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56860 said:

Literally everything you said about Pakistan can be accurately extrapolated to India. Both are failed states with inept governments. The only difference is population.

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56860 said:

Literally everything you said about Pakistan can be accurately extrapolated to India. Both are failed states with inept governments. The only difference is population.

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Overbom said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1576545401796452353

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Petrolicious88 said:

Except Pakistan is much worse:

- It has suffered near constant political instability. From 1988 to 1998, it had 7 different governments through multiple coups, with political crisis happening again in 1999, 2001, 2007, etc..2022. It’s a failed state.

- GDP per capita in Pakistan is around 50% lower compared to India. That delta will continue to widen.

- It’s addicted to foreign loans without making the necessary economic reforms. Can it function without IMF or China bailouts?

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HereToSeePics said:

Not good for China since the BRI network from China to Europe transits through portions of Russia
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Paraguay may be next to switch ties to China​

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• President Mario Abdo Benítez wants Taiwan to cough up US$1 billion. Otherwise, the Chinese market beckons for his country’s powerful farming lobby

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“Imagine what the [agricultural] producers say when meat prices fall and they don’t have access to China,” Abdo said. “They ask you: ‘Please, we have to open up to the Chinese market. What does Taiwan give us when we are a country which could sell its entire soy and meat output to China?’”

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A Foreign Policy Analysis study last year estimated that Paraguay had to forgo the equivalent of 1 per cent of gross domestic product per year in lost aid and investment between 2005 and 2014 from China.

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Abdo said in the interview that his health minister met the Chinese consul in Brazil about vaccine aid at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. “You have three options,” Abdo quoted the consul as saying. “You can be Chinese, which you aren’t, an ally of China, which you aren’t, or a poor country which you aren’t either.”

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Overbom said:

That Chinese consul.. Absolute Chad
Abdo said in the interview that his health minister met the Chinese consul in Brazil about vaccine aid at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. “You have three options,” Abdo quoted the consul as saying. “You can be Chinese, which you aren’t, an ally of China, which you aren’t, or a poor country which you aren’t either.”

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Helius said:

News aside, I find it surprising that CGTN had its licence revoked in the UK, but CCTV, of all outlets, is allowed to operate there.

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Opec+ plans substantial oil production cut to prop up prices​

Group expected to discuss reduction of more than 1mn barrels a day at meeting on Wednesday

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The Opec+ oil alliance is planning a substantial cut in production to prop up falling prices, according to people close to the discussions, as the group prepares to meet in person for the first time since March 2020.

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The oil group, which is led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, is expected to discuss a production cut that could total more than 1mn barrels a day at the meeting on Wednesday. This is by far the largest since early in the pandemic and equivalent to more than 1 per cent of global supplies.

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