Is Pres Trump's Trade War Hurting or Helping China?

The Truth Here; Depends On Where You Sit. 

As one of the many small Caribbean countries, T&T is a spectators, a non player.Like every other country large or small we look on helplessly.

But we cannot say we are not in the game, like the pawns and rooks we affect the final outcome.

Most developing countries now owe the Chinese government millions and billions that they have invested in local infrastructure..

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Western countries foundational philosophy , from the perspective of the Chinese, creates  "limited thinking or small mindedness".  Here is why...

The Chinese work on 100 year plans, in the West with 4 or 5 year plans.

In fact, in a democratic system of government requires that  political parties face the polls every for or five years. The result, is that plans change every 4 to 5 years.,

That means that in the space of 20 years a country could concievabley have 2 to 4 National Development plans.  That is the basis of checks and balances.

Compare that to the Chinese 100 year plan.  In their communist system of government the head of the ruling party was guaranteed a 10 year term. Recently that was changed to a life time of leadership.

President Donald Tromp is banging his chest like a wild Orangutan; he is a great deal maker. He is.  saving the America from the Chinese. His weapon of choice are trade tariffs, which in themselves are like trade boomerangs, turning at some point to come back to the sender.

The direct affects of these tariffs is that American suppliers will order less from China because of the higher cost thus directly affecting the Chinese economy.

Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter, Americans; not Chinese.

For the  Chinese it in their favor that the  existing myopic thinking continue.  China is building the next Empire and it includes key countries in the world.

It is said that empires have historically changed every 200 years.

The writing is on the wall for anyone to see, The US, the world super power, now owes the Chinese trillions.

The Chinese have installed themselves in almost every important economy in almost every region of the world. The world owes a lot to China now.

Spectators and Pawns With Questions

For the developing countries already indebted to China is; how will all this affect our country?.

How will this trade war end?

We know when the dollar is affected it hurts the world economy.

What will China do?. Will they capitulate to President Trump's trade tariffs?

This is but a blip in China's progress to build an empire.

Understand China.

The Chinese are purposeful and intentional.

Consider this; for over the last 15 to 20 years China has inserted herself in every country of any significance in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

They did not just stumble on this idea, it is exactly how America and every other super power built their empires.

Trump will get his short term win but China will win in bigger in  the long term.

Want proof, read an article published on June 13, 2019 by China researcher,  Brian Tycangco

                   Here’s how China will emerge stronger from the trade war

After you read that article, ask yourself this question.

What part does countries like Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago play in the 100 year Chinese plan?

The Chinese literally own significant assets in every country, what is the end game?

As a country and region is there any one developing a model of what will actually transpire?

Love to hear some comments, suggestions or recommendations about how we as a people can make it better for the younger emerging generations.

 If we care, we may not be able to stop what is happening, it is way to big for any one of us.

The real question is are we just going to sit and watch the game play out or will we put our head together and figure this thing out?

ON "BLACK" ECONOMIC VIOLENCE

This article is a reprint of an article plucked from an email.  After you read it you will understand why I had to reprint it here.  

It resonates with a previous article I wrote entitled  Is The Chinese Colonizing The Caribbean? and another that ask Why Are The Chinese Spying On Caribbean Children?

By Paul Ifayomi Grant

Have you ever received money from a Chinese person for anything other than them making change for you? No, is the answer I have been receiving when asking this question as part of an informal survey to Black People. The follow up question is, "Have you ever given money to a Chinese person?" The answer invariably is yes. This imbalance of give and take is reflective of the consciousness of Black people and consequently our relationship with ourselves and others. 

There is a reason why every Black Ghetto has a Chinese food restaurant, but there are no Soul Food restaurants in Chinatown. In fact, the most popular Soul Food restaurant in Harlem, New York on 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard is owned and operated by a Chinese family. Again, there are no Soul Food restaurants in Chinatown and there certainly is no Chinese Food restaurant in China town owned and operated by a Black family. If a Black person tried, the business would be shut down, before it started. Why? Economic Violence. 

Every group of people understands practices and strategically utilizes the concept of economic violence, except Black people. In fact the economic violence that we, as Black people, practice is economic violence against ourselves. Economic violence is the art and science of using the exchange of money for goods and/or services as an aspect of ethnic warfare, survival and prosperity. The Chinese will not support a Black business over their own, because they are not interested in ethnic suicide. 

