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Cake day: August 3rd, 2022

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  • Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.


  • I have an acquaintance (on other topics fairly intelligent) who I think gets lots of his news from the neoliberal twitter sphere, who told me, in passing, how the BRI was slowing down because the debt-trap diplomacy China was doing was failing, he said “turns out there is not much you can do to a sovereign nation even if they owe you money”.

    The whole debt trap diplomacy story is just CIA propaganda. Here is an article on Sri Lanka. One of the authors, Deborah Brautigam, is a professor at John Hopkins studying the economic ties between China and Africa, and she has written numerous books on the topic and her work is quite positive of China. Maybe you can use her work to at least make people question this narrative.