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Re:The Ghosts of Baha Mar: How a $3.5B Paradise Went Bust by ChuckMcM on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:04PM (#10844798) 

   > Yeah. :/ He should have abandoned ship the moment 
   > he needed an Exim loan.
Exactly, and that is where I'm hung up in this story. Since he's apparently had some experience here and he didn't abandon the project, I would have expected that the contract language would protect him from the situation he is currently in. That it didn't makes me wonder why he agreed to it in the first place. Reminds me of the joke about looking around the poker table to spot the sucker, if you can't spot the sucker then YOU are the sucker.
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Re:The Ghosts of Baha Mar: How a $3.5B Paradise Went Bust by foobarian on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:16PM (#10848211)
I don't really see what good a contract would do. It's probably worthless in a Chinese court where it would matter.
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