They can spend a quadrillion on their alternatives to BRI for all I care, it won’t be successful. They don’t have the capability to build project after project on time and on budget year after year. Who is going to work on these infrastructure projects? Who’s doing the project management? China builds infrastructure project after infrastructure project all over the world.
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They can spend a quadrillion on their alternatives to BRI for all I care, it won’t be successful. They don’t have the capability to build project after project on time and on budget year after year. Who is going to work on these infrastructure projects? Who’s doing the project management? China builds infrastructure project after infrastructure project all over the world.
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It's very simple but again Westerners think they have something beyond...
...that makes the world choose the West. The West must be actually believing in their own bull about soft power because they think infrastructure magically grows in countries that they like from nowhere without money. And that's why China beats them because China ain't giving out fantasy infrastructure that only exists in their imaginations.
The West thinks when they spend money for themselves they're doing the world a favor because that's all they're doing if they're actually giving money because when they do give money to other countries the condition is they have to buy the materials to build infrastructure from them. That's just corporate welfare where they're just handing out free money to their own elites to build "infrastructure" that will disappear "in the books" and then their own citizens will believe it was wasted by corrupt governments they handed money to. That's also why everything the West does cost more money to do.
Why did Western countries join China's AIIB? It wasn't like they were putting up the majority of the money. China was. It was because they wanted their companies to get the contracts to build infrastructure in countries loans were given to. It was guaranteed money backed up by AIIB so they didn't have to worry about defaults from the countries loans were given to.
Now they think they can compete against China with their own international infrastructure plans without money. But then again as usual countries that want loans will have to submit to demands first before they get any money and that really is the whole point of the game they want to play without having to spend the money. Look at Ukraine how Zelensky is making anti-China statements. Whether that was under his own volition or forced by the West, it basically traps Ukraine under the US's will because China is less likely to help Ukraine with anything now. No different from all these economic alliances and coalitions supposedly against China the US is building. It's really not about stopping China. It's more about the US controlling its own allies from doing business with China or anyone else that rubs the US the wrong way.
All this bull because the only way they're going to have the upper hand on China is to have the money and since they're all worried about it, it's because they don't have the money. In their denial, they want to believe people would naturally choose them over China so it must be because China is doing something underhanded. No it's simply because the West doesn't have the money.
...that makes the world choose the West. The West must be actually believing in their own bull about soft power because they think infrastructure magically grows in countries that they like from nowhere without money. And that's why China beats them because China ain't giving out fantasy infrastructure that only exists in their imaginations.
The West thinks when they spend money for themselves they're doing the world a favor because that's all they're doing if they're actually giving money because when they do give money to other countries the condition is they have to buy the materials to build infrastructure from them. That's just corporate welfare where they're just handing out free money to their own elites to build "infrastructure" that will disappear "in the books" and then their own citizens will believe it was wasted by corrupt governments they handed money to. That's also why everything the West does cost more money to do.
Why did Western countries join China's AIIB? It wasn't like they were putting up the majority of the money. China was. It was because they wanted their companies to get the contracts to build infrastructure in countries loans were given to. It was guaranteed money backed up by AIIB so they didn't have to worry about defaults from the countries loans were given to.
Now they think they can compete against China with their own international infrastructure plans without money. But then again as usual countries that want loans will have to submit to demands first before they get any money and that really is the whole point of the game they want to play without having to spend the money. Look at Ukraine how Zelensky is making anti-China statements. Whether that was under his own volition or forced by the West, it basically traps Ukraine under the US's will because China is less likely to help Ukraine with anything now. No different from all these economic alliances and coalitions supposedly against China the US is building. It's really not about stopping China. It's more about the US controlling its own allies from doing business with China or anyone else that rubs the US the wrong way.
All this bull because the only way they're going to have the upper hand on China is to have the money and since they're all worried about it, it's because they don't have the money. In their denial, they want to believe people would naturally choose them over China so it must be because China is doing something underhanded. No it's simply because the West doesn't have the money.
Remember these?
