What do you think?
http://youtu.be/x-2VmohG_Pk
Chinese troops are being deployed in a restive, oil-rich region in a far-off continent. What could possibly go wrong?
http://theweek.com/article/index/268...uagmire-abroad
What do you think?
http://youtu.be/x-2VmohG_Pk
Chinese troops are being deployed in a restive, oil-rich region in a far-off continent. What could possibly go wrong?
http://theweek.com/article/index/268...uagmire-abroad
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Could this growing Chinese interest in Africa be the early beginnings of a potential 21st Century "Scramble for Africa" by rising Asian powers in need of cheap resources? Could borders be redrawn with emphasis on interior-to-port accessibility? If Japan does manage to reassert itself militarily (in response to perceived growth in Chinese strength), could Japan join the Chinese in African ventures to secure resources as well as accessing African consumers? Maybe the ROKs? Vietnamese? Indians? Just wild speculation on my part.
Morgan Smiley
"If you can dodge a car, you can dodge a ball". Patches O'Houlihan
The Indians have been competing for influence and access to Africa with China for some time now. Not to many places in West Africa where I couldn't find a Vietnamese restaurant, but I didn't see a large Vietnamese population there. A lot of Lebanese, but then again they seem to be everywhere and relatively successful.
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