Turkey stays away from China’s Belt and Road summit citing debt-trap diplomacy and Uighur concerns

[Novice09]

No they won't. They don't even notice it when some peaceful monk visit South Tibet, Oops, Arunachal Pradesh. LOL

You have rattled THE CAGE...

BRI, is anything but Marshall Plan I guess. The difference, almost all of the countries part of the BRI initiative had suppressed or censored the details of Aid/Loan from their own public as part of this program from China. Pakistan is just one classic example. And some loans are even disbursed at higher Interest rates than International practices.

Chinese project loans at high interest rates - Sri-Lanka

$1bn China Exim Bank loan conditions too stringent - Zimbabwe

Dr Mahathir tells the Philippines: ‘Be very careful’ with China

FYI, all the above are international news sources from the respective countries. So, it's just not us.

Pakistan is going to be a CASE STUDY...

 

[Wa Muhammada]

Turkey stays away from China’s Belt and Road summit citing debt-trap diplomacy and Uighur concerns

By bne IntelliNews April 25, 2019

Claiming wariness of debt-trap diplomacy, Turkey has opted to not attend China’s three-day Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum that started on April 25.

Intended to promote Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “project of the century” to deploy modern infrastructure to revive ancient ‘Silk Road’ trading routes between Asia and Europe—as well as build new links in the Middle East, Africa, and South America—the summit will draw ire from critics who see it as an attempt at cementing Chinese influence around the world by financially binding countries to Beijing.

Turkey is among the countries that are missing this second such BRI summit, having attended the first. Turkish officials have communicated that both their rejection of debt-trap diplomacy and the diplomatic row between Ankara and Beijing over China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, are two key reasons behind their non-attendance.

In late March, the arrest of four Turkish executives in China for tax evasion led to speculation that Beijing was firing a shot across Ankara’s bows to warn the Turks of the economic price they would pay if they kept up their stinging criticism of the Chinese crackdown on the Turkic peoples of Xinjiang. Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily Newsreported widespread panic broke out among Turkish attendees at the Xiamen International Stone Fair after news of the arrests, with businesspeople grabbing any flight they could out of mainland China for fear that they might be detained next. One attendee reportedly vowed never to return to China, saying he was lucky to find a place on the first plane out.

Other absentees from the BRI summit are Poland, Spain, Fiji, Sri Lanka, and Argentina, according to the Eurasia Group.

Generating “legitimacy”
“The overall purpose of the BRI is to generate legitimacy for the Chinese leadership and the Chinese Communist Party more broadly,” Thomas Eder, a research associate at the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies, was quoted as saying by the Guardian.

“Such prestige is bolstered by every government signing a BRI memorandum of understanding and every head of government attending a grand BRI summit in Beijing. These countries allow Xi Jinping to then tell Chinese citizens that the entire world is endorsing his policies and that he is the one to have put China firmly back at the centre of the global stage.”

The event is to be attended by 37 leaders as well as top ministers, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte (Italy has become the first G7 nation to endorse the BRI), UK chancellor Philip Hammond, Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan and the heads of state of the 10 Asean (Association of South-east Asian Nations) states. The US is reportedly sending low-level delegates, while China’s arch-rival India is not attending.


https://www.intellinews.com/turkey-stays-away-from-china-s-belt-and-road-summit-citing-debt-trap-diplomacy-and-uighur-concerns-160249/

My respect for Erdogan and Turkey goes up every day. May Allah ta’ala give them more respect. Kudos for sticking up for our fellow Uighur muslims.

China stooped really low by arresting Turkish businessmen....that’s just childish. The Turks should take their business to Vietnam which is on the up and cheaper.

 

[艹艹艹]

 

[Wa Muhammada]

Good! Armenia will be our grand partner instead. We will build Armenia to be a regional power.

Turkey should do the same with Taiwan

 

[艹艹艹]

Turkey should do the same with Taiwan

good luck

 

[Mista]

anyone can walk into India, sri lanka & vietnam and see the good & bad. is that possible for north korea ?



north korea was not subject to any "sanctions" prior to 1994



Look at the satellite map. there are no lights outside of Pyongyang
Pyongyang population is 3 million. North Korea's population is 25 million

Is North Korea better than Sri Lanka ?

