12 ms·
s/we have/some of us, actually just a small minority on Twitter, have/
by pinkfoot 7y ago
s/we have/some of us, actually just a small minority on Twitter, have/
- mmsimanga 7y agoTwitter doesn't build power stations. Its pretty hard to miss the ground being cleared as the power station is being built.
- pinkfoot 7y agoWhere I live, Hitachi build the power stations. So we all now also believe the Japanese are colonising Africa? Outside of Twitter 'building complex machines for a fee != colonisation'.
- mmsimanga 7y agoYou missed the part where I said in Africa we have governance challenges. 99 year lease of Sri Lanka Hambantota port is modern day colonization.
- pinkfoot 7y agoJust to be clear, Ski Lanka is not Africa. All debts have collateral. Don't sign up to loans you cannot afford. Any don't vote in governments that do. [And don't stuff up the maintenance of your infrastructure to the point you don't have electricity for 18 hours. It wasn't like that when it was commissioned.] Then you won't need to take deals on onerous conditions. The Swiss don't.
- swsieber 7y ago> Don't sign up to loans you cannot afford. And that's the problem - the Chinese are offering them and people/countries are taking them, in large numbers. That statement also applies to home loans, yet the 2008 crisis. A nice platitude isn't going to prevent people from falling into China's lap.
- pinkfoot 7y agoYip. Still not colonisation.