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A comment on Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road. Parent comment

Re:Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road by slimed on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:57AM (#17755678)
Sri Lanka is off the coast of India. Your lack of attention to detail does not give one confidence in your argument.
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Re:Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road by dang on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:33AM (#17756135)
Please don't be rude, even if someone got a detail wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road by Barrin92 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:04AM (#17755694)
Sorry did you respond to the wrong person? The harbour story that recently made headlines concerned the port in Djibouti, which to my knowledge is located in East Africa. I did not mention Sri Lanka.
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Re:Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road by greglindahl on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:25AM (#17755757)
As mentioned in the fine article:

> Failed projects like Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port may indeed be a way for China to quietly extend its strategic power around the world.

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Re:Soviet Collapse Echoes in China’s Belt and Road by Barrin92 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:36AM (#17755797)
oh well sorry, did not catch that!
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