@HeinzG @Godman

if you can have a logical explanation for the darkness in North Korea I am all ears

If you look at Beijing/Shanghai, they have more than 20m people and yet they are 'only' that bright in the above satellite map. Bear in mind that Beijing/Shanghai are highly urbanized/highly developed, and the above urban agglomeration includes nearby surrounding smaller cities.

You compare this to Kyushu region of Japan which has 13m people, barely half of Beijing/Shanghai.

Kyushu is much brighter with many more bright spots even with half of the population.
And that's because Beijing/Shanghai are much more densely populated with concentrated population centers, not because Chinese statistics are fake whatsoever.

So satellite map isn't necessarily a good indicator because it ignores population density. I think Singapore's light is probably even smaller than Pyongyang but that's because we are geographically small with high density, not because we don't consume much.

Density of North Korea:

As you can see, their population isn't evenly spread. One region is easily 10x more dense than another region. The majority of land doesn't even have 250 people per km2.

If NK is really that backwards, they wouldn't be able to come up with nukes and ICBMs with just 25m people and so little economic resources.

 

[OIO]

Turkey is in the debt-trap of west and struggling hopelessly.

 

[beijingwalker]

My respect for Erdogan and Turkey goes up every day. May Allah ta’ala give them more respect. Kudos for sticking up for our fellow Uighur muslims.

China stooped really low by arresting Turkish businessmen....that’s just childish. The Turks should take their business to Vietnam which is on the up and cheaper.

Better than claiming a live Uighur musician dead, Turkey borrowed at least 6 billion dollars from China in less than half a year, next time they should go to Vietnam to get the money and good luck.

 

[Feng Leng]

Turkey should do the same with Taiwan

Turkey is a poor a$$ country with a huge mouth.

 

[Wa Muhammada]

good luck

Turkey is a poor a$$ country with a huge mouth.

Classy....

 

[Tom M]

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Well is it symbol for China-Pak friendship, the watermelon??

 

[beijingwalker]

Turkey is a poor a$$ country with a huge mouth.

Turkey is all talk, they don't give a dime when their so called Muslim brothers are in trouble while China gives tons of aid around the world. What Turkey can do the best is lip service.

 

[Wa Muhammada]

Better than claiming a live Uighur musician dead, Turkey borrowed at least 6 billion dollars from China in less than half a year, next time they should go to Vietnam to get the money and good luck.

Turkey is all talk, they don't give a dime when their so called Muslim brothers are in trouble while China gives tons of aid around the world. What Turkey can do the best is lip service.

Mate

You only do it for your own interests... raw materials & geopolitics, developing export markets.... so don’t act like your country is a friend of muslims

Whereas Turkey speaks up for Uighar muslims regardless of the impact on their economy.

 

[beijingwalker]

Mate

You only do it for your own interests... raw materials & geopolitics, developing export markets.... so don’t act like your country is a friend of muslims

Whereas Turkey speaks up for Uighar muslims regardless of the impact on their economy.

Pakistan has 4 neighors, two fellow Muslim countries, Afghanistan and Iran, one Hindu country, India, one Communist country, China. Which of those four countries maintains a quiet and peaceful borders with Pakistan and is willing to help when Pakistan is in need?

You only do it for your own interests...

China under mounting international pressure repeated blocked masood azhar listing which resulted in massive Indian market boycotting China goods is for China's own interest?

We suffered real loss ,what loss Turkey suffered besides some cheap lip service?

India Cuts Trade Deficit With China by $10 Billion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/india-is-said-to-cut-trade-deficit-with-china-by-10-billion

 

[OIO]

Mate

You only do it for your own interests... raw materials & geopolitics, developing export markets.... so don’t act like your country is a friend of muslims

Whereas Turkey speaks up for Uighar muslims regardless of the impact on their economy.

Uighar can leave China if they don't want to obey Chinese law.
in fact uighars in Turkey are second class citizens.