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Когда появились новости о разговорах Трампа о Гренландии, все сразу всплеснули руками - да он безумец! Как о таком можно вообще говорить в наш просвещённый век! Ну, поглядим как:
While the American media mocks Trump for Greenland purchase remarks, it misses the strategic motivations behind the move.
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In 2017, Greenland’s prime minister flew to China and asked, as the Journal reported in February of this year, “Chinese state-run banks to finance the new commercial airports, including a big one for one of the smallest capitals on earth, Nuuk, which can now be served only by propeller planes. The bankers were interested, people at the meetings said, so long as a Chinese company constructed the airports.”
А вот что нам докладывало год назад BBC:
How Greenland could become China's Arctic base
China's sales technique in other countries where its companies operate is to offer the kind of infrastructure they badly need: airports, roads, clean water.
The Western powers that once colonised many of them haven't usually stepped in to help, and most of these governments are only too grateful for Chinese aid.
But it comes at a price.
China gets access to each country's raw materials - minerals, metals, wood, fuel, foodstuffs. Still, this doesn't usually mean long-term jobs for local people. Large numbers of Chinese are usually brought in to do the work.
Country after country has discovered that Chinese investment helps China's economy a great deal more than it helps them. And in some places - South Africa is one of them - there are complaints that China's involvement tends to bring greater corruption.
Минералы? Какие такие минералы?
Greenland Minerals said in its June quarter report that the latest work had confirmed Kavenefjeld as: “one of the most significant emerging rare earth projects globally with a large projected output of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium”.
The most important future use of the rare earths at Kavenfjeld is expected to be in electric motors as well as a large number of advanced and strategically sensitive technologies.
И да, американцы не сидели сложа руки:
Then-Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis was not happy and convinced Danish officials to fund the infrastructure, sidelining China. This was an effort by China starting in 2018 and only ending when they officially withdrew in June of this year.
Так что, возможно, интерес Трампа к Гренландии вызван вовсе не безумием, а тем, что Китай уже давно ей заинтересовался?
While the American media mocks Trump for Greenland purchase remarks, it misses the strategic motivations behind the move.
/.../
In 2017, Greenland’s prime minister flew to China and asked, as the Journal reported in February of this year, “Chinese state-run banks to finance the new commercial airports, including a big one for one of the smallest capitals on earth, Nuuk, which can now be served only by propeller planes. The bankers were interested, people at the meetings said, so long as a Chinese company constructed the airports.”
А вот что нам докладывало год назад BBC:
How Greenland could become China's Arctic base
China's sales technique in other countries where its companies operate is to offer the kind of infrastructure they badly need: airports, roads, clean water.
The Western powers that once colonised many of them haven't usually stepped in to help, and most of these governments are only too grateful for Chinese aid.
But it comes at a price.
China gets access to each country's raw materials - minerals, metals, wood, fuel, foodstuffs. Still, this doesn't usually mean long-term jobs for local people. Large numbers of Chinese are usually brought in to do the work.
Country after country has discovered that Chinese investment helps China's economy a great deal more than it helps them. And in some places - South Africa is one of them - there are complaints that China's involvement tends to bring greater corruption.
Минералы? Какие такие минералы?
Greenland Minerals said in its June quarter report that the latest work had confirmed Kavenefjeld as: “one of the most significant emerging rare earth projects globally with a large projected output of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium”.
The most important future use of the rare earths at Kavenfjeld is expected to be in electric motors as well as a large number of advanced and strategically sensitive technologies.
И да, американцы не сидели сложа руки:
Then-Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis was not happy and convinced Danish officials to fund the infrastructure, sidelining China. This was an effort by China starting in 2018 and only ending when they officially withdrew in June of this year.
Так что, возможно, интерес Трампа к Гренландии вызван вовсе не безумием, а тем, что Китай уже давно ей заинтересовался?
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