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[–] 98 points 3 months ago (36 children)

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.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 months ago (21 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah China has been funding massive infrastructure expansion around the world for over a decade. All across Africa and Asia.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They have quite a lot of space to step in as Russia also did kill their soft power.

    Everything seems to benefit China.

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    [–] 62 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 53 points 3 months ago

    They beat the US in healthcare; if they beat them in power infrastructure too it would be hilarious

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Thank you China.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Cuban Solar Crisis

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    China the 🐐

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Whenever I see these installations, I can't help but think I'd rather see panels all over the place and much more decentralized.

    Kind of anywhere, but especially some place with the occasional flattening storm and to help reduce load and transmission costs when demand is high.

    I don't know though maybe it's better to clump kinda dangerous things.

    Either way, it's literally a place to go soak up some sun, may as well make hay while the sun is shining.

    I'd love to wander around a beachy place under some sort of solar installation to help with shade.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's because they'd be more expensive if decentralized; all of the extra equipment required to transform the output, step down voltage and such would need to be replaced with thousands (millions?) of smaller units that do the same thing at an individual home/building level, requiring a larger trained labour force to install/maintain/replace them.

    Personally, I think that would be rad, but most people don't care to learn enough to safely be power engineers and if you're in a 2 year backlog to get your home solar sorted out after a hurricane, you'd probably wonder why they didn't do it this way instead.

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