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Bruno Maçães
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I don’t know who invented this debt trap criticism of the Belt and Road. Always seemed to me the most absurd way to criticize the plan. And the easiest for China to address, they obviously want to avoid wasting billions in return for dubious collateral
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Ask China to make all long term plans public and things might get trickier
And by the way the debt trap criticism is the one the West is most vulnerable to. Ask Africans
Anyway read my book if you want to see what the critical problems with the Belt and Road are. They won’t be addressed at the forum
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Bruno Maçães
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It is common in some authoritarian societies today that a book can only be published with a cover warning or a preface detailing its mistakes. We seem to be very close to adopting that model in Western societies.
There might be an official formula to eliminate doubt and streamline the process. For example, every monograph would start with the sentence “The book I am studying contains several ideas from which I want to immediately dissociate myself” with a footnote detailing those ideas
Authorities could also create new literary personae. For example there would be Pound and Pound*. The latter is the writer Ezra Pound but with all problematic passages expunged. And then each person could freely decide if he wants to read or write about Pound or Pound*
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I cannot go along with this nonsense. Corbyn cannot write a foreword to Hobson? Salvini cannot quote Ezra Pound? I would think on the contrary that every educated person needs to have read Hobson and Pound
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We seem to be getting rather close to that old Soviet style of regarding ideas. A book on Locke would start with 100 pages denouncing him as a bourgeois, then on page 100, “nevertheless one can draw one or two valuable insights from this bourgeois writer”
I must be old-fashioned. When I meet a person I want to know if she is a good, sincere, ethical person. When I meet a book I want to know whether it is an intelligent, original, eye-opening book
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Bruno Maçães
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This is certainly not true. Portugal was a nation state with an empire. It was not an empire. The same I think was true of France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Holland...
politico.eu/article/europe…
Maybe you want to call Britain a nations-state but that does not change the main point
Maybe you can argue that Germany is unique in never having been a nation state before 1949, but that’s about it
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