No, they will not give the IME Corridor project to
China. It is too big a project for China's standard to undertake.
Remember it is meant to counter the BRI, so it must be so grand in scale
that Xi will fall to his knees in admiration. Such a project is only
reserved for Allies and obedient followers of the USA. Never for China,
Russia, Iran or North Korea to particpate in, just like telling China it
cannot even go near the International Space Station etc.
Perhaps
Japan or South Korea might do the construction. But Japan already seems
to have lost the 'blue prints' and got stuck in India and Vietnam,
asking for help. Lots of blue prints have been reported lost nowadays,
the most serious was the first moon landing blue prints. But, please,
China did not steal that, having been told to stand far away over the
decades in every technological endeavour that the USA and Allies
undertake. South Korea can also try for the project, having a 'Blue
House' occupant who is so 'gung ho' nowadays. Maybe he has the true
'blue' films oops prints.
If the IME Corridor is meant to be
completed within a timeline of say 40 years, maybe India could do it as
well. They did high speed rail construction using slow speed
construction methods, and they obviously like it that way, still
claiming that things are going great guns. Only thing is would Mohammed
bin Salman want to wait 40 years for it, by which time Saudi Arabia may
aleady be criss-crosed by HSR like China and built by China. So, what is
the hurry? Just give it to India.
By the way, have they sat down
to study the details yet, or having no details are still just talking
and having hallucinations about how grand the project is going to be
that China will envy. China's method is working out the details years
ahead before announcing it or even having completed projects before
announcing it. USA's method is announcing it even before looking at the
feasibility and problems to overcome and how to do it. Building across
the Arabian Desert is no walk in the park, with sandstorms, unbearable
heat and shortage of water. But it must work, even in theory, and even
if construction is all carried out up in the air.
Oh, never mind, even if it turns out to be a White elephant. As long as it frightens China, that is all that is to it.
Anonymous
Sleepy eye 'Snake Charmer' Joe Biden is said to be now hosting another Pacific Islands 'charm offensive' in Washington, and you perhaps already guessed it, all to counter China's influence. He is promising infrastructure and internet connectivity, promising undersea cables for those islands. And all this when the USA is facing shutdown due to the debt ceiling. Unbelievable!
ReplyDeleteBut not all Pacific Island leaders are interested in attending the circus. Soloman Islands Prime Minister Mannaseh Sogavare is skipping the event, having had deep ties with Beijing. Smart leader he is, but he will soon be threatened with consequences, which is the norm. He does not want to go to Washington ostensibly to be talked down to, threatened, dictated to and insulted like those African leaders, being given no platform to talk and allowed only five miserable minutes to introduce themselves.
To put it in another way, they will probably be in the USA for a photoshoot, just the same thing that the almost 50 African leaders did a year ago. After having their dose of snake oil dished out by Joe Biden, some chicken wings were thrown, a grand US$350 million (depreciated from the original US$350 billion) which works out to a US$7.5 million dollar digital transformation help for each African country, plus a group photo of them to take home to show they were there to meet the Snake Charmer. Many are reliving the insult they faced, treated like slaves. Oh yes, Africa after all is a 'shithole' as some USA leaders claimed and deserves no better.
After using those Pacific Islands as testing ground for their nuclear experiments decades ago, with nuclear radiation leaks now threatening the region, the USA is so caring that it wants to foster closer links with them. The Africans, after centuries of exploitation by the Whites and deprived of developments and called a 'shithole' by the Whites, are already telling the Whites, please spare us the agony of reliving the past. Please leave Africa for good.
If the Pacific Islanders fall for the 'charm offensive', they really deserve no sympathy and are obviously lagging far behind the Africans in wisdom and mentality. They better remember what happened to the Native American Indians and their fate.
Yes, IME is perhaps the 'pettest' of all the pet projects of Joe Biden.
ReplyDeleteThe other pet projects are the 'Build Back Better' project, the 'Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment' project, the 'Digital Transformation of Africa' project, the now touted as imaginery 'Railroad across the Pacific Ocean' project, and now the infrastructure projects Joe Biden has in mind for the Pacific Islands. Will it be a project involving building railroads joining up those islands I wonder, LOL? Never has a White country so involved in so many global projects after centuries of purposeful neglect. Just hot air perhaps. Funny isn't it?
By the way, another freight train crashing into a SUV, killing six just happened in Plant City, Florida. With all the infrastructure development that Joe Biden is talking about, why is the rail system in the USA full of mishaps lately. Between USA and India, which is the train accident hub of the world I wonder? And Joe Biden and Modi are talking about building the IME outside of both countries. Unbelievable but true!
I cannot wait to hear the game changing good news after the 'charm offensive' meeting in Washington. Those Pacific Island leaders may indeed be charmed, seeing stars in front of their eyes.
"....Those Pacific Island leaders may indeed be charmed, seeing stars in front of their eyes." It is sometimes known as a 'circle jerk' party, and the islander can't wait for Modi's invitation!
ReplyDeleteBuild Back Better, how is that coming along?
ReplyDeleteThis IME will be Build Back Better CECA version. Big talk, no action.
Yindia be arguing on more important issues: Power Point template, font, font size & colour, length of presentation file ....
You would be surprised that some Indians still think China is more backward than them. But then, even in the USA, people are kept from seeing the truth and they believe in all the lies trotted out by the MSM. Strange world!
ReplyDeleteWith all the crumbling infrastructure, I would think it better to call Joe's project as 'Better Build Back' before things become impossible to correct. Like the deficit.
ReplyDeleteThese last comments sound like echoes from msm from the west.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, me thinks too.
ReplyDeleteBoth of you are right. No need for such stuff here. Deleted.
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