Johnsell50 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:59 am
Clearly, they are not doing this from the goodness of their heart. And no, I do not hate the Chinese. I think this is a very smart move. Why go to war with countries when you can buy them? I don't think it is very smart of the countries to take on debt they can't pay back, including many in America. Yes, many of these poor countries need better infrastructure but they are selling their future to get it. When China finally needs something from the rulers of these countries, like China's rule of the China sea and contested islands, or trade deals in South America: which way do you think they are going to lean?
It's got nothing to do with hating the Chinese, but the Chinese are making themselves unpopular with these investments.
It's much more than merely building infrastructure, first of all, in places like Ream comes environmental destruction. Why the hell are investments like this approved inside supposed "protected" zones? I thought destroying national parks was supposed to be going the way of the dodo? Even in China, the country's leaders are preventing infrastructure developments from being built in sensitive areas.
These developers and the Cambodian government clearly have no morals and don't give a crap about destroying the environment. They won't stop until every inch of Cambodian forest is razed to the ground and Cambodia's average temperature is 5 degrees higher than it is now, with no more agriculture being possible and the place is basically just a larger version of Guangzhou or Hong Kong.
I'm also concerned about the fact that each of these projects brings in hundreds of thousands of Chinese to settle there. Did anyone ask the permission of the Cambodian people if they would like to have all these foreign Chinese as their neighbors? Imagine if hundreds of thousands of barang were transplanted to a new city built in China. Or Nigerians or Somalians or Indians for that matter. Would the Chinese be OK with that? If not, why do other countries have to accept hundreds of thousands of Chinese settlers in their countries?
None of this makes any sense. It's completely bizarre. No other country does anything this insane.
Now I am totally against the US strategy of domination by making war, but this Chinese approach isn't any better, it's simply Neo-colonialism.