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@zharkoo The Chile example,
USSR supported its Cuban proxy which in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority-governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
USSR's proxy attempted to remove Chile's check-and-balance Congress system. USSR's proxy attempted to concentrate political power into a single entity (individual and political party).
The US has no problems with the Swedish-style nanny market led-socialism that is practiced in the CANZUK and Nordic groups.
Look in the mirror.
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@zharkoo Saddam's Iraq does NOT operate US's M60, M1/M1A1, F-4, F5, F-7, F-14, F15 , F-16 and F/A-18. Your narrative is FALSE.
Saddam's Iraqi military hardware platforms are mostly Soviet designs.
Su-7BKL
Su-20
Su-22R
Su-22M2
Su-22M3
Su-22UM3
Su-22M4
Su-24MK
Su-25K/UBK
MiG-19C/Shenyang J-6 (China)
MiG-21MF/bis
MiG-23BN
MiG-23ML
MiG-23MF
MiG-23MS
MiG-23UM
MiG-25U
MiG-25RB
MiG-25PD/PDS/PU/R
MiG-29A
MiG-29UB
Tu-16/KSR-2-11
Tu-22B/U
Xian H-6D (China)
An-26 (Ukraine)
Ilyushin Il-76
Mirage F1EQ/BQ (France)
Mil Mi-8
Iraqi chemical WMD ware supplied by Europeans e.g.
On 24 April 2013, the district court of The Hague sentenced Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat to payment of damages to the victims of mustard-gas attacks in Iraq and Iran in the 1980s.
_Date: December 25, 2005 from Taipei times
A dutch businessman was given 15 years in jail for his role in supplying the chemicals used to create the poison gas which killed 5,000 kurds in Iraq
In the first trial involving the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons, a Dutch court on Friday sentenced a supplier of the weapon ingredients to 15 years in jail.
The judges convicted Frans van Anraat, 63, a Dutch businessman, of complicity in war crimes because they said he had known that the materials he sold to Iraq during the rule of former president Saddam Hussein could be used to make lethal poison gas.
Your narrative is FALSE.
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@zharkoo
Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
You missed the small detail in Ukraine's Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017.
CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE
Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996
Article 17
The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine.
Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17.
After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO.
If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea.
Putin's narrative is FALSE.
1. 1863–1864 January uprising, Russian Empire crushed Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian insurgents uprising.
2. Soviet–Ukrainian War occurred between 1917 to 1921, a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic vs the Bolsheviks i.e. Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (modern-day Russian Federation).
3. 2014, Russo-Ukrainian War. March 1, 2014, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation unanimously adopted a resolution to petition Russian President Vladimir Putin to use military force in Ukraine.
These "old world" issues existed before the US being a superpower.
Both China and Russia are the two surviving "old world" imperial empires that largely preserved their imperial land territories.
China and Russia think that communism clean slate of their imperialist colonial past.
You can't handle the truth.
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@anuvisraa5786 FALSE.
The Chile example,
USSR has supported its Cuban proxy that in turn supported Marxist Salvador Allende. You're a hypocrite.
Marxist Salvador Allende clashed with the right-wing parties that controlled Congress and with the judiciary. On 11 September 1973, the military moved to oust Allende in a coup d'état.
Marxist Salvador Allende's presidential branch effectively declared war on the judiciary and right-wing majority-governed Congress branches.
During the 1970 Chilean presidential election, both the United States and the Soviet Union poured money into this election through their intelligence agencies and other sources.
💰KGB money was more precisely targeted. Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende. The original allocation of money for these elections through the KGB was $400,000, and an additional personal subsidy of $50,000 directly to Allende.[8] It is believed that help from KGB was a decisive factor, because Allende won by a narrow margin of 39,000 votes of a total of the 3 million cast. After the elections, the KGB director Yuri Andropov obtained permission for additional money and other resources from the Central Committee of the CPSU to ensure Allende victory in Congress. In his request on 24 October, he stated that KGB "will carry out measures designed to promote the consolidation of Allende's victory and his election to the post of President of the country".
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In your argument's summary, the USSR-supported regime change intervention is okay while the US intervention is bad. Your argument is hypocritical.
USSR's proxy attempted to remove Chile's check-and-balance Congress system. USSR's proxy attempted to concentrate political power into a single entity (individual and political party).
The US has no problems with the Swedish-style nanny market led-socialism that is practiced in the CANZUK and Nordic countries.
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@kongwee1978 From Nikkei
How do Chinese loans compare with others?
By 2020, Sri Lanka's inability to honor maturing external debts was looming. The International Monetary Fund put the island's foreign debt at $38.6 billion, or 47.6% of the central government's total debt. China's slice was 10%, as was Japan's, placing the leading bilateral lenders after the main foreign creditors, international sovereign bondholders and the Asian Development Bank.
