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2020-08-07 India-Pakistan

Pakistain Borrows $1 Billion from Chinese Peter To Pay Back $1 Billion Saudi Paul

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Posted by Fred 2020-08-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top
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#1 It fits with the new de facto alliance of China, Pakistan and Iran.

Posted by 3dc 2020-08-07 00:31|| 2020-08-07 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Headline in a few years: China Repossess Pakistan. No One Cares.

Posted by Hupinens Juling5588 2020-08-07 01:44|| 2020-08-07 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Whenever large sums move around you can count on there being someone in the middle that's skimming off the top.

Posted by AlanC 2020-08-07 07:17|| 2020-08-07 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Skimming

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-07 08:25|| 2020-08-07 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 China, Pakistan & Iran, huh? I thought China was supposed to be smart (not like everybody says... like dumb). Pak I can at least understand from the point of surrounding mutual-enemy India, but Iran?

Posted by Spot 2020-08-07 08:50|| 2020-08-07 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Oil, and to poke the US

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-07 09:12|| 2020-08-07 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Chinese folks WILL extract (and/or extort) interest. They don't ascribe to the traditional mooselimb lending policies.

And they'll act like loan sharks, complete with the nifty knee-capping, only on a grander scale.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-07 09:55|| 2020-08-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Making a deal with the devil and you get what you pay for: financial hell to pay.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-08-07 10:40|| 2020-08-07 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Makes you wonder if the Saudis wanted to take some of their collateral home, i.e. the nukes that SA paid Pak to develop.
?

Posted by ed in texas 2020-08-07 11:54|| 2020-08-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 #2: Headline a year after that: China repossesses Pakistan, racked with regret.

Posted by Tom 2020-08-07 16:09|| 2020-08-07 16:09|| Front Page Top

#11 China repossesses Pakistan, racked with regret.

They can't possibly do worse that the current owners.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-07 19:29|| 2020-08-07 19:29|| Front Page Top

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