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China has been building Chinese-only gated company towns in Pakistani military properties OK. Now I'm a bit skeptical as well. I mean, the Chinese have been b
by bilbo0s 1y ago
China has been building Chinese-only gated company towns in Pakistani military properties
OK. Now I'm a bit skeptical as well.
I mean, the Chinese have been building Chinese-only gated company towns in [insert global south nation here] military [and everywhere else] properties for a long time now. Not really sure how that translates into Chinese authoritative decision making in matters of wars between nations?
For that you need massive financial underwriting of a military. Far greater than 50%. No disrespect to the Chinese, but I'm sorry, there is no nation in the world where a few gated communities will get you that level of influence. I don't care how important you think you are.
- fooker 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power Usually it is the US influencing small countries and having a say in military decisions. Also coming up next is a full blown Chinese military base in Gwadar, something the USSR broke itself trying to get to. > Far greater than 50%. If you want to go with the stick yes. For the carrot, it's a bit different, you just have to dangle it. If China says jump, Pakistan will ask how high.
- bilbo0s 1y agoSorry. Not buying it. Wayyy too many places to get money these days. It’s a multipolar world. Again, no matter how important you think you are, you’ll need to do a whole lot more than dangle carrots to get that level of influence nowadays. There’s just too many power players for small nations to not play one against the other.