>>2365800It' also only going after specifically those who have profited and seems relatively localised.
From only reading the article i suspect the BBC is making hay out of …the grass. or whatever the english phrase is.
>>2365496It’s because the mods got a lot of redditors from r/ultraleft to start posting here recently for some reason.
They have been shitting up every thread for like a month now
>>2366109>I deepthroat the boot of anticommunist proapganda! Why wouldn't I oppose ML if I believe everything they feed me?!So, here's this video from plebbit. In regards to a propaganda piece, which was spread by all the random media outlets which hate China with a passion. There's a section in the video where the propagandist, when confronted with factual evidence that they spew bullshit, just doubled down and said something like "so what if the bench I used for the article showed an art installation in Germany?! It happens in real life in China!"
This kind of shit is what anticommunist is built upon. This is a willful, informed lie in a service of a goal of hating communism. If you track down Holodomor, for example,
https://www.garethjones.org/tottlefraud.pdf you learn very quickly that this was a similar lie produced by a similarly idealistic propagandists who hated USSR with a passion, willing to commit fraud just for the sake of painting USSR in black color. And no, there is no archival evidence of Holodomor, it was checked for the last 35 years tirelessly, repeatedly. No evidence was found
So, why exactly are you opposing MLs? Which totally real not imagined crime of communism are you going to quote?
https://archive.ph/jw4sM>China is quietly supplanting Russia as Cuba's main benefactor>JATIBONICO, Cuba, June 30 (Reuters) - Hours over rutted roads inland from Havana, the small Cuban city of Jatibonico is a snapshot of late 19th-century living, its streets crowded with horse-drawn carriages and lacking power much of the day and night.>The town’s decrepit sugar mill - once the country's largest - sits idle, lacking the parts, electricity, and fuel it needs to operate.>Two years ago a Russian company, Progress Agro, announced it would import machinery, fertilizer, and know-how to revitalize the mill, which once employed 2,000 people.>"When are the (Russians) coming? That's all anybody talks about," said Carlos Tirado Pino, 58, a mill maintenance worker among the few to retain his post.>Meanwhile, just outside town and out of sight, three bulldozers clear an abandoned cane field to prepare for the installation of a Chinese-financed solar park that will deliver 21 MW of electricity - one of 55 similarly sized such solar parks underwritten by China across Cuba this year.>Cuba is in desperate need of help. Shortages of food, fuel and medicine, grueling hours-long blackouts and plunging tourism and exports - combined with renewed U.S. sanctions under the second Trump administration - have devastated its economy.>A Reuters review of various sites on the ground suggests that where many of Russia's most recent promises have fizzled, China has discreetly stepped up to fill the void, pushing ahead with a number of critically-timed projects aimed at helping Cuba salvage its economy.>Cuba joined China's Belt and Road Initiative in 2018, and China has since invested in several strategic infrastructure projects on the island, including major projects in transportation, port infrastructure and telecoms, while Russia, mired in a war in Ukraine and leery of lending more money to crisis-racked Cuba, has faded as a historic partner.>"Russia's promises have always been bigger than its performance," said William LeoGrande, a professor of Latin American politics at American University. "If China is now stepping up its assistance in light of Cuba's desperate conditions, that could prove to be a real lifeline.">Neither the Russian nor Chinese embassies in Havana responded to a request for comment.>CHINA DELIVERS>The solar park project positions China as a pivotal partner for Cuba at a time of nearly unprecedented crisis: the country's national grid has collapsed four times in the past year alone, leaving millions in the dark and shuttering schools and businesses.>On February 21, Cuba inaugurated a solar park in Cotorro, outside the capital, in a ceremony that included China's ambassador to Havana, Hua Xin and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who lauded the project in a statement as a "collaboration from our sister Republic China.">The fine print of the agreements between Russia and China and longtime ally Cuba remain largely confidential, making it difficult to discern how either country operates in Cuba, through private companies or via public financing and how the Cuban government might be repaying them.