The Chinese are logical, as self preservation is the most basic of human instincts. So not only will a Chinese person not support a Black business over a Chinese business, they take it one step further and plant their business in a Black community and implement plans to take Black people's money. This ideological posture is pure and scientific economic violence. Replace Chinese with any other ethnic group besides Black, and the picture becomes clearer. 

The above is not a condemnation of Chinese, Korean, Arab or white businesses at all. It is a condemnation of Black people who have forgotten The Honorable Marcus Garvey's mantra of "Race First." Every ethnic group has mastered this concept except Black people. It is in my interest to come from a powerful people. Therefore, my interest is committing economic violence on behalf of Black people. 

That means purchasing a Black person's service or product "first" before I purchase any other ethnic group or race's service or product. Have you committed economic violence on your behalf or against yourself today? If you are a Black person reading this, I am sure that you are familiar with the notion of, "I just want the best product or service for my money and a lot of times, Black folks just isn’t up to par." 

My response is, 

1) If that's your attitudinal posture, then do not get mad if people don't patronize your Black business (product or service) for fear of deficiencies. 

2) Since when has the uncleanliness of a Chinese food restaurant stopped you from buying a to-go order of shrimp fried rice, or the messiness of an Arab or Indian corner-store, gas station or bodega stopped you from purchasing those pork rinds you love and a soft drink.

 Have you committed economic violence on your behalf or against yourself today? 

Black people: Due to our lack of economic militarism, we are losing the fight for economic independence. That's why everyone and I mean everyone, "bangs" on Black people. All ethnic groups gain their financial strength in America by economically banging on Black people. This is how white people became wealthy in this world. 

The European transatlantic slave trade of kidnapping millions of Africans as Prisoners of War was the biggest gang bang of all time. Chattel and plantation slavery was a continuation of this policy of economic violence. Since then, we have been left open to economic attack by every ethnic group that makes it to America. 

Nothing has really changed, because the relationship between slave and slave-master is still the same. Tastes, Interests and Values: Stop Eating Pizza, You're not Italian The first step in perpetuating economic violence against a people is to change their tastes, interests and values to the tastes, interests and values of the invading culture. 

Tastes, interests and values are the sole determinative factors in the decision to purchase a service or product. This is extremely important as all products and services spring from a cultural landscape. Here are some extremely basic examples to illustrate my point: 

(1) An overwhelming amount of people in America, purchase turkey on the third week of November, every single year. The turkey is an imperative for a Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving is a white cultural holiday designed to celebrate white conquest and genocide of the native American population, but is masked as a day of family togetherness and thanks. The people who own turkey farms are white poultry farmers. They are the direct economic beneficiaries of the values of this particular cultural holiday. If native American and Black people were the owners of turkey farms, you can bet your last dollar that turkey would not be a requirement of that holiday. White people understand economic violence and under no circumstance would they allow anyone other than whites to benefit from a white holiday. 

(2) This is the same reason why U.S. federal, state and municipal government cars must be American cars. They understand economic violence. Have you committed economic violence on your behalf or against yourself today? 

(3) Selling beef to Hindus won't work. The Hindu religion absolutely forbids the killing of cows as the cow is sacred to them. Therefore selling beef products to this crowd is not economically feasible. 

However, if you are able to convert the Hindus away from their religion into say, Christianity, you would have not just brought a new group of people to the priest or the pastor on Sunday, but a new group of people to McDonalds and Burger King, because their tastes, interests and values concerning cows would have changed.

 A further examination of tastes, interests and values reveal that once you adopt or are coerced into perpetuating the tastes, interests and values of another group of people you will not only be committing economic violence against yourself but you will be committing violence against your health.

