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1. China is pouring billions and billions into infrastructure in Africa and Europe that will long

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 11:47 AM

Feb 2018

outlive dictators.

The Belt and Road investment linking India with China through Pakistan, Burma,
Thailand and Laos is a good thing that will spur economic development throughout.

It is not like they can remove the infrastructure once relations sour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Thai–Lao_Friendship_Bridge

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/bridge-to-thailand-part-of-railway-project-07202015102910.html

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Do not think China can impose tolls on foreign soil. Fred Sanders Feb 2018 #3

Bet they'd find a willing party to do it for them. Wwcd Feb 2018 #4