>Since then, at least another eight have come online, according to grid operator UNE, churning out nearly 400 MW of sun-fueled energy together with existing parks - about a third of the mid-day deficit.>Officials at the February event announced China was participating in a project to modernize Cuba's entire electrical grid, with 55 solar parks to be built in 2025, and another 37 by 2028, for a total of 2,000 MW - a massive undertaking that, when complete, would represent nearly two-thirds of present-day demand.>The port of Mariel - Cuba's main shipping center just west of Havana - saw traffic from China begin to tick up in August of 2024, according to shipping data and two foreign businessmen who declined to give their names for this story.>Ships arriving last year from Shanghai, Tianjin and other prominent Chinese ports carried solar panels, steel, tools and parts. The "kits" came complete with fuel for overland transport to assure the panels would make it to their destinations, the sources said.>The arrival of Chinese ships is being felt across the Cuban countryside, as tractor trailers with Chinese markings rumble across pot-holed roads to reach far-flung destinations like Jatibonico.>Truck driver Noel Gonzalez, who on a recent morning delivered a load of gravel fill to the solar park site on the city's outskirts, said he was both amazed and grateful for the Chinese diligence.>"The Chinese (workers) come and periodically check every liter of petroleum, every route we take," Gonzalez said.>Fulton Armstrong, a former U.S. National Intelligence Officer for Latin America, called China’s investments a "big benefit" but warned they won’t be enough to overcome the Trump administration’s renewed sanctions on the island.>“Havana can’t bank on either Russia or China coming in with magic pills," he said. "Only massive amounts of Chinese trade and assistance could pull the island through – and that just doesn’t seem plausible.">China's strategic investments in Cuba coincide with U.S. accusations that China is installing “spy bases” on the nearby Caribbean Island, though Cuba and China have denied the allegations. >>2363065Are you implying that criticizing the way someone does something is the same as saying it shouldn't be done?
I hope that's not what you did here.
>Kabul (TDI): The Taliban-led Afghan government has officially canceled a major oil extraction contract with a Chinese firm, citing repeated breaches of the agreement.
>The deal was signed between the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and the China-based Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co, Ltd. (CAPEIC) in January 2023, was terminated this week after the company failed to meet investment deadlines and also violated multiple clauses.
>The 25-year agreement, which was previously celebrated as the largest foreign investment since the Taliban’s return to power, focused on oil exploration in the Amu Darya basin, covering the provinces of Sar-e-Pul, Jowzjan, and Faryab.
>The Chinese company had committed to investing $540 million over the first three years and planned to extract up to 1,000 tons of oil daily. As part of the agreement, Afghanistan was to receive 20% of the extracted oil, with a gradual increase to 75% with time, and around 3,000 local jobs were promised to the Afghani’s.OH NONONONO XIBROS…
https://thediplomaticinsight.com/taliban-cancels-540-million-oil-deal-with-china/ >>2369985the way other countries trade with cuba: by not using the western system for international payments. I imagine china has established a parallel system so chinese banks can receive payments from cuba and thus enable chinese companies to do business there
another way to bypass sanctions would be to trade products and services directly without using currencies at all - often done through state mediation because it would be hard for an energy company to handle a payment in sugarcane. this way it stays "off the books" of the western banking system
>>2369988>>2369999>>2369998Can't you people do
any reading when faced with things you do not know? Do you have to default to assoooooming and posturing like you have a clue what you're talking about?
You people give me a fucking headache. Fucking midwit site i swear to god.
>>2370007there's no need to throw a tantrum. your screenshot merely says its legal for some countries to trade with Cuba, which it is, but every company doing business there has to factor in the risk of one day getting punished. the american market will always be prioritized for this reason. I realize any punishment America decides to do will be illegal but remember, they've never lost an investor-state dispute settlement, they'll win 100% of the time
>>2369985China likes to sidestep the western financial system by bartering, they did that with Iran, trading oil for gold, infrastructure or services
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