by Jim Ball | May 25, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China
The comparisons between Germany in the 1930’s and China’s Belt and Road and the associated, pimp like dependency and debt trap diplomacy waged against smaller states in 2020, as outlined by Henry Ergas are chilling. It’s almost as if China has lifted the set piece... by Jim Ball | May 25, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China, Random Notes |
It was the New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief and communist Russian lick spittle and fanboy, Walter Duranty who totally under reported and downplayed the cold, calculated and deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932/33 with up to 10 million dead in... by Jim Ball | May 22, 2020 | Belt and Road, Blog, China, Random Notes, Victoria Belt and Road
Where is the Victorian opposition leader, warning that a Liberal government will not honour and in fact terminate the Belt and Road arrangement if elected? You know, just like Dan Andrews did in his exercise of economic vandalism, moral hazard and sovereign risk with... by Jim Ball | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Caronavirus, China, Coronavirus, Random Notes, Trotsky, Uncategorised |
Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky once said that “you may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you”. Actually he said ‘war’, not ‘politics’, but as the 18th century military theorist, Carl Von Clausewitz observed anyway, “war is politics by... by Jim Ball | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Caronavirus, China, Random Notes |
The sanitising of the language around the Chinese, Wuhan virus is extraordinary and straight from the pages of George Orwell where nothing is what it seems and takes the idea of ‘controlling the narrative’ to a totally unprecedented extreme. Much... by Jim Ball | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, China, Coronavirus, Free Trade, Random Notes
Ninety five percent of antibiotics in America are manufactured in China and even Europe’s pharmaceutical derivatives are sourced in China. So what could possibly go wrong? Find out at the cut and paste below. The Coronavirus could be the least of the problems...