 Example 1: In Hawaii, over 50 percent of native adults 40 years old or more were diagnosed with diabetes. The Hawaiians are a Polynesian people who have for centuries flourished on a local diet of vegetables and fruits from their land. After the U.S. invasion and displacement of the Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani, the tastes, values and interests of native Hawaiians were changed to the tastes of white people. Hawaiians began eating Hamburgers, Pizza, etc. and became zombies of American fast foodism and forgot about their traditional foods. Something interesting happened: 

Disease in the form of Diabetes. Diabetes was never a problem for Hawaiians until their tastes were changed. In effect, Hawaiians were funding their Diabetes. A Hawaiian doctor trained in western medicine and traditional healing sciences went on a crusade to save her people from Diabetes. She did not prescribe insulin-controlled by white pharmaceutical companies, which is a band-aid to the real problem, but she prescribed a traditional Hawaiian diet and forbade her patients to eat European made food.

 As her patients ate green leaves, fruits and root food vegetables from the place where they evolved, their diabetes was wiped out completely. Additionally, in this manner, Hawaiian farmers benefit from the purchase of food grown on their own land, thereby restoring economic and physical health simultaneously. Example 2: I was at a supermarket in Miami, Florida buying a yam. Not a sweet potato, but a real yam, brown and hard. The cashier was Black and said, "What's that, a turnip?" I was startled and had a serious epiphany. 

Black people have been so oppressed in America, that we do not even recognize our own ancestral foods. The implications again are self inflicted economic and physical violence (dis-ease).A major disease that affects Black Americans is Sickle Cell Anemia. However, this disease does not affect Black people in Africa nearly as much. 

The reason: The shifting of tastes, interests, and values much like the Hawaiian example. The sickle cell trait is a trait that helps Africans fight off malaria. The sickling of the red blood cell helps prevent the malaria parasite from binding to the cell due to the peculiar shape of a sickled cell and its hemoglobin. Since Black Americans are literally from West Africa, they have this trait just like any other West African. 

The difference is the West African diet contains root foods from the Africans soil like cassava and yam. Studies by Nigerian researcher, Dr. OgiAgbaihave, shown that thiocynate in cassava and yam and their leaves alleviate the symptoms of Sickle Cell Anemia.

Black Americans do not eat cassava or true yams, so Sickle Cell Anemia is rampant. Instead, Black Americans have been forced to develop a taste for everything other than African root food, therefore the dis-ease is present. Disease is defined as imbalance. 

When a person or a people have tastes, interests and values outside of who they really are, all types of imbalances occur such as economic and physical health balances. Recalibrating a Black American diet from chitlins and fried chicken back to a West African diet of plantains, cassava, yams, etc., will create a necessary economic balance by supporting African commodities markets and enriching personal, group economic and physical health simultaneously. 

Have you committed economic violence today? 

The Opium Wars: There is Nothing You Have That We want in China. In studying economic violence, tastes interests and values, a cursory discussion on the Opium Wars is extremely important. Please note that major wars occur due to the addictions of Europeans. 

Today, there is a war in Iraq, due to the European addiction to oil. In the 19th century, the Opium wars between Britain and China were due to the British addiction to tea. The Chinese have an ancient tradition of drinking tea as part of their daily ritual. The British developed this custom due to the travels of many European "explorers" who successfully made it over to Asia. By the 19th century, tea became a staple of the British, particularly the middle class and ruling class. The British imported all of their tea from China. In a short amount of time, there was a huge trade imbalance between Britain and China in favor of China. The British paid China for their tea with gold. 

Soon, the British became nervous as their gold reserves were being depleted. However, the British population's taste for tea was insatiable and there would have been riots if the British population was deprived of their tea. In response to the economic violence that Britain was suffering at the hands of China, British leaders arranged a meeting with Chinese leaders. 

The British wanted to stop trading tea for gold. They told the Chinese that they would trade anything else that Britain produced for the Chinese tea. The Chinese response was laughter as the Chinese retorted, "There is nothing that you have that we want." The British were stunned as they took this as an offense to their way of life and their plans to keep their gold. 

The British went back to Britain and decided to pump opium into China. The opium was to be traded for gold in China, and thereby getting the gold back into British hands. In addition, the British took lands from the Indian subcontinent for two purposes: 1) for growing the poppy plant for opium to facilitate their drug trade and 2) for growing various other plants for tea so that trading tea with China would be obsolete. In fact, today one of the most famous tea names is Ceylon tea. Ceylon is the former British colonial name for the country in the Indian sub-continent now named Sri Lanka.

