February 2012
105 posts
“Some foreigners with full stomachs and nothing better to do point fingers at us. But we don’t export revolution, hunger or poverty, nor do we cause trouble for you. What else do you want?”
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Xi Jinping in 2009; the BBC calls this ”some of the only unguarded comments he’s ever really made.” (via cristinagarafola)
I don’t know how I feel about this. I met a man yesterday who singlehandedly has started a company that has bought rainforests in Brazil, is buying up Russian pipelines to harvest mineral ore, and has started trade in Africa. What kind of trade? I could not understand but it sounded baller, slightly capitalist, and definitely like there could be some trouble down the road.
