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The best thing about China is that they help developing countries without strings attached, unlike Western nations
China gets the total control of this canal for 1116 years. THAT IS A BIG STRING ATTACHED!
China is building the thing from scratch and paying for everything. That is not a string attached.
Strings attached is what the US does, which is offer help but the country has to adopt a set of policies that in the long run benefits the US more than those countries. The US even conditions the help on the basis of who governs what country, as if that's anyone's business other than the people that live in those countries.
That's why African countries are preferring Chinese investments over Western ones. The Chinese simply do business, they don't stick their noses in local political/cultural affairs.
Can you please post a link to the actual article and not just the webpage for the news agency. I couldn't find any article and finally just looked at other sites.
I thought this too when I read about their businesses in African countries and HOW they are
But getting back to the quote, if people pay attention and read, they will see that the Chinese ARE taking over in an extremely subtle level.
I suspect that NONE of these people, who praise China, would want to live in a Chinese controlled world.
Here is the rub. A gov't agency in the USA builds a shoddy building, it collapses, and people are killed. Compensation will be paid, after protests.
Try that in China a jail cell is waiting for you.
As bad as the West might be in 2015 China is WORSE. When US companies invest jobs are created for locals , and the government can even demand that these local jobs include higher level slots.
When the Chinese build, even the people bringing water for the laborers WILL BE CHINESE.
Now how is a country with high unemployment helped? Where are the local benefits?
Read thearticle. This canal will be bigger and handle ships bigger than Panama can handle.
No one has even mentioned as to what will happen to fresh water for both Nic and Costa Rica. They share the same aquifer and real danger of salt water destroying it.
Destroying local environments is of no concern to China, or to Chinese companies. No pressure can be exerted on them, as will be the case for North American and European entities.
When the Chinese arrive, they bribe the local government officials, and then are allowed to do what ever they want.
Yes of course they do, so Sudan can engage in whole sale massacre and rape of people in Darfur and China supports them.
Some governments need strings attached.
No different than the U.S. supporting Pinochet in Chile. Let's not be naive both China and the big powers of each time have done their share of atrocities.
Destroying local environments is of no concern to China, or to Chinese companies. No pressure can be exerted on them, as will be the case for North American and European entities.
When the Chinese arrive, they bribe the local government officials, and then are allowed to do what ever they want.
And in the case of Nicaraguan canal the government has already moved entire villages. Have you seen the article about the environmental effects on the local water bodies?
Can you please post a link to the actual article and not just the webpage for the news agency. I couldn't find any article and finally just looked at other sites.
Mattks: what versatile said is true, I go into another forum (Spanish speaking forum) and I regularly enter the Nicaraguan room and they have discussed everything he said, too bad you dont speak Spanish otherwise, I would have given you the address for that forum and the Nicaraguan room.
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