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Re:Thailand finds 14.8M tonnes of lithium by TaylorAlexander on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:16PM (#39059004)
Sounds like a trade to me. Predatory tho if the country is very poor and easily exploited. But as someone from a country that loves to invade others for resources I’d take predatory trading over military force any day.
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Re:Thailand finds 14.8M tonnes of lithium by latchkey on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:20PM (#39059056)
You didn't dive deep enough into the literal eco/social catastrophe that the silkroad is.

It isn't military because neither of those two countries have any sort of way to defend themselves against China, but it might as well be military, because China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

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