New year, old mistakes. CNN, your top geography class-bunking a$$h0le, as usual.
Source: @meiguo_niupai on Twitter
According to CNN, here's how the map of East and Southeast Asia would look like after the reunification of China:
New year, old mistakes. CNN, your top geography class-bunking a$$h0le, as usual.
Source: @meiguo_niupai on Twitter
According to CNN, here's how the map of East and Southeast Asia would look like after the reunification of China:
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Yep, they got no one. Large-scale infrastructure projects must be state-backed, either state invested or state guaranteed, given the very long return-on-investment cycle; no private firm would touch massive infrastructure with a 10-foot pole if governments aren't involved, and given the clowns in respective EU countries can't even manage their own countries, fat chance they do overseas projects. Some French, Italian and Spanish firms may be technically capable, but without financing and political support, they can forget about it, it's all China's game.
And they're concerned about covid in China...
By Senior Night Reporter
Paramedics were seen treating paitents at the entrance to A&E at Aintree Hospital (Image: Submitted)
In the new Royal Liverpool Hospital a 78-year-old man is lying on a trolley in a corridor. He's been there for two days, waiting, hoping to be moved into a bed on a ward.
The corridor full of patients on trolleys that he is lying in is a standard part of this hospital's Accident and Emergency department now. Around the corner in the designated A&E department there are scenes of desperation and chaos.
A man who has suffered a suspected stroke hasn't even made it onto a trolley. He's been waiting for 24 hours in the same chair. A woman has been given oxygen while she waits. Another is in so much pain she has decided to retreat to her car as its the most comfortable place for her to lie down.
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These scenes may sound dramatic - and they should do - but they have sadly become normal for hospitals up and down the country as the NHS faces its biggest ever crisis. The situation at the New Royal was recounted by a woman who tried to get her mother seen by a doctor after a serious asthma attack. Having been told to go to A&E, she couldn't believe what she was witnessing.
She said: "There was a woman in the waiting room who was vomiting into bowls, but there were no staff around to help her so other members of the public were helping her to clear it up. We were told by a staff member that there was a 30-hour wait for a bed. He had a big three-page list of all the people who were waiting for a bed."
This is not a situation confined to one hospital. Across the city at Aintree Hospital the situation is just as grim.
Around 15 ambulances can be seen queueing outside the entrance to the hospital's emergency department, with patients being treated inside. Inside the department and some of those paramedics can be seen tending to sick patients on rows of trolleys.
Further inside the A&E area and people are lying on the floor in pain, waiting for hours to see a doctor. One eyewitness in the department at the time described the scene as "soul-destroying."
Patients were seen lying on the floor in pain in the Aintree Hospital Accident and Emergency department (Image: Liverpool Echo)
They added: "All the beds were full and the patients were being treated in the back of ambulances outside. There were loads of people being treated in the literal doorway to A&E and nurses who had time to help had to just jump in when they could.
"People were waiting up to 21 hours just to be seen and there were people lying on the floor, some because they were in that much pain. People were then squeezed into rooms on drips and left. have never seen anything like that. The nurses were absolutely brilliant and a credit to themselves. It was soul-destroying to see these angel nurses doing everything they could, I felt sorry for them because it's not their fault."
Bosses at the Liverpool University Hospitals Trust which runs the Royal and Aintree say the demand on their A&E departments is now "unprecedented."
David Melia, Chief Nurse at the trust added: "Our hospitals are caring for a high number of patients who need to remain in a hospital bed. Patient safety remains our priority and our staff are doing everything possible to provide safe care to our patients. All patients in our emergency departments are triaged on arrival and their care is prioritised according to their clinical needs.
"Staff are present in all areas where patients are being cared for. Patients are reviewed at regular intervals and are appropriately monitored and supported, including offering them food and drink and pain relief if necessary."
He added: “Unless their condition is life-threatening, we are urging people not to attend the Emergency Department. Please use NHS 111 online for advice on the best service for your condition. Local Walk-in and Urgent Treatment Centres are open 7 days a week, even on Bank Holidays and your local pharmacist can provide expert advice on a range of common conditions.”
