Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

That only means that the US DOES rely on economic hitmen, it doesn't necessarily mean China does NOT have economic hitmen.

umm... OBOR could the Chinese version of IMF and World bank, who knows?

Please don't start doing nationalistic flamewar again on HN. I realize it's hard to resist, when other people are posting provocative comments. But taking the thread further in the low-information, high-agitation direction is exactly the wrong thing to do here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The World Bank already exists and China was the second largest borrower from it between 2013-2018. Read that again, it's not a mistake. At a time when China was booming and loaning out money on the OBOR, they were simultaneously the second largest borrower from the World Bank. So what are they really doing with OBOR?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-12/china-s-t...

Agreed Sir! but why political threads are allowed on HN in the first place? What is Hacking in it? I Just pointed them out to read Jhon Perkins book before painting a rosy picture of the West, the book was written by another American.

I'd request HN team to flag all such threads at first place. I visit HN to learn about Tech, Biz and STEM related, not about politics. Thanks.

The mandate of HN is to gratify intellectual curiosity. Some stories that do that have political overlap. There's no way around it.

I wrote a bunch about that here if anyone wants more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.