But the cost of borrowing from China set that debt apart. Numbers crunched by Verite Research, a Colombo-based think tank, show that the interest rates on Chinese loans averaged 3.3%, versus 0.7% for Japan's. And the maturity period averaged 18 years for Chinese debt, shorter than India's 24 years and Japan's 34 years.
None of this hindered the Rajapaksas' appetite for Chinese credit, opening the door for the Asian powerhouse to fund over a third of 313 debt-funded projects in post-conflict Sri Lanka.
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@jliang70 Lowyinstitute's debunking-myth-china-s-debt-trap-diplomacy article didn't factor in Sri Lankan' new government is investigating a Chinese firm on suspicion of offering a bribe to Mahinda Rajapaksa'.
History:
In the mid-2000s, Colombo (the commercial capital of Sri Lanka) agreed to let Beijing build a new port from scratch in the town of Hambantota, in the south of the island. It wasn’t yet thought of as part of a new Silk Road -- that programme was conceptualizsed by Xi Jinping in 2012 -- but all the ingredients were there. "Chinese funds and engineers are mobilised to build infrastructure outside China, as part of a partnership that was meant to be win-win: this is the very definition of the rationale of the Silk Road," said Jean-François Dufour, economist and director of DCA China-Analysis. The Chinese president integrated the Sri Lankan project into his Silk Road initiative in 2013.
But in 2015, financial clouds began gathering over the future of Hambantota’s port, which cost $1.1 billion. Sri Lanka was crumbling under the debt, and was unable to repay the more than $8 billion in loans it had taken from China for several infrastructure projects in the country. Furious, Beijing turned up the heat and threatened to cut off financial support to the island nation if it didn’t quickly find a solution. In December, 2017, after two years of negotiations, Colombo finally agreed to turn over the port to China for 99 years in exchange for the cancellation of its debt.
The concession was humiliating for Sri Lanka, while "the opponents of China, like India, painted the entire operation as a deliberate plan to acquire strategic positions in the region," Dufour said. China was suspected of intentionally strangling Colombo with loans at a 6 percent interest rate, which was much higher than the other lenders - such as the World Bank – from which Colombo had previously borrowed.
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@jliang70 Did you assume I wasn't aware Lowy and specifically, the author of Debunking the myth of China’s “debt-trap diplomacy” article is Shahar Hameiri from the University of Queensland?
Peter_Høj joined Hanban (Council of Confucius Institute Headquarter) as an unpaid senior consultant in 2013 and was later appointed a member of the governing council of Confucius Institute Headquarters in 2017. He stood down in late 2018 from his position due to legal advice surrounding his required signing of Australia's new Foreign Interference Transparency Scheme. Høj’s involvement with the Institute was seen as controversial after a Four Corners investigation by the ABC found that the Chinese government and the UQ Confucius Institute had co-funded four University of Queensland courses.
Furthermore a separate investigation by Four Corner’s highlighted that the Confucius Institute had been involved with honorary staff appointments and curriculum development at the University of Queensland. In May 2019 the UQ senate ceased accepting funding from the Confucius Institute. When interviewed about the situation Høj explained, "having courses concerning China is totally appropriate". He further said "It's very appropriate for universities such as ours to educate our students about Chinese politics, Chinese economics because we live in a region where China will be the largest economy in the world very soon, the largest trading partner for Australia". When questioned on the institute's involvement he said,"Is it appropriate that a Confucius Institute devises courses? No, it's not, but they don't. They're not involved in the design of the course. They're not involved in the delivery.”. The investigation interviewed Ross Babbage, senior security adviser to the federal government, and Clive Hamilton, an academic who focuses primarily on the interference of the Chinese Communist Party at Australian universities, both suggested a review into the universities' relationship with the institute. Furthermore Høj, when asked if he was influenced by the Chinese Communist party during his time at the Confucius Institute, said, "I'm very confident that I haven't been influenced."[12]
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@jliang70 You have forgotten the maturity date factor.
By 2020, Sri Lanka's inability to honor maturing external debts was looming. The International Monetary Fund put the island's foreign debt at $38.6 billion, or 47.6% of the central government's total debt. China's slice was 10%, as was Japan's, placing the leading bilateral lenders after the main foreign creditors, international sovereign bondholders, and the Asian Development Bank.
But the cost of borrowing from China set that debt apart. Numbers crunched by Verite Research, a Colombo-based think tank, show that the interest rates on Chinese loans averaged 3.3%, versus 0.7% for Japan's. And the maturity period averaged 18 years for Chinese debt, shorter than India's 24 years and Japan's 34 years.
None of this hindered the Rajapaksas' appetite for Chinese credit, opening the door for the Asian powerhouse to fund over a third of 313 debt-funded projects in post-conflict Sri Lanka.