If the situation in Liverpool's hospitals is critical, the scenes over the water are no better. At Arrowe Park there are now regularly four corridors full of patients waiting on trolleys as the facility's A&E department is overrun.
An emergency clinical support worker in the department laid out the reality. He said: "We are just completely overwhelmed. The A&E has capacity for around 60 patients and we are getting 150 now at any one time. There are four or five corridors with trolleys full of patients because there are no beds, it's just crazy, I have never seen it like this.
"We have patients having heart attacks who we don't have trolleys or beds for, so they are sat waiting in chairs. We are having to ration care, having to decide who gets the next trolley with 20-30 people waiting for it.
"Yesterday there were waits of 30 hours for a hospital bed and nine hours just to see a doctor, there was no space whatsoever in resus."
The hospital has activated its trust capacity protocol for numerous days in a row now, this means staff from other departments can be redeployed to try and help with the chaos in A and E. It's usually reserved for major incidents.
He added: "We used to get a bad couple of weeks over the winter, but this is all the time now, we are in a constant state of crisis management and so many people just want to leave."
Long queues of ambulances could be seen outside Aintree Hospital, with patients being treated in the back of vehicles (Image: Liverpool Echo)
This dedicated health worker is set to soon leave the NHS after 17 years, six other staff members from his department will follow him out of the door. He added: "I am sad to be leaving the NHS, I don't want to leave but I can't do it anymore, every shift we are completely overwhelmed. I can't go in anymore. It is like going into a war zone every day."
"When I started this job 17 years ago we never had people waiting on trolleys in corridors, but we have seen it get worse every year over the past decade as with other facilities and centres shut down, the crisis in social care - everything impacts hospitals and their A and E departments in the end."
While Accident and Emergency is the visible frontline of the crisis in our hospitals, the chaos and pressure is felt across departments at all times. A ward doctor working in the same hospital explained the knock on impact.
Terrifying reality of the crisis in our NHS laid bare
People are being warned not to go to A&E unless their condition is life threateningBy Senior Night Reporter
- 04:30, 30 DEC 2022
- Updated07:44, 30 DEC 2022
Paramedics were seen treating paitents at the entrance to A&E at Aintree Hospital (Image: Submitted)
In the new Royal Liverpool Hospital a 78-year-old man is lying on a trolley in a corridor. He's been there for two days, waiting, hoping to be moved into a bed on a ward.
The corridor full of patients on trolleys that he is lying in is a standard part of this hospital's Accident and Emergency department now. Around the corner in the designated A&E department there are scenes of desperation and chaos.
A man who has suffered a suspected stroke hasn't even made it onto a trolley. He's been waiting for 24 hours in the same chair. A woman has been given oxygen while she waits. Another is in so much pain she has decided to retreat to her car as its the most comfortable place for her to lie down.
READ MORE:
These scenes may sound dramatic - and they should do - but they have sadly become normal for hospitals up and down the country as the NHS faces its biggest ever crisis. The situation at the New Royal was recounted by a woman who tried to get her mother seen by a doctor after a serious asthma attack. Having been told to go to A&E, she couldn't believe what she was witnessing.
She said: "There was a woman in the waiting room who was vomiting into bowls, but there were no staff around to help her so other members of the public were helping her to clear it up. We were told by a staff member that there was a 30-hour wait for a bed. He had a big three-page list of all the people who were waiting for a bed."
This is not a situation confined to one hospital. Across the city at Aintree Hospital the situation is just as grim.
Around 15 ambulances can be seen queueing outside the entrance to the hospital's emergency department, with patients being treated inside. Inside the department and some of those paramedics can be seen tending to sick patients on rows of trolleys.
Further inside the A&E area and people are lying on the floor in pain, waiting for hours to see a doctor. One eyewitness in the department at the time described the scene as "soul-destroying."
