3:58AM
The Brazil-China axis!
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 3:58AM WORLD NEWS: "Brazil Turns to China to Help Finance Oil Projects: With Credit Markets Tight, President de Silva Hunts for Funding in Beijing, Offering His Hosts Secure Commodity Supplies," by John Lyons, Wall Street Journal, 18 May 2009.
Right under our noses, no less!
This will clearly trigger a war between Brazil and America, will it not. Isn't that one of the ten great-power wars that George Friedman has us waging this century? But is it before we fight Turkey or after we fight the Poles to the death, I can't remember.
Ah well, maybe it's just companies stretched for finance matching up with foreign partners loaded with cash. That might be it, but it sounds so naïve.
Reader Comments (3)
We need to identify policies and implement projects to increase our political and business ties with countries like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. We need to show our friends that they are more important than leftist dictators like Hugo and Fidel.
Neither Bush or Obama seem to have made the right moves, with the exception of Obama and Cuba. But given Obama's accepting of Hugo, I wonder what the Cuban policy is? Is it to bring Cuba into the fold of the free world with free enterprise as the tool to make that happen, or some other policy where liberty and freedom take a second seat to other forms of governance, as in Hugoisum?
Mexico is a country in crisis. The US needs a Mexico Project that shows Mexico how to use rule-of-law instead of corruption, improves business relation with US and allows US citizens to own property and build business that will benefit Mexican citizens right there in Mexico. I'm sure there is much more we could do with Mexico and if properly addressed solve a number of core issues with Mexico at the same time.