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[gingyer]

apparently no Colin
the report said they didn't get anything in return

[Dekan]

I read somewhere recently that theres a league table of corrupt countries/states....reputedly we are in the top twenty. Its nice to know that we are good at something

[Dave13]

Money?? Hm, yes, I remember that. Crinkly, jingly stuff....  but then I got married. 

Barry M

Same here mate I have to ask before I spent now and then its not a lot LOL

[Colin Bishop]

apparently no Colin
the report said they didn't get anything in return

My comment was a bit tongue in cheek but it is true to say thet the Chinese are working their way into a very influential position in many of the African countries and in the process cornering the market in certain rare minerals essential to mainstream manufacturing processes which puts them in a very strong pposition commercially.

Colin

[Dekan]

Colin, The Chinese understand human rights African style..

[gingyer]

Colin, The Chinese understand human rights African style..

I didn't say the chinese were perfect but maybe we should look at the way they do overseas aid

[Jonty]

  You may have gathered from previous posts that I have spent a lot of time in India, and like the country and its people. It does strike me as odd, however, that whilst we give them aid, they have a very substantial foreign aid programme of their own.

[Jonty]

  Actually, Dekan, Britain is number 20 in the list of least corrupt countries. No great distinction, I grant you... And India is placed at 87 in the most corrupt list, which must be a big improvement on the past.

[snowwolflair]

Collin is correct.  There are parts of Africa where Mandarin is standard.

And when the local government wants to open a mining business who do they turn to but the Chinese who built them a railway line or a hospital.

There is no contractural linkage, just an inevitable good will.

[Dekan]

  Actually, Dekan, Britain is number 20 in the list of least corrupt countries. No great distinction, I grant you... And India is placed at 87 in the most corrupt list, which must be a big improvement on the past.

Sorry if I conveyed the wrong impression... that is in deed what I meant.... 20 strikes me as pretty poor for a country thats all ways telling other nations how to behave.

[Colin Bishop]

Who made up the list - the Iranians...? Anybody can say anything and there are still people happy to believe them. Many people will be waking up this morning disappointed that the world didn't come to an end as predicted after all...

Chicanery knows no boundaries.

Colin

[john s 2]

Bit confused here. I understand that Britain still gives foreign aid to China. Yet China can afford to give aid
to other countries. Seems to me we give the money, they get the credit and perks that come from this. John.