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Revision as of 20:38, January 12, 2022
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==Pakistan==
==Pakistan==
The port at Gwadar on the Indian Ocean in the disputed territory of [[Balochistan (country)|Balochistan]] in [[Pakistan]] is a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative. It’s part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor—or CPEC. It aims to give China access to the Indian Ocean. An official CPEC roadway and energy pipeline shows plans to link Gwadar with China’s [[Xinjiang]] Autonomous region. A 2020 US Naval War College study however says, Chinese analysts have come to view the plan as not viable. According to reports, “Shipping and industrial activity at the port are negligible. And for the vast majority of Gwadar’s residents, conditions are unchanged or worse.” China’s fishing trawler fleet has devastated the ocean and forced local fishermen out. And many of the promised benefits from the CPEC have not happened. Major projects—including a vocational training center, medical hospital, and desalination plant—have either been delayed, scaled-down, or dropped. Large scale protests among the local population erupted.
The port at Gwadar on the Indian Ocean in the disputed territory of [[Balochistan (country)|Balochistan]] in [[Pakistan]] is a key part of the Belt and Road Initiative. It’s part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor—or CPEC. It aims to give China access to the Indian Ocean. An official CPEC roadway and energy pipeline shows plans to link Gwadar with China’s [[Xinjiang]] Autonomous region. A 2020 US Naval War College study however says, Chinese analysts have come to view the plan as not viable. According to reports, “Shipping and industrial activity at the port are negligible. And for the vast majority of Gwadar’s residents, conditions are unchanged or worse.” China’s fishing trawler fleet has devastated the ocean and forced local fishermen out. And many of the promised benefits from the CPEC have not happened. Major projects—including a vocational training center, medical hospital, and desalination plant—have either been delayed, scaled-down, or dropped. Large scale protests among the local population erupted.
==Kazakhstan==
[[File:Biden and Kazak corruption.PNG|right|300px|thumb|''Left to right:'' Kenes Rakishev, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kazak Prime Minister Karim Massimov.<ref>https://kiar.center/the-son-of-former-us-vice-president-biden-received-money-not-only-in-ukraine-but-also-in-kazakhstan/</ref>]]
[[Hunter Biden]] acted as a broker between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Kazak prime minister Karim Massimov to buy up assets for the CCP's Belt and Road Initiative.<ref>https://rumble.com/vsc1cy-episode-2-geopolitics-interview-with-jack-maxey-kazakhstan-and-hunter-biden.html</ref> Between 2012 and 2014 Hunter Biden worked as a go-between helping Kazak businessmen broker investments. Hunter Biden received payments from KazMunaiGas while he was a member of the management of the Kazakh company Burisma Kazakhstan. In 2014, Hunter ditched his [[Secret Service]] detail in [[Paris]] to travel to Kazakhstan to discuss a Burisma deal with Massimov. There is one payment from Karim Massimov 's son of $145,000.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/exclusive-peter-schweizer-joe-biden-steered-1-8-billion-to-ukraine-while-his-son-bagged-sweetheart-deal-from-their-government/</ref>
Hunter traveled to the Kazakh capital of Astana to hold business discussions with Kenes Rakishev, who was apparently looking to invest in New York and Washington DC. Hunter then attempted to persuade Rakishev to buy into a Nevadan mining company, brokering a series of meetings with the firm, before convincing him to invest a million dollars with Alexandra Forbes Kerry, the film-maker daughter of Obam Secretary of State and Biden climate Czar John Kerry.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10388217/Kazakhstan-intel-chief-Hunter-Bidens-close-friend-charged-treason-amid-protests.html</ref>
[[Joe Biden]] met with Hunter Biden's corrupt Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates on April 16, 2015 while he was vice president. Hunter Biden described Massimov as a “close friend.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/05/28/joe-biden-regular-at-dc-hotspot-where-he-met-hunters-associates/</ref> Massimov was arrested the day after he was fired as security and intelligence chief.
In Kazakhstan, a near-doubling of gas prices sparked protests that were initially peaceful when they broke out on January 2, 2022, but they quickly turned violent. The government said that the security forces had been ordered to abandon Almaty airport so protesters could take it over, and a security building was left undefended, enabling people to seize weapons.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10388217/Kazakhstan-intel-chief-Hunter-Bidens-close-friend-charged-treason-amid-protests.html</ref> Former Kazak Prime Minister and intelligence chief Karim Massimov and others were arrested on high treason charges.<ref>https://justthenews.com/world/asia/biden-business-associate-former-kazakh-pm-arrested-suspicion-treason</ref>
==Republic of Maldives==
==Republic of Maldives==