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Italy Joins China's New Silk Road Project

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132 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 23 Mar 19 13:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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jjcc ◴[23 Mar 19 20:12 UTC] No.19472128[source]▶
There is some information that usually won't show up in BBC but discussed in other places which might worth some attention for HNers:

Some part of the cooperation is on development of Africa which probabley is part of China's current plan or even part of OBOR. We know that Italy is major victim of the wave of iligle immigrants accross the ocean. An inductrialized and stable Africa is also in the interest of Italy. That could explain why Italy is more interested in OBOR than other Eurapian countries.

Does that make sense?

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oh_sigh ◴[23 Mar 19 20:45 UTC] No.19472278[source]▶
Why aren't migrants shipped around proportionately to the various EU countries?
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MagnumOpus ◴[23 Mar 19 20:50 UTC] No.19472302[source]▶
Because (a) borders in Schengen are open so migrants who get shipped can move somewhere else without issue and (b) many EU countries have xenophobic governments at the helm which would prevent such a solution (just like they prevent being a migrant destination by treating them as inhumanly as possible).
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1. caprese ◴[23 Mar 19 21:20 UTC] No.19472417[source]▶
Yeah would like to add that asylum applicants are given very limited work privileges limited to a specific area within a country, where the countries try to distribute the load quite a bit.

But it's also easy to just keep walking to the country you want to be in since all the border controls are gone once you reach schengen area. Few easily avoidable exceptions. Further compounded by all these countries retaining their own asylum protocols, so even if a country is landlocked or access is limited by some other geographical feature, if you are able to show up then you are able to request asylum.