
Grave Digger
"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." - Morpheus, Matrix, 2000 This week I have learned a thing or two about managing risk in a zero sum game and like good old Morpheus I am realising that I want stay in wonderland and I do want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Anyway, let's take a breadth, I am coming to that

Debt-Trap Diplomacy, Chinese Infrastructure Loans
If you are like me, you are probably scratching your head and wondering; What's China's long game? Why are developing nation's being roped into infrastructure loan deals by China? And why are they accepting these deals? The answer partly lies in the early attitudes to Africa by the United States and European institutions like the IMF and Chinese strategic plans to relieve the United States of its global influence. Historically China has never sort world domination, after all