Pentagon Ultimatum to Erdogan: No F-35s If You Buy Russian Tech, page-17

for what it is worth, but china ranks number 9 when it comes to investing (ie buying up) in Australia - and the Chinese government are actually trying to cut down on the amount of Chinese investment in Australia - .. it seems that the Chinese government think that there is a lot of HOT money being invested in Australian real estate .

ok - so there maybe some countries that accept Chinese money - so what - it is their choice .. they are free to accept or reject... come to think of it - but not much difference to Australians voting for lab or the libs - it is our choice . .. if Australians vote labor, then we can be guaranteed to be paying for the mistake for years down the track .

if the chinese are offering to lend money for infrastructure projects - well maybe the americans should offer a better counter arrangement .. some countries are good at playing both sides of the coin - to get maximum benefit .. that happened a bit during the cold war ... from the net

We Don't Give a Dam - The Feud Over Financing the Aswan High ...https://adst.org/2016/06/dont-give-dam-feud-financing-aswan-high-dam/After the United States' withdrawal of funding, Egypt turned to the Soviet Union for financial support for the Aswan Dam. The dam's construction forced the relocation of over 100,000 people and several ancient monuments, including the two massive temples of Abu Simbel, which were carefully dismantled and reassembled along the shore of the ...

from memory TITO (the guy from yugoslavia) was good at dealing with both the russians and the americans .

the american way included rendition - lol where they would send suspects to places like syria where the syrians could do the dirty deeds for the americans .. obviously the syrians were in the good books of the americans at the time .

countries simply have the choice of accepting or rejecting chinese money... countries have no choice with american interferance ... american interferance comes with mayhem, destruction , killing .

for what it is worth but watso used to be a firm believer in the usa - and would blindly believe their propoganda - but no more