Makes me wonder who they're scamming this time, and why.
Communist nations have traditionally been known for their grandiose superlatives that always turn out to be bullshit - always the "best harvest" or the "happiest people" or the "most productive" etc, and it always, without fail, turns out to be bullshit. Usually they are either scamming their own people (to keep them pacified and less revolution-ey), or their main opponents (to try o make the opposition feel inadequate and demoralize them).
But this scam I can't figure out - why pick such a piddling amount? Modern high-end nations have annual economies measured in trillions of unbacked dollars. This entire lode, if mined to exhaustion, would cover less that 1/10th of ONE trillion - so why bother with it on a national level? It might make one or two guys rich, but not a nation of a billion. It would be just another drop in the bucket to them.
So, it is without a doubt some sort of scam, but what is the scam, who are they scamming, and why?
.Maybe trying to scam some foreign investors to invest in Chinese industry again after the Great Pullout from China?
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Communist nations have traditionally been known for their grandiose superlatives that always turn out to be bullshit - always the "best harvest" or the "happiest people" or the "most productive" etc, and it always, without fail, turns out to be bullshit. Usually they are either scamming their own people (to keep them pacified and less revolution-ey), or their main opponents (to try o make the opposition feel inadequate and demoralize them).
But this scam I can't figure out - why pick such a piddling amount? Modern high-end nations have annual economies measured in trillions of unbacked dollars. This entire lode, if mined to exhaustion, would cover less that 1/10th of ONE trillion - so why bother with it on a national level? It might make one or two guys rich, but not a nation of a billion. It would be just another drop in the bucket to them.
So, it is without a doubt some sort of scam, but what is the scam, who are they scamming, and why?
.Maybe trying to scam some foreign investors to invest in Chinese industry again after the Great Pullout from China?
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake