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Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

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132 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 23 Mar 19 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.68s | source
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coliveira ◴[23 Mar 19 16:16 UTC] No.19471036[source]▶
China is doing what is a great advancement for the world: integrating east and west, and in the process bringing the long forgotten areas in the middle east into the world trading order. The more investment in the Silk road, the more we will have a robust economic system integrating countries that until now were forgotten by the previous world order.
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1. Gpetrium ◴[23 Mar 19 16:27 UTC] No.19471081[source]▶
The idea looks good on paper, it will be important to keep an eye on the underlying actions that are made to ensure it is not used for nefarious reasons. This part is specially difficult when transparency is lacking.
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2. chibg10 ◴[23 Mar 19 16:49 UTC] No.19471199[source]▶
Right, I don't quite understand why there's so much secrecy around OBOR projects if the CCP really believes these deals are a partly altruistic and fully mutually beneficial agreement. It would seem to be be in their interest to publicize the terms if that were the case.

Especially given the CCP's documented history with bribing foreign leaders to agree to similar deals.

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3. coliveira ◴[23 Mar 19 23:46 UTC] No.19472982[source]▶
Did they bribe the previous US presidents to sign business deals during the last 30 years? I think it is entirely inappropriate to think that briberies are the only reason to do business with China.