Patients were seen lying on the floor in pain in the Aintree Hospital Accident and Emergency department (Image: Liverpool Echo)
They added: "All the beds were full and the patients were being treated in the back of ambulances outside. There were loads of people being treated in the literal doorway to A&E and nurses who had time to help had to just jump in when they could.
"People were waiting up to 21 hours just to be seen and there were people lying on the floor, some because they were in that much pain. People were then squeezed into rooms on drips and left. have never seen anything like that. The nurses were absolutely brilliant and a credit to themselves. It was soul-destroying to see these angel nurses doing everything they could, I felt sorry for them because it's not their fault."
Bosses at the Liverpool University Hospitals Trust which runs the Royal and Aintree say the demand on their A&E departments is now "unprecedented."
David Melia, Chief Nurse at the trust added: "Our hospitals are caring for a high number of patients who need to remain in a hospital bed. Patient safety remains our priority and our staff are doing everything possible to provide safe care to our patients. All patients in our emergency departments are triaged on arrival and their care is prioritised according to their clinical needs.
"Staff are present in all areas where patients are being cared for. Patients are reviewed at regular intervals and are appropriately monitored and supported, including offering them food and drink and pain relief if necessary."
He added: “Unless their condition is life-threatening, we are urging people not to attend the Emergency Department. Please use NHS 111 online for advice on the best service for your condition. Local Walk-in and Urgent Treatment Centres are open 7 days a week, even on Bank Holidays and your local pharmacist can provide expert advice on a range of common conditions.”
If the situation in Liverpool's hospitals is critical, the scenes over the water are no better. At Arrowe Park there are now regularly four corridors full of patients waiting on trolleys as the facility's A&E department is overrun.
An emergency clinical support worker in the department laid out the reality. He said: "We are just completely overwhelmed. The A&E has capacity for around 60 patients and we are getting 150 now at any one time. There are four or five corridors with trolleys full of patients because there are no beds, it's just crazy, I have never seen it like this.
"We have patients having heart attacks who we don't have trolleys or beds for, so they are sat waiting in chairs. We are having to ration care, having to decide who gets the next trolley with 20-30 people waiting for it.
"Yesterday there were waits of 30 hours for a hospital bed and nine hours just to see a doctor, there was no space whatsoever in resus."
The hospital has activated its trust capacity protocol for numerous days in a row now, this means staff from other departments can be redeployed to try and help with the chaos in A and E. It's usually reserved for major incidents.
He added: "We used to get a bad couple of weeks over the winter, but this is all the time now, we are in a constant state of crisis management and so many people just want to leave."
Long queues of ambulances could be seen outside Aintree Hospital, with patients being treated in the back of vehicles (Image: Liverpool Echo)
This dedicated health worker is set to soon leave the NHS after 17 years, six other staff members from his department will follow him out of the door. He added: "I am sad to be leaving the NHS, I don't want to leave but I can't do it anymore, every shift we are completely overwhelmed. I can't go in anymore. It is like going into a war zone every day."
"When I started this job 17 years ago we never had people waiting on trolleys in corridors, but we have seen it get worse every year over the past decade as with other facilities and centres shut down, the crisis in social care - everything impacts hospitals and their A and E departments in the end."
While Accident and Emergency is the visible frontline of the crisis in our hospitals, the chaos and pressure is felt across departments at all times. A ward doctor working in the same hospital explained the knock on impact.
What's even funnier is that China likes BRI because it facilitates more exports and better supply chain.
The EU and the US trying to do the same is basically helping China's economy for free as China is an industrial economy that benefits more from developing countries' growth lol
World map after reunification, according to CNN:
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And I agree with Tom Fowdy again. The UK has huge problems. Yet it is still being belligerent against everyone, pursuing neoimperial influence over different regions.
I wrote here a few times about how the UK was the worst performer in Western Europe. In February a lot of British people were bragging about how they were not dependent on Russians. Yet their economy is the hardest hit one.
I wrote here a few times about how the UK was the worst performer in Western Europe. In February a lot of British people were bragging about how they were not dependent on Russians. Yet their economy is the hardest hit one.