Comments by "Rap" (@rap3208) on "Why Latin America Chose China (You Won't Believe What USA Did)" video.

@maddog3768 Three decades of violence, internal upheavals, insurgency made Sri lanka a candidate for a failed state. The economic crisis is a result of mismanagement by the Rajapaksa administration (and its predecessors) as well as Sri Lanka’s vulnerability to external shocks. Sri Lanka was already a basket case. The hambantota port was a project of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and a canadian company who proposed it. The feasibility study was done twice at separate times by canada and a sweden and was deemed a good project. Sri Lanka went to china when the canadian company that was to build it backed out. After the port was done, Sri Lanka mismanaged it and was bleeding money so they went to China for help again. They leased majority of the port for $1.2 billion and were going to use the money to shore up their reserves and pay some other maturing short term loans (Sri lanks at the time was already in dire straits). There is no debt to port exchange as was reported by all western media, it was a lease and Sri lanka still have to pay their debt to China of which they have never failed to do so. In exchange the white elephant port is out of thei hands and is now receiving regular income from it and China also have an obligation to expand ang develop it. You should educate yourself about current Sri lanka and it Hambantota Port, you are so grossly misinformed and disinformed by restricting yourself to western media only. Why not read Sri lankan side, China's side or a neutral side? Reading all should give you the whole picture. Hint: Don't use Google as your search engine.
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He wasn't saying LatAm is america's backyard, he was just repeating US statements that latin america is its backyard - there is a big difference.
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Their quality is as good or better than US products. You get what you pay for. IF you pay for cheap products, don't expect them to be as good as the expensive US products, you have to compare products of same prices.
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@drewavery7811 The greater separation you are talking about is internal affairs, more about being woke and such trappings. For US foreign affairs, they are one and the same - it's all about maintaining dominance and power over the rest of the world.
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BigNoseJəw: lol! stop reading western media. The western media was in full support of Bachelet for being critical oc China's actions in Xinjiang but the moment it was confirmed that Bachelet was going to Xinjiang, the western media did a premptive strike to damage bachelet saying she'll just become a chinese puppet. They did that because they know bachelet won't find any evidence of truth of the western media campaign against Xinjiang. As soon as she went home, they forced her not to seek reelection to the office. Even now, they won't publish anything of bachelet's findings and is continuing a blackout of her except for articles still continuing to damage her.
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BigNoseJəw: : Have you heard of the western media? It is actually the world's media as the rest of the world just air or publish western news according to them. That is why US invasions of Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Bosnia, Somalia, Yemen, etc. were swept under the rug or were given such weindow dressings that people were made to believe it was for the common good. Right now, the whole might of western media is against Russia and China, but its a little different now, there are youtube channels or other social medias that even though very minute compared to the western media, they still are able to present the other side of the coin to western media to a small audience who cares to find out the real truth.
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@RachmadaniFAG The US spent $2.313 trillion in afghanistan. It could have used that trillions of dollars to build an extensive freeway crisscrossing the country, hundreds of schools, and hospitals, irrigation, farm collectives, government administration buildings and other infrstructures and still would have ended up with a sizable amount in the pocket. The US would have earned a grateful ally but instead the US at the end were chased out of the country and added a nation that hates the US' guts to boot. But of course the US couldn't do that, the MIC will not allow it.
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@danpress7745 Would you go to China? China won't stop you. It is your bias against China that is preventing you from going there. Decades and decades of anti-China propaganda did wonders of brainwashing you against them. Perhaps, along with your racial discrimination, you also have fear of the yellow peril?
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@davetims5519 lol! Since 2015, more than 150 million chinese tourists go out into the world and each one went back. There are millions of students and business people around the world and they go back home. There are thousands of protests in China every year, none of them died. Even Taiwan of which the US is trying very hard to goad it into a shooting war with China has millions of taiwanese living, working and studying in China. I believe you are still stuck with the China of the 70s.
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@davetims5519 Take a look at the chinese tourists in Thailand, Greece, etc. - they are just ordinary chinese. Why don't you try educating yourself about China instead of just accusing it out of your ignorance? Just type chinese protest in your search engine and start reading. Don't use google though, they bury the right answers,. Sometimes it is okay if your question is clear and specific. Damn! You're really 30 years out of date when it comes to China. Goodbye, Idon't really want to talk with one so brainwashed.
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That "No Action, Talk Only" is untrue. NATO just doesn't prefer to get into the action as possible. They'll finance a proxy war, they'll stage a coup or color revolution, they'll provide weapons and ammunitions (to both sides of the conflict if possible), they prefer doing airstrikes by drones or aircraft, maybe send a covert/black ops or two. They don't want to get their hands dirty but they do ACT.
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