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What the World’s Emptiest International Airport Says About China’s Influence

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Post by ars »

tuna-piano wrote: post #9

I assume another close contender is the Nay Pyi Taw airport in Myanmar. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvqis0htxH/?taken-at=277450644 https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/277450644/naypyi... The city was built as a showcase capital for Myanmar's military government, and has crazy sights like a 20 lane highway (with almost no cars): https://www.go-myanmar.com/sites/go-myanmar.com/files/upload... More pictures: ht…

> the female side of the seat belt buckle

The what? Are rides segregated or is there some kind of female buckle I have not heard of?

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Post by tradersam »

hyperbovine wrote: post #8
themgt wrote: post #7

As the United States beats a haphazard retreat from the world — nixing trade agreements, eschewing diplomacy, antagonizing allies — China marches on with its unabashedly ambitious global-expansion program known as One Belt, One Road. This constant MSM need to connect everything on earth back to Trump is getting so fucking tedious. Construction of the airport this article concerns was finished (edit: begun) in 2009. I…

Nothing in your post contradicts the thesis of that sentence.

Yeah, it sounds like someone's just touchy about Trump.

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Post by virtuabhi »

"Over all, around 90 percent of the country’s revenues goes to servicing debt. Even a new president who took office in 2015 on a promise to curb Chinese influence succumbed to financial reality."

90% of Sri Lanka's revenues goes to servicing Chinese debt? I find this hard to believe. Any references?

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Post by lovich »

themgt wrote: post #7

As the United States beats a haphazard retreat from the world — nixing trade agreements, eschewing diplomacy, antagonizing allies — China marches on with its unabashedly ambitious global-expansion program known as One Belt, One Road. This constant MSM need to connect everything on earth back to Trump is getting so fucking tedious. Construction of the airport this article concerns was finished (edit: begun) in 2009. I…

The description of America's retreat from the world has been happening for the last few administration's so I don't know if they are referencing Trump directly.

The US liked to throw it's weight around and act like an asshole at times and China is now trying to provide another option to get nation's on their side

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Post by crishoj »

virtuabhi wrote: post #13

"Over all, around 90 percent of the country’s revenues goes to servicing debt. Even a new president who took office in 2015 on a promise to curb Chinese influence succumbed to financial reality." 90% of Sri Lanka's revenues goes to servicing Chinese debt? I find this hard to believe. Any references?

The quote doesn’t imply that all the debt is Chinese.

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Post by Dravidian »

China's investment in Pakistan, Srilanka, Myanmar is clearly aimed to impose strategic advantage over India.

Especially in Srilanka, apart from economic activities; they funded & trained Srilankan army to conduct one of the worst genocide on their ethnic tamil population in 4th elam war. Sadly neither the international community nor the Indian government did nothing to prevent it from happening on the contrary they even helped the then Srilankan government with their war along with China in a rare display of cooperation for worst crimes against humanity.

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Post by allenz »

ars wrote: post #11
tuna-piano wrote: post #9

I assume another close contender is the Nay Pyi Taw airport in Myanmar. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvqis0htxH/?taken-at=277450644 https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/277450644/naypyi... The city was built as a showcase capital for Myanmar's military government, and has crazy sights like a 20 lane highway (with almost no cars): https://www.go-myanmar.com/sites/go-myanmar.com/files/upload... More pictures: ht…

> the female side of the seat belt buckle The what? Are rides segregated or is there some kind of female buckle I have not heard of?

The phrase refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_of_connectors_and_faste...

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Post by pravinva »

rrggrr wrote: post #6
pravinva wrote: post #3

The slippery slope towards empire for the east India company didn't start by protecting dams and dredging or performing economic activities. It began by superior ammunition and military services that they provided to the various kings and nawabs who were warring with each other.taking sides, and extracting political power in return. Equity ownership means nothing if it's a business that has zero market value. Politic…

All influence is economic. Weapons and ammunition and soldiers cost money. China`s influence in the underdeveloped world over strategic raw materials should be of great concern to developed world strategic planners. Rare earth metals are a commonly cited example.

Not at all.a few years ago, the Chinese monopoly over so called rare earths threatened to increase prices of all electronics. But it took barely 2 years for new mines to be opened outside China profitably and the monopoly was broken. Ammunition is very rarely a market demand. It's dealt by govt bureaucracy and shady arms brokers. I.e nothing to do with economic activity. War is always a political act.

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Post by allannienhuis »

ars wrote: post #11
tuna-piano wrote: post #9

I assume another close contender is the Nay Pyi Taw airport in Myanmar. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvqis0htxH/?taken-at=277450644 https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/277450644/naypyi... The city was built as a showcase capital for Myanmar's military government, and has crazy sights like a 20 lane highway (with almost no cars): https://www.go-myanmar.com/sites/go-myanmar.com/files/upload... More pictures: ht…

> the female side of the seat belt buckle The what? Are rides segregated or is there some kind of female buckle I have not heard of?

most buckles have a male and female part. It's a common term to describe parts of things that fit into each other. Used in plumbing, electrical and many other industries.

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Post by tb78 »

ars wrote: post #11
tuna-piano wrote: post #9

I assume another close contender is the Nay Pyi Taw airport in Myanmar. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvqis0htxH/?taken-at=277450644 https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/277450644/naypyi... The city was built as a showcase capital for Myanmar's military government, and has crazy sights like a 20 lane highway (with almost no cars): https://www.go-myanmar.com/sites/go-myanmar.com/files/upload... More pictures: ht…

> the female side of the seat belt buckle The what? Are rides segregated or is there some kind of female buckle I have not heard of?

When two halves of a seatbelt love each other very much, the male end inserts himself into the female end's receptacle
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