I'm not even really sure about that @Lucy, because the boom of American manufacturing is something of a myth, really only existed because of major european lock-outs during the second world war. If there's a country that's really capitalizingo n war manufacturing, it's China
@Ken U Belevitt blackwater though. and that one cheney had ties to that i've forgotten the name of. it's less about manufacturers and more about defense contractors.
So smaller nations like Sri Lanka and Laos, and many many others owe so much money to China that they can't pay back. They give back infrastructures to China, yes.
@Jacqueline Hyde That's just it though: scandals like Blackwater don't put money in the government's pockets, that money gets filtered directly into private industry
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