OP-ED: US loses wattage to China in Iraq, By Dmitry Shlapentokh, Asia Times, November 13, 2007
As I've said for years now (and yes, it's sad and pathetic to shift statements like this from "months" to "years") in my brief, we would have been far better off subcontracting the Iraq rebuild to China.
Why?
Cheaper and easier to muster the labor, plus it makes China a stakeholder in a postwar in which it fears zero-sum outcomes.
Remember, the SysAdmin function inevitably ends up being more civilian than mil, more international than U.S., and more private-sector driven in funding than ODA-fueled.
(Thanks: Lexington Green)
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Tom, I think there's a dominant category within FDI emerging: CDI, the Chinese component. I wonder what a map of CDI as a percentage of overall FDI would look like...and in what sectors it might be dominant...
Posted by Matthew Garcia | November 27, 2007 9:39 AM