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2020-09-24 Caribbean-Latin America
How China has poured billions into the Caribbean by investing in ports, roads and a five-star resort in a soft power grab – as Beijing is blamed for Barbados's calls to drop the Queen as Head of State
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top
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#1 This is not a trivial matter for anyone familiar with history of the U-Boat war.

Battle of the Caribbean
Posted by charger 2020-09-24 00:34||   2020-09-24 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 it might sting for a while but the sooner we cut ALL ties to the Chi Comms cant be soon enough
Posted by 746 2020-09-24 01:07||   2020-09-24 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 And then they unleashed Covid 19, and killed the tourist industry.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-24 03:44||   2020-09-24 03:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Gosh, if only we could counter such a move by investing our own - nah, would never work. Let's give Lockheed Martin another $100 billion instead!
Posted by Muggsy Hapsburg5230 2020-09-24 06:30||   2020-09-24 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 that five star resort of the PRC is almost certainly a five star money loser this year as tourism is barely functioning at all
Posted by lord garth 2020-09-24 10:29||   2020-09-24 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone remember the Monroe doctrine?
Posted by AlanC 2020-09-24 12:07||   2020-09-24 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 Our elites don't even want it to apply to our own sovereign territory.
Posted by charger 2020-09-24 12:28||   2020-09-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 They already own Margarita Island Port at the east end on the Panama Canal.

Happened in 2016, so.....
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-09-24 12:40||   2020-09-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Just follow Landbridge Group acquisitions.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-09-24 12:42||   2020-09-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 China is buying votes in international agencies on the cheap.
Posted by Iblis 2020-09-24 14:02||   2020-09-24 14:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Anything wrong with the Chinese shoveling their money into blackholes of economic development?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-24 18:50||   2020-09-24 18:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Barbados is a blackhole? Seemed pretty nice to me. Good people, fine rum, excellent tourist destination.
Posted by Skunky Phinemp1649 2020-09-24 19:58||   2020-09-24 19:58|| Front Page Top

#13 The Japanese invested a lot of money in Hawaii before Pearl Harbour, for all the good it did them.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-24 21:06||   2020-09-24 21:06|| Front Page Top

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