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Bangkok’s balancing act: Is Thailand really in lockstep with China?

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On 12/22/2019 at 7:05 PM, Traubert said:

It's a straight trade off for natural resources in the countries involved. It actually prevents countries falling into debt that they can't repay in a pecuniary sense and stops the local warlords marching in and nicking the lot, abandoning the projects.

 

Naturally, you will only hear about the harbour and airport in Sri Lanka which is nowhere near Africa and was more of a political issue than financial.

Yes I know were Sri Lanka is ....   

 

I suppose we will have to wait and see how it all pans out in the end....  Trading natural resources for roads and big building and brown envelopes for all the politicians involved.

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