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Consider...China is building an alternative to the Panama Canal in Nicaragua. Now this.
How the US got tagged with conducting the "America, World Police" scheme or hopping on every social bandwagon is beyond me.
China is doing what we once did.
The sooner America's military gets out of the diplomacy game, the sooner the State Department can get their act together and start challenging these frankly brilliant moves by the Red Dragon. Hope is not high however.
Sidenote: For the internationalist that say we have a responsibility to the helpless or to protect our interests I say this. The world is in chaos and always will be. Accept reality and then you can determine real cost benefits to certain actions!
Nairobi (AFP) - China on Sunday signed a deal to build a $3.8 billion rail link between Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.We play checkers while China plays chess.
Under the terms of the agreement, Exim Bank of China will provide 90 percent of the cost to replace the crumbling British colonial-era line with a 609.3 kilometre (379 mile) standard-gauge link and Kenya the remaining 10 percent.
Construction is due to start in October and take three-and-a-half years to complete, with China Communications Construction Co. as the main contractor.
Once the Mombasa-Nairobi line is completed, construction would begin to link east Africa's largest economy with Kampala, Kigali, Bujumbura and Juba.
The deal was signed at State House in Nairobi and witnessed by presidents Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan.
Consider...China is building an alternative to the Panama Canal in Nicaragua. Now this.
How the US got tagged with conducting the "America, World Police" scheme or hopping on every social bandwagon is beyond me.
China is doing what we once did.
The sooner America's military gets out of the diplomacy game, the sooner the State Department can get their act together and start challenging these frankly brilliant moves by the Red Dragon. Hope is not high however.
Sidenote: For the internationalist that say we have a responsibility to the helpless or to protect our interests I say this. The world is in chaos and always will be. Accept reality and then you can determine real cost benefits to certain actions!
