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Great! They'll be able to keep their empty fridges cool!
Trevor Noah’s latest pod discusses China. Apparently infrastructure for others is their new influence/weapon.
Trump killed our global soft power and China is stepping into that space.
China has been indebting a lot of Africa building stuff all over the place longer than Trump has been around, doesn't get talked about very much. I only knew because I watch a few full time travel vloggers.
Yeah China has been funding massive infrastructure expansion around the world for over a decade. All across Africa and Asia.
Well, the west has been indebting them without infrastructure build up, so...
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It's called the Belt and Road initiative iirc
Also when you travel in central or south America you see more and more infrastructure by the Chinese. Still a lot less than Africa, but China is taking investments into ressource rich countries seriously.
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New? They've been doing it for a very long time now. It's way cheaper to provide infrastructure to win good will than it is to fight them. And by getting them the infrastructure they can start producing goods for you. China has been outsourcing to Africa for a very long time now. Also just pillaging their resources.
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They have quite a lot of space to step in as Russia also did kill their soft power.
Everything seems to benefit China.
I mean you have a fascist greedy oligarchy on one side and a wannabe fascist greedy oligarchy on the other; it's not like China is facing a lot of competition in the realm of great power statesmanship.
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I will defo check it out today, cheers!
And on a similar note, here is an article from a couple of months back:
US-China head-to-head: Explained in 11 maps and charts
Before President Trump’s visit to Beijing, Al Jazeera compares the US and China on economics, military and resources.
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Another great example of why energy independence is a key part of national security. While I'm sure China is only too happy to receive the publicity and leverage, Cuba being resistant to blockades by a certain belligerent neighbor is immense.
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They beat the US in healthcare; if they beat them in power infrastructure too it would be hilarious
Well done China! 👍
It's an absolute disgrace the lack of help there is to Cuba from the rest of the world, with a humanitarian crisis caused by the US blockade, for absolutely no reason!! What USA is doing is a crime against humanity, And the whole world is just silent about it?! 🤮
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Thank you China.
Cuban Solar Crisis
It really sucks that the Canadian government isn't also helping Cuba. I am very disappointed in our governments extremely inadequate response to the US's illegal shakedown of Cuba.
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