WSJ: Trump wants to buy Greenland

[murray t turtle]

this would be a great achievement if he can pull it off!

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Exactly. And it sounds like the Greenland REALTOR maybe green with envy- I don't think a REALTOR /commission should be involved.

 

[d08]

Well to be fair, Africa 1) is more desperate situation than other countries and 2) has very long-standing relationship with China since the 1970's. So it's more understandable that Africa looks more favourably to China's offering.

To me, the reason why Duterte "trusts" China more over Japan is I think personally Duterte sees more potential in China in terms of becoming the next super power so it doesn't hurt to kiss up to China early especially when China is located so close geographically. You don't want to piss off a potential super power with major nuclear arsenals that's located right next door. That I feel is the reason more than anything else.

And what kind of a signal does that send when that superpower just takes your land and you say "let's be friends". To me it only invites more abuse. Soon China might take a whole populated island and claim "it was always part of China".

 

[JSOP]

And what kind of a signal does that send when that superpower just takes your land and you say "let's be friends". To me it only invites more abuse. Soon China might take a whole populated island and claim "it was always part of China".

The signal is we need to be more vigilant in protecting our own economy and be more diligent in developing our economy especially in developing next generation of technology not necessarily artificial intelligence but artificial labour. The only reason why China is becoming so strong is because it has lots of people to provide cheap labour to increase productivity. The West should stop relying on human labour ( that means no reliance on alternative cheap labour countries - that would be just creating another China and no migrants - Might work if you have vast land like US and Canada but for land-challenged countries like Europe that does not work) for economic growth and should instead focus on developing automation technology like Japan and Israel.

 

[vanzandt]

Should have bought it.