There’s quite a bit available online (most of it by the MSM minions of the cabal) about China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), but the link I’d provided in the above comment is a pretty good one for starters, complete with maps of targeted countries. Venezuela, as you mentioned, is one of the target countries, but they also seem to maintain a solid focus on African countries as well.
From what I can glean - and I’m just delving into this for the first time myself here - the narrative seems to be a benevolent China reaching out to a country in need of infrastructure investment “to help them” while adding Chinese influence in the process. (As you mentioned about resources, building roads and bridges and so forth also allows the easier pillage of the countries’ resources).
So the ever-kindly, benevolent Chinese go into a country to do these projects and my guess is that most if not all of these are under-estimated in both cost and duration to gain some initial acceptance, then dragging the target countries into a massive debt spiral until they’re beholden to China for years if not decades.
T&T reporter Lanser goes into the history of how this befell his country in a Part 1 and Part 2 (linked below) documentary and, while I haven’t delved further, I’m guessing that it was marxist operatives who visited China in 1974, as he discusses, and imported these schemes, placing fellow marxists into the power positions subsequent to their rule.
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As it happened, I was just watching some of Lanser’s other videos on China’s troubling history and with T&T’s financial entanglement with China while you replied. In the linked video below (@9:30) he uses the first infrastructure project as an example. This first project, a stadium, begun in 2004, was supposed to cost $297M and be completed in 2007. It ended up costing over $1B and wasn’t completed until ten years later in 2017.
One has to think… why such huge discrepancies in project costs and duration? (Reminds me, personally, of the Boston “Big Dig”). Who benefited from this? Were there bribes? Now they’re beholden to China for an additional $700M, their debt to them ballooning, and this is just ONE project, the first one. How many more projects and at what cost? How deep is their current debt to China’s “investments”? Trinidad and Tobago is just one small country and China has targeted about 150 countries. I think it was the Part 1 documentary (not linked) that delves into the concerns of how China, when a country can’t pay the debt, starts confiscating not only these projects, but also thousands of additional acres of land as “repayments”. We’re talking about ports, probably hospitals and more. Think of that… ports… confiscated by communist China.
There’s quite a bit available online (most of it by the MSM minions of the cabal) about China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), but the link I’d provided in the above comment is a pretty good one for starters, complete with maps of targeted countries. Venezuela, as you mentioned, is one of the target countries, but they also seem to maintain a solid focus on African countries as well.
From what I can glean - and I’m just delving into this for the first time myself here - the narrative seems to be a benevolent China reaching out to a country in need of infrastructure investment “to help them” while adding Chinese influence in the process. (As you mentioned about resources, building roads and bridges and so forth also allows the easier pillage of the countries’ resources).
So the ever-kindly, benevolent Chinese go into a country to do these projects and my guess is that most if not all of these are under-estimated in both cost and duration to gain some initial acceptance, then dragging the target countries into a massive debt spiral until they’re beholden to China for years if not decades.
T&T reporter Lanser goes into the history of how this befell his country in a Part 1 and Part 2 (linked below) documentary and, while I haven’t delved further, I’m guessing that it was marxist operatives who visited China in 1974, as he discusses, and imported these schemes, placing fellow marxists into the power positions subsequent to their rule.
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As it happened, I was just watching some of Lanser’s other videos on China’s troubling history and with T&T’s financial entanglement with China while you replied. In the linked video below (@9:30) he uses the first infrastructure project as an example. This first project, a stadium, begun in 2004, was supposed to cost $297M and be completed in 2007. It ended up costing over $1B and wasn’t completed until ten years later in 2017.
One has to think… why such huge discrepancies in project costs and duration? (Reminds me, personally, of the Boston “Big Dig”). Who benefited from this? Were there bribes? Now they’re beholden to China for an additional $700M, their debt to them ballooning, and this is just ONE project, the first one. How many more projects and at what cost? How deep is their current debt to China’s “investments”? Trinidad and Tobago is just one small country and China has targeted about 150 countries. I think it was the Part 1 documentary (not linked) that delves into the concerns of how China, when a country can’t pay the debt, starts confiscating not only these projects, but also thousands of additional acres of land as “repayments”.
