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-08-31 03:24||   2021-08-31 03:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Monroe doctrine joined biological genders perception?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-31 03:35||   2021-08-31 03:35|| Front Page Top

#5 You know all the chicanery European firms used to get up to in terms of paying off local nabobs in these locales? Chinese companies are doing this with CCP connivance. With China becoming a significant market for some of these countries, Beijing has the ability to tank their economies in the short term, thereby making local rulers wary of incurring its displeasure, lest their domestic rivals take advantage of temporary economic discontent to win office in their place.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-08-31 03:35||   2021-08-31 03:35|| Front Page Top

#6 If China wants to waste their money on ungrateful jerks, let them. They'll soon find out they get no thanks, and it'll save our money.

The joke with the Chinese educating all these third worlders is, the plan is that they go back to their countries and are suceptible to Chinese influence the rest of their lives. But joke's on the Chinese: once they graduate with their bachelor's degrees, they qualify to work in China. Many stay on, having no plans to go back to the hellhole they came from. Even China looks better to them.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-08-31 04:03||   2021-08-31 04:03|| Front Page Top

#7 The joke with the Chinese educating all these third worlders is, the plan is that they go back to their countries and are suceptible to Chinese influence the rest of their lives. But joke's on the Chinese: once they graduate with their bachelor's degrees, they qualify to work in China. Many stay on, having no plans to go back to the hellhole they came from. Even China looks better to them.

That's not a bad deal for the Chinese - they get a thin slice of foreign cognitive elites. Nothing wrong with fresh blood.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2021-08-31 04:17||   2021-08-31 04:17|| Front Page Top

#8 That's not a bad deal for the Chinese - they get a thin slice of foreign cognitive elites. Nothing wrong with fresh blood.

Aren't Chinese xenophobic like the sea is deep?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-31 05:09||   2021-08-31 05:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, the Chinese will NOT welcome Caribbean people as permanent residents. I bet part of the education deal is "go home when you're finished".
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-31 08:01||   2021-08-31 08:01|| Front Page Top

#10 The Chinese finished a new airport there a few years ago

"The American government accused Grenada of constructing facilities to aid a Soviet-Cuban military buildup in the Caribbean based on the 9,000-foot (2,700 m) runway which could accommodate the largest Soviet aircraft, such as the An-12, An-22, and the An-124."
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-31 09:33||   2021-08-31 09:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Americans have squandered far too much taxpayer money on Third World, so-called "developing" countries that never seem to actually get developed. Now the Chinese think they have something to gain from squandering their own money.

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-31 13:32||   2021-08-31 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Foreign cognitive elites? China has 1.3 billion people. They have enough. They're full. They don't need more people. They can educate their own people just fine.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-08-31 14:27||   2021-08-31 14:27|| Front Page Top

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