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@jliang70 The debt repudiation example
On February 8, 1918, the Soviet government repudiated all bonds issued by the Tsarist government when the Soviet of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) cancelled all previously issued Russian government debt. It stopped payment on foreign debt at the beginning of 1918 and declared that all debts contracted by the Russian Empire were cancelled, as well as the debts contracted by the Russian Provisional Government, so that the war could be continued from February to November 1917.
At the same time, the Soviets decided to expropriate all assets of foreign nations in Russia. The Soviets also nationalized banks, lands, and industries. By repudiating the external debt, the Soviet government implemented the Petrograd Soviet’s decision of 1905.[4]
During the Cold War, the west imposed trade sanctions against RSFSR's expropriations.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly formed Russian Federation had to not only come up with a new financial strategy for its future, but also had to consider repaying the billions of dollars the Soviet Union borrowed from abroad. In 1996, Paris and Moscow signed an accord for Russia to repay a nominal value of between $80 and $100 for each of the 4 million czarist bonds believed to remain in circulation in France, for a total payout of around $400 million.[6] Russia paid but not nearly as generously as the descendants of French bond buyers hoped.[7]
You suck at history.
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@jliang70 Hambantota is home to Mahinda Rajapaksa, the sixth president of Sri Lanka, and his electoral district. When coming to power in November 2005, he wasted no time in launching several big-ticket infrastructure projects to revitalize the economy of his hometown. Hambantota Port, a project first mooted by his father, was one of them.
Exim Bank of China eventually agreed to fund 85 percent of Hambantota Port’s Phase 1 construction costs after much negotiations. The 15-year commercial loan of $306 million carried an interest rate of 6.3 percent with a four-year moratorium.
Construction work for Phase 1 of Hambantota Port, undertaken jointly by China Harbour Engineering Company (CMPH) and Sinohydro Corporation, commenced in January 2008.
However, Hambantota Port was unable to generate sufficient revenue to meet its loan obligations due to inadequate governance, lack of commercial and industrial activities, as well as its inability to attract passerby vessels to dock at the port. By the end of 2016, it suffered a total loss of $304 million.
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@jliang70 Date Aug, 21, 2019
Seven Chinese construction companies, including major railway builders, have been debarred by the World Bank for violating its fraud and corruption policy.
The names of the seven have appeared on the banks sanction list, meaning they are ineligible to bid for World Bank-funded projects for a specified period of time.
Details of infractions were not given.
The seven, all debarred for the relatively short period of 10 months to March 2020, are:
China Railway Construction (International) Nigeria Co. Ltd.
China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Engineering Co. Ltd.
China Railway 18th Bureau Nigeria Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Lekki (FTA) Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Railway Co. Ltd.
CRCC Petroleum & Gas Co. Ltd.
CCECC Nigeria Co. Ltd.
Separately, on 14 August, the bank announced the 15-month debarment of Chinese firm Beijing Jingold Construction Co., Ltd in connection with fraud during the procurement process for the $38.6m Samoa Aviation Investment Project, an airport improvement scheme.
The bank found that the company had a history of contract non-performance at the time of bidding, but misrepresented this fact when it bid. The company did not win the contract.
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@jliang70
From Iraq's 11,000-page report to the UN Security Council lists 150 foreign companies
The five permanent members of the Security Council – the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China – have repeatedly opposed revealing the extent of foreign companies' involvement, although a mass of relevant information was collected by UN weapons inspectors who visited the country between 1991 and 1998. The UN claims that publishing the extent of the companies' involvement in Iraq would jeopardise necessary co-operation with such firms.
German involvement outstripped that of all the other countries put together, the paper said. During the period to 1991, the German authoritiespermitted weapons co-operation with Iraq and in some cases "actively encouraged" it, according to the newspaper which cited German assistance allegedly given to Iraq for the development of poison gas used in the 1988 massacre of Kurds in northern Iraq. It said that after the massacre America reduced its military co-operation with Iraq but German firms continued their activities until the Gulf War.
American weapons experts have recently voiced concern that the German Government has permitted Siemens to sell Baghdad at least eight sophisticated medical machines which contain devices that are vital for nuclear weapons. The machines, known as "lithotripters", use ultrasound to destroy kidney stones in patients. However, each machine contains an electronic switch that can be used as a detonator in an atomic bomb, according to US experts. Iraq was reported to have requested an extra 120 switches as "spare parts" during the initial transaction.
The delivery of the machines was approved by the European Commission and the UN because sanctions against Iraq do not apply to medical equipment. Siemens and the German Government have insisted that the machines, which are being used in northern Iraq under a World Health Organisation programme, cannot be used to make nuclear weapons.
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You're barking at the wrong tree.
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