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A few months ago, the United States asked China to receive Afghan immigrants. And according to your logic, China should also get it all because China is superpower and willing to face all the risks because of the challenge and opportunity to go together? If the risk is bigger than the reward, why do China have to do it?
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Your logic is like it's business and Russia is not affected by any negative impact. It is only half the truth.
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My logic is that there is no generosity but a calculated business decision. Just like in every business, there are some downsides but considering that they went through with it means that Russians think that the benefits outweigh them - i.e. gained Soviet assets in the long-term > Soviet debt.
I understand
That is the difference in perspective. Each country and each person has their own definition.
This is a view from Russia's source.
Summary:
1. For lending, someone thinks it is business. But Russians argue that it is generous.
2. For debt removal, someone thinks it is the calculation and benefits, but for Russians, it is a controversial decision, including benefits and risks, and Russia feels disappointed by the attitude of some countries
I add few more - "COVID MEME 2020" -- to give it a deep thought, that's what they really thought, that the virus would cripple China's economy and industry at that time, and caused a huge exodus of manufacturers from there, a success story!
I believe if we look again around that time, there will be more elite members, not only Ross, and other media voiced the same wishes! I name all the screen captures and video of this topic under COVID MEME 2020.
The video is here:
Just in case any one here still does not know about the true story of Hambantota port amidst the crowd of misinformation by the MSM, please keep this info for your future reference!
The truth about Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port, Chinese ‘debt traps’ and ‘asset seizures’
When critics of Beijing accuse the government of debt traps and other predatory policies, the example that crops up is almost always that of the Chinese-built Hambantota International Port in Sri Lanka.
The government of Sri Lanka, a country where Chinese firms have also financed and constructed railways, roads and power stations, allegedly failed to repay Chinese loans to build the port and was then forced to lease it to China, which covets the port as a naval base.
It is part of an oft-told tale that China provides infrastructure loans to developing countries, often as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, knowing they cannot be repaid, allowing China to seize borrowing states’ valuable assets.
US consultants the Rhodium Group recently released a study into Chinese asset seizures and found just one instance: the above-mentioned Hambantota port.
However, interviews we have done in Sri Lanka show that even this lone instance is NOT REMOTELY TRUE.
The Hambantota port lease was *NOT* a result of any inability to service the loans, nor was it a debt-for-equity swap — the Sri Lankan government still owns the port. And funds received for the lease were not used to repay port-related debt, but to pay off MORE EXPENSIVE LOANS, generally to Western entities.
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Very interesting reading, with much new information! A must-read piece by PEPE ESCOBAR
Sample lines only
"When President Tokayev was referring, in code, to a “single center,” he meant a so far ‘secret’ US-Turk-Israeli military-intel operations room based in the southern business hub of Almaty, according to a highly placed Central Asia intel source. In this “center,” there were 22 Americans, 16 Turks and 6 Israelis coordinating sabotage gangs – trained in West Asia by the Turks – and then rat-lined to Almaty."
"The Hybrid War west had to be stunned and livid at how the CSTO intercepted the Kazakh operation at such lightning speed. The key element is that the secretary of Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, saw the Big Picture eons ago.
So, it’s no mystery why Russia’s aerospace and aero-transported forces, plus the massive necessary support infrastructure, were virtually ready to go."