MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Erica Pandey @ Axios.com, 4 hrs. ago
China is leveraging debts to gain control of strategic ports and secure primary access to African oil in Angola, Kenya and Djibouti.
Why it matters: The Chinese are offering up attractive infrastructure projects to the countries that need them most and following up with escalating demands for influence. That approach will spread to even more of the globe under Beijing's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.
Angola is using its precious resource, crude oil, to chip away at a $25 billion debt to China [....]
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Finance is war by other means? Clausewitz retranslated/revised version. (hat tip to Karl Marx)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/15/2018 - 5:56am