One day, in 1839, the Chinese seized a ship off of its shores containing tons of opium. The Chinese rightfully seized the ship as opium was illegal in China and anyone caught with opium was given the death penalty. The British declared the Chinese seizure of their ship as an act of war, and hence the initiation of the Opium wars which were from 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Britain and China.

The Chinese have never forgotten the economic war with Europeans and the implications are felt today. Consequently, the Chinese have nuclear weapons, the largest standing army in the world and Europe and America as debtors in trade. Their major strength has been maintaining their own tastes, interests and values and the ability to look at Europeans in the face and say, "There is nothing that you have that we want." Black people, can we say the same? The reason why we have been in trouble as a race for so long is our unrelenting taste for things European.

Remember, African prisoners of war (slaves) were traded for white commodities like European processed rum, spare parts and European textiles.

Have you committed economic violence today?

*Slavery and the Value of Labor: Adam Smith*

Adam Smith was an economic philosopher from England and considered the patron saint of European Capitalist thought. He was also an opponent of the enslavement of Africans in America and Europe. However, he was not opposed to our enslavement for moral or noble reasons. He was opposed to slavery because he thought it was inefficient in the capitalist world. 

He believed Africans should be paid for our labor so that we could buy European goods. That was his sole argument. He didn't like the idea that such a large population could not be consumers because slaves were not allowed the ability to earn money. What does this mean? It means that the only reason why it was acceptable for you and I to not be enslaved is so that we could feed the economic system of white supremacy better and more efficiently. 

And what are Black people now? The biggest one dimensional pure consumers the world has ever seen. The slavery relationship is still the same. If you work a job that pays you ten dollars per hour and you pay $150.00 to Tommy Hilfiger for his jeans, you have effectively given 15 hours of your labor to Tommy Hilfiger. 

You worked 15 hours for him. When are you going to work for yourself and your people, by purchasing Black goods and services with your labor hours? Tommy Hilfiger and company don't even have to whip us anymore to turn over our labor to him. He is still economically violent, and we are still bleeding. Lesson: In your economic life, if you are not buying from your own people first, then you are committing suicide on many levels and enlisting for slavery and zombification. 

Buy Black with no apology and if you have to buy from others, try to make sure it's a bootleg. Never pay full price for anything from others-especially those who have historically and continue to benefit from your underdevelopment. For in fact, our relationship is dialectical to our oppressors.

Their development is dependent on our underdevelopment. Have you committed economic violence /self-hate today?

Why Are The Chinese Spying On Caribbean Children?

This Article From Caribbean News Now

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Following several articles previously published on the issue of spyware programs hidden in computers supplied to Caribbean governments and agencies by foreign governments or companies, an amateur radio organisation in Trinidad and Tobago has tested Chinese-supplied computers and confirmed the presence of such malicious software.

In a letter on Saturday to the president of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA), Julien Dedier, chairman of the board of directors of the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio League (TTARL) stated that TTARL’s intelligence group has investigated and tested of several of the computers given to schoolchildren in Trinidad and Tobago by the government during the period 2012 to 2014.

“In layman’s language, the children are being spied upon and at the same time being used as gateway for spying purposes. The compromised computers were sending back information via a backdoor protocol, which is normally used by government spy agencies around the world,” Dedier explained.

He said that his own daughter, who attends a government secondary school, had a computer given to her that was compromised by spyware, something that is illegal in Trinidad and Tobago under the country’s Interception of Communication Act.

Students entering Form One at government schools in Trinidad and Tobago are entitled to a brand new laptop computer with preinstalled and configured software and, in 2011, the government switched from Hewlett Packard (HP) to Lenovo computers from China at a concessionary price. 

Furthermore, Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh revealed last year that 3,300 of the latest purchase of 21,500 Lenovo Thinkpad laptops by the People’s Partnership government were to be shipped to Saint Lucia as part of a government-to-government agreement. 

According to Gopeesingh, the 3,300 laptops would be distributed to fourth form students in Saint Lucia, the cost to be repaid at some point by the government of Saint Lucia.

As at the end of 2013, some 70,000 laptops have been distributed to secondary school students in Trinidad and Tobago from Form One to Form Four. Gopeesingh said that all principals at primary and secondary school levels and school supervisors have also received laptops. 

Gopeesingh said that Trinidad and Tobago’s laptop programme had ranked the country among top countries integrating information technology (IT) with education. 

