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This is supposed to be the game changing logistics corridor that cuts China out? Funny thing is, as another person mentioned, it still has to go through a Chinese owned port.
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I don't quite understand this. This is a logistical nightmare. It requires continuous loadings and unloadings at many ports from ships, trains and trailers to reach Europe via so many countries. Wouldn't it be more practical and economical by just shipping the containers directly from India or Saudi Arabia to Europe via the Suze canal, thus bypassing all the other tolls and check points?
Yeah, the biggest container ships may not be able to pass through the canal, but how many freight wagons can they put on a single journey? And this assuming they all have the same track width.
You understand it correctly.
It is just a bad propaganda story, this or any Western lead infrastructure program to rival One Belt One Road.
Various forms of One Belt One Road has been ongoing for over decade now, China building infrastructure in the developing world.
These people in the think tanks and government offices, never had a real job in the real world ever in their entire lives.
Any peasant can tell them, if you want to build an outhouse, just build one at a convenient location. You need three outhouses?
China is building like 8 or more dams on the Mekong. Then will Americans will build another 8 more?
That is the whole point about building infrastructure, like roads, rails, ports, is the best locations will be used.
Did the best BRI projects settle for the second best location, so that they leave the best location for the West to build from there?
No. BRI projects took the best locations.
Even those pro-China Twitter could not even figure out this basic point, which any peasant in China would know.
Building infrastructure, like a canal to the fish pond, is all about location. Take the best location and build. That's it.
BRI beat them to the punch. They are just too late to get in the game, years ago.
Propaganda stories will not change that.
These stories are not legitimate.
The truck losing money in Europe is that a metaphor for how this project will be lost case?
Too many Chinese think like merchants and too many diaspora Chinese are patriots in words only; they’re actually most loyal to their corporate masters for giving them their highly-valued engineering and tech jobs!
As much as it pains me to say so, to me, it seems that China has already lost this great competition, based, solely on its integration into the dominating economic order. I doubt that it will ever achieve separation sufficient to politico-economic independence. In fact, despite this being what it absolutely needs, I don’t believe this is what China actually wants.
For one, China really needs to re-think its emphasis on verticality, in everything. Stacking millions of people into gruesome uber-vertical tenements is no way to create domestic demand for the many, varied, products that China produces. With my driveway, walkway, front-yard, front-porch, backyard, patio, and garage (like everybody in my neighborhood, and most in my city), I create more demand for Chinese products than any but the highest-class of Chinese. Why not take advantage of the incredible transportation tech that’s been developed and build some horizontal cities in some of that empty space in central-China? With all that high-speed rail tech, folks could easily commute to the nearest profit-generating centers. Emphasize the building of houses, not goddamn apartments! Houses with porches and patios filled with furniture, yards with gardens and with swings for kids, gazebos with strings of lights and lawn furniture, and surrounded by fences, garages filled with lawn-care products and tools for all kinds of projects and bikes for the kids, and for the family, to ride!
Stop being the goddamn merchant to the world and focus on being the merchant to China!
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It's still theft and in the popular understanding, theft of the cargo of a ship is piracy. If I tell a captain of a cargo ship that I'll kidnap him and threaten his family unless he gives me the cargo he's carrying, then what exactly am I doing if you don't want to call it piracy?
Confiscation is when a state seizes private property over which it has jurisdiction. When the state does not have jurisdiction, it is simply stealing. The thieves aren't going to return the money they got from selling the oil, are they?
People have to stop repeating American narratives. When they do it, it's legal sanctions, when others do it it's illegal economic coercion. When they do it, it's legal seizure, when others do it it's illegal piracy. When they bomb someone it's a targeted drone strike, when others do it it's terrorism. When they take a person it's a lawful arrest, when others do it it's kidnapping. Etc
Stop the double standards. The US is a nation of thieves and terrorists who are threatening the international community
It will come once the country side is developed, my dad told me how the dutch country side went from shitting in outhouses to owning 3~4 cars per household within like 40 years time.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
plawolf
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Well, to be fair, all Chinese look alike to Americans.
反华不彻底就是彻底不反华。
LMAO I was getting worried for that guy. Turns out it's just the NatSec establishment eating their own for having a slight hint of rationality.