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1. Kicking our ass with our money. If I were advising them, I'd say go balls out around

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 01:12 PM

Sep 2020

the world being the good guy. They are already doing some of that. Plus do everything possible to raise their peoples standard of living. They will need to make them the kind of consumer market we have been.

They have everything they need to be the dominant world power now. I can see them taking over a lot of the military and food aid we supply or used to. Nothing ever said that was ours to keep forever.

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China's third aircraft carrier takes shape, with ambitions to challenge U.S. naval dominance [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 OP

Kicking our ass with our money. If I were advising them, I'd say go balls out around brewens Sep 2020 #1

China is behind a lot of civil engineering projects in Africa. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #2

That's what I had in mind. Expect more if they have any sense. They can well afford it, courtesy of brewens Sep 2020 #3

It's not Bechtel building those dams. It's ... I don't know; the Chinese equivalent of Bechtel. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author soryang Sep 2020 #5