However, British and Australian intelligence services have in the meantime discovered that malicious Lenovo circuitry modifications, in addition to other inserted hardware exploits, allow a third party to access a device remotely without the user's knowledge.

Is The Chinese Colonizing The Caribbean?

China's Expansionist Strategy Portends Economic Slavery For Future Caribbean Children

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I am no racist. People who live their lives based on race are controlled by an instinctive tribal desire to be superior.  This dysfunction can usually be observed in people who personally or groups have no other redeeming qualities as human beings, so they hang on to what they did not choose.   My spirit tasted racism while living in the Southern United States, 

I could still remember its bitterness even though it was many years ago.  My Grandmother used to say that good medicine taste bitter; it will either heal or kill you.  It healed me.  Not instantly, but over time I began to understand that the human race is evolving not contracting.  The world, our universe is a living organism; life manifests itself in a variety of forms.   

My religious beliefs are in sync with my moral beliefs, as such; I have been a member of the Unity Church which started in the United States by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore earlier in this century.  This New Age thought movement emphasizes the spiritual quality in every man no matter his religion, race, culture or gender. I'm married to a Filipina, for love not money and certainly not to make any statement about race. That's my confession.  Why do I think I need to confess?

Because, by establishing that fact up front to you I am able to justify what I have to say about Chinese people.  If I did not, it would be easy to think that I am just being racist.  Instead, I would prefer any other label; i.e.  regional supporter, social activist or even a nationalist but never a racist.    

You May Be Wondering The Same Thing

These observations I share with you are all personal gathered from reports on regional and world events.  This is not international politics; rather it can be considered grass root observations  with respect to a perceived Chinese plan for world domination.In a previous post I was less delicate with the headline.  I think that maybe I was just confused, trying to understand what was happening.  The post was entitle What The Hell Does The Chinese Want In The Caribbean

There is absolutely nothing wrong with these plans because at various points in history, different dominant cultures have ruled the world; Spain, France, Britain, and currently the United States hold sway on the way issues are handled globally.  The dominant country influences the language most of the world speaks, the currency that all others are pegged to and most importantly the measure of basic human freedom we enjoy.  We should tread very carefully when these basic rights to pursue happiness can be drastically curtailed. 

What Do We Know?

We fear what we don’t know and we don’t know the Chinese.  That is not entirely true, fact is that it’s what we do know scares us.  We know that China is no respecter of human rights.  Tienanmen Square proved it.  If a government can violently suppress dissenting voices at home says a lot.  What do you think their reaction would be to Blacks and Indians in little islands in the Caribbean?   Both you and I know that Caribbean people can be dominantly passive.    

We also know that China is in search of natural resources and land necessary to sustain their bulging population.  China is actively in dispute with almost every one of their neighbors for land space, Taiwan being most notable but also Japan, the Philippines, and even India.  

You may or may not know that the Chinese do not prepare short term plans like the West.  For Westerners, a five year projection is a long term plan.  Read between the lines of this Chinese proverb;

“If you plan for one year; plant rice, if you plan for ten years; plant trees, if you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.” 

What is becoming increasingly apparent is that the Chinese have decided to plant men.  They have established China Towns in almost every major city in the Western and Eastern Hemisphere.  A Chinese census revealed that the population of China excluding, Hong Kong and Macau (former British Territories) stood at 1,308,912,829 in 2010.  In words it translates to; one billion, three hundred eight million, nine hundred and twelve hundred thousand, eight hundred and twenty nine people.  

You Should Be Concerned 

Each person having the potential become a seed or host for another Chinese baby; the Chinese  one-child law is only relevant if they lived in China.   More important, to the Western countries, is the Chinese dismal record on human rights.  Almost every accepted aspect of the desired quality of human life they have disrespected or blatantly ignored.  For example, International social agencies are unable to document the precise number of annual executions that occur in China.   

The Chinese have gone on record as limiting free speech and have been known to torture and humiliate many of their social activists and people labeled as dissidents.  These issues make Western and probably many Eastern countries uneasy and suspicious about what China can do. 

Why should we be concerned about the Chinese now?   

