01-03-2019, 02:10 PM
(01-03-2019, 01:29 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: "Debt trap diplomacy" could be regarded as a form of loan sharking.
China is a lender of last resort. That is the role of a loan-shark.
Every polity must ask the consequences of taking out a loan for anything. Is that impressive highway, airport, or seaport really necessary?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.