There’s quite a bit available online (most of it by the MSM minions of the cabal) about China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), but the link I’d provided in the above comment is a pretty good one for starters, complete with maps of targeted countries. Venezuela, as you mentioned, is one of the target countries, but they also seem to maintain a solid focus on African countries as well.
From what I can glean - and I’m just delving into this for the first time myself here - the narrative seems to be a benevolent China reaching out to a country in need of infrastructure investment “to help them” while adding Chinese influence in the process. (As you mentioned about resources, building roads and bridges and so forth also allows the easier pillage of the countries’ resources).
So the ever-kindly, benevolent Chinese go into a country to do these projects and my guess is that most if not all of these are under-estimated in both cost and duration to gain some initial acceptance, then dragging the target countries into a massive debt spiral until they’re beholden to China for years if not decades.
T&T reporter Lanser goes into the history of how this befell his country in a Part 1 and Part 2 (linked below) documentary and, while I haven’t delved further, I’m guessing that it was marxist operatives who visited China in 1974, as he discusses, and imported these schemes, placing fellow marxists into the power positions subsequent to their rule.
.
As it happened, I was just watching some of Lanser’s other videos on China’s troubling history and with T&T’s financial entanglement with China while you replied. In the linked video below (@9:30) he uses the first infrastructure project as an example. This first project, a stadium, begun in 2004, was supposed to cost $297M and be completed in 2007. It ended up costing over $1B and wasn’t completed until ten years later in 2017.
One has to think… why such huge discrepancies in project costs and duration? (Reminds me, personally, of the Boston “Big Dig”). Who benefited from this? Were there bribes? Now they’re beholden to China for an additional $700M, their debt to them ballooning, and this is just ONE project, the first one. How many more projects and at what cost? How deep is their current debt to China’s “investments”? I think it was the Part 1 documentary (not linked) that delves into the concerns of how China, when a country can’t pay the debt, starts confiscating not only these projects, but also thousands of additional acres of land as “repayments”.
There’s quite a bit available online (most of it by the MSM minions of the cabal) about China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), but the link I’d provided in the above comment is a pretty good one for starters, complete with maps of targeted countries. Venezuela, as you mentioned, is one of the target countries, but they also seem to maintain a solid focus on African countries as well.
From what I can glean - and I’m just delving into this for the first time myself here - the narrative seems to be a benevolent China reaching out to a country in need of infrastructure investment “to help them” while adding Chinese influence in the process. (As you mentioned about resources, building roads and bridges and so forth also allows the easier pillage of the countries’ resources).
So the ever-kindly, benevolent Chinese go into a country to do these projects and my guess is that most if not all of these are under-estimated in both cost and duration to gain some initial acceptance, then dragging the target countries into a massive debt spiral until they’re beholden to China for years if not decades.
T&T reporter Lanser goes into the history of how this befell his country in a Part 1 and Part 2 (linked below) documentary and, while I haven’t delved further, I’m guessing that it was marxist operatives who visited China in 1974, as he discusses, and imported these schemes, placing fellow marxists into the power positions subsequent to their rule.
.
As it happened, I was just watching some of Lanser’s other videos on China’s troubling history and with T&T’s financial entanglement with China while you replied. In the linked video below (@9:30) he uses the first infrastructure project as an example. This first project, a stadium, was supposed to cost $297M and be completed in 2007. It ended up costing over $1B and wasn’t completed until ten years later in 2017.
One has to think… why such huge discrepancies in project costs and duration? (Reminds me, personally, of the Boston “Big Dig”). Who benefited from this? Were there bribes? Now they’re beholden to China for an additional $700M, their debt to them ballooning, and this is just ONE project, the first one. How many more projects and at what cost? How deep is their current debt to China’s “investments”? I think it was the Part 1 documentary (not linked) that delves into the concerns of how China, when a country can’t pay the debt, starts confiscating not only these projects, but also thousands of additional acres of land as “repayments”.