 The truth is that this silent invasion of the Chinese did not begin yesterday.  Their plan was put in place probably before you were born and today sprouts have begun to bud.  For example, there are very few countries of any significance where you will NOT find Chinese people.  It is a well known fact now that economically China will surpass the US soon and in fact some major banks, none in the US, have begun to recognize the yen as the basis for trade.   

More recently, they have adopted an aggressive expansionist posture, courting nations globally, offering to develop the country’s infrastructure, and partnering in any project that the country will allow.  The offer is usually accompanied by a request for exchange of concessionary natural resources and sometimes as outright loans to the target countries.  

Heads up, this is important.

 

In Trinidad and Tobago, the population has been 1.3 million for the last 10 -15 years, maybe that count is maintained by the right number of birth and deaths.   Our primary resource is oil, Trinidad boast of the richest reserve in the Caribbean and the economy is presently on a high.  In the last decade or so, because of the large oil reserves discovered, this country has become a magnet for investors and internationally politically significant.   

Recently we, the Caribbean people had two state visits in the space of two weeks one, the VP of the US and the other by the President of China.  If you believe that lightening strikes one place twice in two weeks, then you also believe in magic.  It was not a coincidence that both countries suddenly felt a compassion for two little rocks in the Caribbean.  Trinidad and Tobago is considered an emerging economy meaning that we are not yet developed, honestly, that is the truth; we are a long way from being developed.  Is it possible that the two superpowers see some value in courting the existing governments of the Caribbean?   It’s all big international politics with issues that are too complicated to decipher but let’s simplify it for a moment. 

Neighborly Visits

Imagine you live in a community, you have what you can consider a decent piece of property and you are self sufficient.  Two of your rich neighbors from an entirely different community come to your house and offer to provide security for you.  One promises that if there is any conflict here, we can have security guards stationed in the house, with your permission, of course.  The other neighbor says that he will take care of your family’s health care.  He will give you the money to add some furniture and new appliances for the house and maybe do some renovations.  He also has enough people to do the job so your family will not really have to get involved in the construction.  The question is; what will you do?  Will you allow your neighbor to buy the furniture for your house?  There is no need to send and answer to that question.  Who would?  

I will not go into details on what the Americans or the Chinese offered Caribbean. My focus is on the Caribbean’s government reaction.  Less than two weeks after the Chinese President left Trinidad, the T&T governments’ applied for the promised funds.  The sum being in the neighborhood of $822 million TTD, the government immediately announced plans for infrastructural improvements such as a hospital, stadium, and university.    

Consider The Future Generations

That is a debt that our children and our children’s children will have to repay.  Trinidad and Tobago and all the other Caribbean islands that choose to ingratiate themselves to the Chinese to fill their coffers are putting a huge obligation on the country without asking the people in a referendum.  

The Chinese know this.  They also know that anyone with a position in our government now will not be there in 5 years.   

The fact is, that the Chinese are not stupid, they are not lending money to the present government administration; they are lending it to the country.  They do not care who is in power, one way or the other someone will be obligated to pay in cash or kind.  Reminds me of stickers on cars in North Carolina back in the early 90s, they read: “Ass, grass or gas; everybody pays”.   The Chinese is on a path to return us to slavery by way of economic colonialism.

Greed and Stupidity?

The writing has begun to appear on the wall.  Already, there is talk of giving permission to a huge Chinese company to develop a dry dock in parts of the island.  That’s permission to open a virtual side door where Trinidad and Tobago will open to the Chinese world.  Is Trinidad stupid? 

The Caribbean, as an entity, should not continue to be blinded by materialism and a few million dollars that will eventually place an unbearable burden on its future generations.  

 Before their respective governments stick out their greedy hands to grab concessions, especially as in the case of Trinidad and Tobago where there is uncontrolled corruption and obvious malfeasance.  In the case of the Chinese advances, it may be too late; however, there’s a lesson to be learned here.  Learn from the Chinese, that as a region, each country should map out a minimum of a 20 year plan for economic, infrastructural and social development.    

At a minimum they need to put the machinery in place for long term debt repayment and restitution of the moneys “gifted” to each nation.  This refers not only to gifts from the Chinese but from America, India or the British.  It will not affect us now but if we care about the future for our children we will begin to sit up and pay attention.    

The burning question for each of us is; what can we, as citizens of the Caribbean do?