Comment Re:Duh? (China, our best student) (Score 1) 315
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man author, John Perkins, tells how this works:
https://youtu.be/yzv9yWDOuko?t...
Big infrastructure projects, employing mostly workers from the originating country, paid for by big loans, with interest rates ensuring that the loans can never be paid back. Country then has to give extremely favorable terms for selling its natural resources, or have a 'revolution'.