28 Replies to “If Something Cannot Go On Forever”

    1. 25 miles was far enough for China to secure another port in the Mediterranean. This one’s not part of NATO so it’ll be the PLA
      Navy’s base.

      1. Russia risked world war and NATO intervention when they seized Crimea and a convenient access to the Mediterranean. China did it with a simple, one-sided, financial transaction.

        I guess the Chinese ARE smarter than all us greedy, short-term planning, self-gratifying, round eyes.

        1. The Ukrainian mess exists because the US (Amb. Nuland) fomented a coup d’etat against Yanukovich when he opted for a Russian loan on easy terms over a EU loan on hard terms. Yanukovich was the last democratically elected president of Ukraine.

          There was zero risk of war with NATO. There still is. Russia was already in Crimea (for hundreds of years), and had the naval base at Sevastopol, by treaty. Moreover, Crimea is about 90% ethnic Russian, and they voted to join Russia.

          As to convenient access to the Mediterranean, please look a a map. The Crimea does not provide any access to the Mediterranean Sea. Turkey still controls the Bosporus/Dardanelles, and the Montreux Convention controls military passage from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.

          War will happen in Europe only if the US/NATO starts it. Russia will lie low until then. One way to start the war is to take Ukraine into NATO. If that happens, Russia will occupy Ukraine and the Baltic states right up to the Polish border. It will also take the ethnic Russian half of Moldova.

  3. Oh, man. That’s a shame.
    I was in Montenegro (Crna Gora) in October 2019; it’s a beautiful country, with great people, but very mountainous with a lot of underdeveloped infrastructure.

  4. This is nothing but China expanding their territory. Build something which a country cannot afford by indebting it to the point of collapse and default on the Chinese very generous loan.

    The country defaults and China owns the land.

    Africa is now being taken over by China. Europe is on its way, as the social programs for all the new immigrants who are enslaving the taxpayers and not contributing to positive GDP numbers. The infrastructure is being neglected and not funded properly and will soon require huge loans which China will supply.

    Rinse and repeat!!

    China has been working the useful idiots for a long time.

    Coming to a North America city near you…if Justin has his way with the post-national state.

    1. Great comment. You should add that the CCP give loans for non-performing (or under-performing) assets, and then try to take performing assets as payments in the default. You mentioned Africa, right-o, though it looks like Kenya may have out flanked the Chinese there on the port. https://youtu.be/Dk4vc3DfNHY

    2. Glacierman

      Montenegrans have very important things to do, like all serbs, they need to fight the evil croates

  6. Unless it’s is in Quebec, Canada doesn’t have to worry. No infrastructure project outside Quebec ever gets approved.

  7. As a university prof, I have had it with chinese students. Almost every one of the cheat on exams and they feel it is their right. Most of them cheated to get into US universities by hiring someone to take the SAT/ACT/GMAT/GRE for them.
    They are extremely rude and almost never engage in class participation. Then they expect me to write them letters of recommendation to get into graduate school or to get jobs. Often they will ask for a letter after they have only taken my class for a few weeks. When I tell them they need to have at least one completed class with me before I will write them a recc, they get angry.

    Moreover, very few of them interact with the American students nor with the foreign students from other countries. They do not enrich the campus life at all.

    1. But their government pays your employer, that money pays for your salary and benefits.

      1. In many Asian countries, one has to write entrance exams in order to gain admittance to university. Those are often one-shot occasions, so if they don’t pass, it’s off to places like my former employer.

        But, a university degree is held in high esteem in countries like China, though what that degree is in is of lesser importance. It’s the image, the esteem, and associated social status associated with one that they seek.

        If one washed out in the entrance exams for, say, the technical university in Nanjing, one can still redeem one’s reputation by earning that degree at a foreign institution. The result is that we’re not necessarily getting China’s best and brightest, but, instead, its academic rejects and idiot princelings. Many of them will return to their homeland to become civil servants, CCP officials, and executives in government-owned companies.

      2. Wow, I hope you’re wrong. If you are correct – and you probably are – they are learning that our recent college grads wouldn’t be able to defend a saucer of milk from an attack of kittens.

    3. As a university prof, I have had it with chinese students. Almost every one of the cheat on exams and they feel it is their right.

      I had exactly the same thought as you while I was finishing my Ph. D. more than 20 years ago. I saw the same thing going on. A certain graduate student and I were teaching assistants for a certain course and I saw how she did the work of her friends.

      Had I reported it, which I should have, it would have been me that would have been in trouble.

      But what you mentioned isn’t just restricted to students from the PRC. When I started teaching at Armpit College in the late 1980s, I saw almost exactly the same sort of thing going on with a group of foreign-born students, who were from a different country. They displayed the same tendency to cheat on exams as well as the same arrogance in which they claimed that it was their right.

      Of those that group I had, only one interacted with those outside of their ethnicity, but he was older and, having lived through a war in his home country, much wiser. He was, perhaps, the only one that the Canadian students respected, partly because he aced his courses by working for his grades.

      1. By the way that graduate student I referred to? She’s now a tenured professor at a certain eastern Canadian university. The less said about how I think she achieved that, the better.

    5. They don’t enrich college life? Meh. The Admin. couldn’t care le$$. They are enriched in the way that counts.

  9. When we travelled to South America in December 2018, we stopped and did quick bus tour of Costa Rica. Our tour guide was bragging about China building a road from Puente Arenas to the port on the Gulf of Mexico. All I could think is that Costa Rica was being played by China.

  10. I have worked with 4 chinese PHD’s, and one of those twice, and no problems with any of them. In fact 2 of those had no problem deferring to me when crunch time came!

  11. L – “Think tanks, academics, and political operators in the West and Africa have long feared that BRI accounts for China’s first steps into becoming a colonial power.”

    You can have nation-states or return to an age of empires. Choose carefully, the leftovers
    are in the pocket of the Imperial Empire of the C.C.P. . Canada is already, in effect, a colony of
    China, ask the two Michaels what they think.

    The too generous loan that your corrupt gov’t. can’t payback. China’s playing that game all over the world or at least with the most naive leaders that money can buy.

  13. My guess is that there will be a Chinese military naval base in Montenegro very soon.

  14. So? Montenegro should just tell the Chinese to pound sand. Declare the entire bid and contract process corrupt, try and jail (in the all-expenses paid beach resort of their choice) the Montenegrin government officials responsible.

    What are the Chi-Coms going to do? Send in the marines?

  15. “…restructuring the debt”. Hah.

    So, they own Piraeus, and now they’ll own a Balkan beachhead entirely. I would like to draw one’s attention to the parable of the Trojan Horse, and how easy it would be to ship in entire divisions under a controlled cover like this.

    That said, land wars in the Balkans tend not to go very well, but it’s an “easy” land route into Europe that doesn’t go through Russia, and provides locations for air/missile bases for getting more directly at Europe in much shorter time-frames.

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