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ELI5?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
They're gonna accept money from China in exchange for favorable trade deals.
Nice username
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If it amounts to anything, Colombia will get infrastructure projects and we will get salty WAPO opeds
Yes, "tankies" do have a tendency to step in and develop third world nations after ages of languishing under colonialism.
Uncle Bill is worried because it's not the only one doing this
"Go read" the Hudson Institute? RAND? What will the first page of Google bestow upon the next challenger?