I On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 10:47 AM Charlie via groups.io <charles1848= [email protected]> wrote:
> Roberts: "Chávez reasserted state control over the state oil company." > That is, state ownership does *not* equal state control. It's a plain > truth, isn't it? But the PRC apologists and the obfuscators like Marv shove > it into the dark when the lamp turns to look at state-owned corporations in > China. > I’m tired of the personal attacks Charlie. I don’t know how the other moderators feel. But no doubt some will agree Mark > ---and--- > Roberts: "No country has a larger public external debt as a share of GDP > or of exports or faces higher debt service as a share of exports." His > article avoids mentioning the major buyer of Venezuelan petroleum: China. > Sixty years ago the Soviet Union bought Cuban sugar on fraternal terms > between two socialist countries, but the PRC has dealt with Venezuela on a > basically commercial basis. "Venezuela's debt dates to 2007, the era of > then-President Hugo Chavez, when the country borrowed more than $50 billion > from Beijing under loan-for-oil deals." (Reuters, Aug. 26, 2022) So much > for solidarity of the "Global South," for a "global community of shared > future," yadda yadda. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31335): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31335 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107582765/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
