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G7 Counter to China’s BRI: Too Little, Too Late
Smattering of projects pales in the face of Beijing’s vast infrastructure investment
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G7 Counter to China’s BRI: Too Little, Too Late
Smattering of projects pales in the face of Beijing’s vast infrastructure investment
Chinese BRI is a business product targeting no one , this G7I is a political product to counter China, I like to see where would they spend this money .Well, the USD 600 billion is a financial product, not aid or free money.
It's like Apple is starting selling iPhones in third-world countries.
For many countries, it's great because we have more financial product varieties in the market.
We can choose the cheapest and easiest loan.
But of course this day, political news is strong.
It's like choosing between Ford and Toyota, just because Ford is Made in the USA, it has more news with a positive attitude, but it doesn't mean Toyota is bad.
As a consumer, we should be smart.
Except it’s not competition. Just making a bus land in a US city costs tens of millions and takes over a decade. And they are supposed to build world class infrastructure at a comparable cost and time schedule as China?Competition in a healthy way, at least.
Most of it actually landed in the pockets of American weapons manufacturers and contractors. Foreign aid is basically a money laundering scheme concocted by the MIC to pay itself inflated salaries.A large proportion of Western aid to 3rd world actually landed into their own consultant pockets. If not the equipment and physical hardware may be marked up 100%. This aid is not free per se but in form of loan.
One day, white man will raise the interest rate creating a default payment. Then 3rd world will be asked to sell their price jewels in addition of putting them into exorbitant interest.
IMF step in and ask for liberalization of this and that especially financial sector.
Then white man come in further snap up everything on fire sale price.
This is what debt trap is all about.