Competition for the Panama Canal?
Nov 29, 2014 23:28:30 #
http://panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com/blog/news-from-panama/start-of-construction-of-the-grand-canal-of-nicaragua-announced/
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
Nov 30, 2014 04:24:11 #
Nov 30, 2014 04:52:33 #
Through the decades I've heard a lot of talk about an alternative to the Panama Canal....some as far North as Mexico....none have gone beyond the talk stage, just like this one which is a preliminary project that saw the light of day just last year according to the article.
I don't know how Washington will view the digging of another big trench .....by the Chinese, no less!!!
I know one thing....if this was part of the US nobody would even dream of talking about something like this.....hell we can't even build a pipeline from Canada anymore !
I don't know how Washington will view the digging of another big trench .....by the Chinese, no less!!!
I know one thing....if this was part of the US nobody would even dream of talking about something like this.....hell we can't even build a pipeline from Canada anymore !
Nov 30, 2014 08:28:20 #
I think you're correct in your concern about a potential disaster when salt water is introduced into Lake Nicaragua from both oceans! But then again, you can't see a problem with the canal from China, just saying.
Nov 30, 2014 08:35:26 #
Lots of land to dig up. Recall that the French first tried to dig the Panama Canal and they ran out of money.
Nov 30, 2014 11:23:41 #
Nov 30, 2014 11:27:27 #
Alfresco wrote:
I think you're correct in your concern about a potential disaster when salt water is introduced into Lake Nicaragua from both oceans! But then again, you can't see a problem with the canal from China, just saying.
I see the problem with China. They have been investing more and more into not only Latin America but other parts of the world including the USA. They have and will continue to flex their economic strength. In this article I was more concerned about the ecological situation. :(
Nov 30, 2014 12:45:03 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
Funny, I remember when Japan was buying everything up and building everything and was going to be bigger than the US economy!
What happened?
What happened?
Nov 30, 2014 12:57:03 #
ole sarg wrote:
Funny, I remember when Japan was buying everything up and building everything and was going to be bigger than the US economy!
What happened?
What happened?
Good question. Check the following article out. I just read another article which stated that China has now surpassed the the USA as the world's largest economy.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/the-10-largest-economies-in-the-world/
Nov 30, 2014 17:56:30 #
bcheary wrote:
http://panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com/blog/news-from-panama/start-of-construction-of-the-grand-canal-of-nicaragua-announced/
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
I agree. the ecological consequences are considerable. China has its eyes on maintaing its Western market quick access if Panama canal ever becomes unavailable to them. That is part of the economic cold war going now.
I would ignore economy figures. In absolute terms China's economy is the largest, but its population is at least three times as large as USA's, so in per capita terms China's economy is one third that of USA. They have a long way to go.
Nov 30, 2014 18:09:41 #
bunuweld wrote:
I agree. the ecological consequences are considerable. China has its eyes on maintaing its Western market quick access if Panama canal ever becomes unavailable to them. That is part of the economic cold war going now.
I would ignore economy figures. In absolute terms China's economy is the largest, but its population is at least three times as large as USA's, so in per capita terms China's economy is one third that of USA. They have a long way to go.
I would ignore economy figures. In absolute terms China's economy is the largest, but its population is at least three times as large as USA's, so in per capita terms China's economy is one third that of USA. They have a long way to go.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :-D
Nov 30, 2014 20:09:51 #
wuzfuzzab
Loc: Red Deer, Alberta
bcheary wrote:
http://panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com/blog/news-from-panama/start-of-construction-of-the-grand-canal-of-nicaragua-announced/
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
Personally I think that Nicaragua is facing a huge potential environmental disaster when they breach that huge freshwater lake. I am willing to bet that a lot of money changed hands under the table. La Mordida rules in Latin America. :hunf: :XD: :XD:
Well it is pretty prevalent here also.
Nov 30, 2014 20:16:51 #
I don't think it will be built. China just spent a gazillion "$" in bribes and pre construction on a mammoth- 400 hectors- project (Dragon Mart) just south of Cancun and it has finally been shut down for environmental violations.
Nov 30, 2014 20:34:14 #
wuzfuzzab wrote:
Well it is pretty prevalent here also.
:lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 30, 2014 20:35:35 #
Harvey wrote:
I don't think it will be built. China just spent a gazillion "$" in bribes and pre construction on a mammoth- 400 hectors- project (Dragon Mart) just south of Cancun and it has finally been shut down for environmental violations.
I hope that you are right. If they pursue it, it will be an environmental disaster of epic proportions. :(
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