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Current gang in Canberra/Washington would never do a joint infrastructure project with Beijing, so that Chile might as well go directly there.
by pphysch 5y ago
Current gang in Canberra/Washington would never do a joint infrastructure project with Beijing, so that Chile might as well go directly there.
- streamofdigits 5y agoIf they can agree on carbon emissions, they could probably agree on some coordinated infrastructure. (It doesn't actually have to be common, rather coordinated.) I am sure if politically unencumbered engineers were to sit down they would come up with more or less the same topology...
- pphysch 5y agoFor sure. But PRC is the undisputed king of large scale infrastructure development in the 21st century, so that would be tantamount to Washington taking a back seat in a Beijing-driven project. Totally unacceptable optics.