China set to invest £105bn in British infrastructure by 2025

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td> China is set to invest £105bn in British infrastructure by 2025, with energy, property and transport the biggest recipients, according to research.

The world’s second-biggest economy has already invested £11.7bn in Britain between 2005 and 2013, including a 10 per cent stake in Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water utility, held by the China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund.

This is expected to rise rapidly as Chinese capital seeks a safe haven for outbound investment, according to a report by the London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research and the law firm Pinsent Masons, which is due to be launched by the Chinese International Contractors Association in Beijing next month.

Richard Laudy, a partner at Pinsent Masons, described the prospect of greater Chinese investment as a “game changer” for the UK, adding: “We expect this to be the beginning of a major trend as a trickle of Chinese investment turns into a wave over the coming decade.”
The report expects the UK to rank third out of 144 countries for attractiveness to foreign investment from China, behind the US and Japan.


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[ballscout1]

At one time it was recommended to learn Spanish but cats better get there Rosetta Stone for Chinese languages because they are buying up everything

 

[turboether]

At one time it was recommended to learn Spanish but cats better get there Rosetta Stone for Chinese languages because they are buying up everything

998 million people in the world speak Mandarin compared to the 280 million who speak English, it might not be a bad idea

 

[Kaotic]

IMO...The more they progress economically, the weaker their stability and controlling reign over their workforce will become.

I say this because right now China is still a communist state and enjoys and unobstructed Zero Fuxcz Given control over its people, however and the profits are starting to proliferate to larger population of its people they are already starting to see cracks at the seams.

Young, educated, and wealthy Chinese citizens are becoming more and more adamant about their freedom and their quest for a democratic state. Hong Kong is somewhat of an excerpt of China as it was colonized and controlled by the British until 1997, and is the new epicenter for that charge right now. The Chinese communist party knows they need to crush those ideals before the movement gains anymore traction, but they have a dilemma because no matter how hard they try hide it, the rest of the world is watching and making business decision based on their human rights governance. Western leading countries can't keep doing busy with them and maintain cover of their dirty dark little secret deals if shits really escalates over there (IE; another Tiananmen Square incident). The internet and social media has changed the game immensely.

If think about it in reference to China, the story line of The Hunger Games is almost like art imitating life. If their gargantuan workforce starts to seriously rebel and eventually win its freedom from oppression, the communist party will not longer be able to run roughshod over its people. Their citizens will start to demand more basic human rights, wages, equal pay and profits. They will not have the world's largest slave labor workforce anymore, and will be forced to comprise.

The U.S. is the living example of that scenario right now with all of the illegal immigrants and political protests against reform. The U.S. government gives zero fuxcz about 10 million illegal workers, but it DOES give countless fuxcz about the hit their rich party backers will take once they can no longer shit on those people if they get their citizenship.

So it will interesting to see how this plays out, but one thing for sure...Once there is a crack, its hard to back a raging river that is growing in intensity.

But again, this is just my opinion...

 

[Nzinga]

998 million people in the world speak Mandarin compared to the 280 million who speak English, it might not be a bad idea

The US alone has 320 million English speakers, Canada another 35 million, Australia
another 30 million, the UK 65 million, Nigeria brings in 200 million, Ghana 25 million
Sierra Leone 5 mil, South Africa 50 mil, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana,
Namibia together bring in another 50 million. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda bring in
140 million, New Zealand 5 million, Hong Kong 5 million, India 1.2 billion, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, Bring another 350 million, and I have not counted the Caribbeans... What
are you talking about? Do not read the bullshit from the racist cacs who only count
white people. The English imposed their language all over the world, and it is not going
anywhere. Mandarin is not taking over anything.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

The US alone has 320 million English speakers, Canada another 35 million, Australia
another 30 million, the UK 65 million, Nigeria brings in 200 million, Ghana 25 million
Sierra Leone 5 mil, South Africa 50 mil, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana,
Namibia together bring in another 50 million. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda bring in
140 million, New Zealand 5 million, Hong Kong 5 million, India 1.2 billion, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, Bring another 350 million, and I have not counted the Caribbeans... What
are you talking about? Do not read the bullshit from the racist cacs who only count
white people. The English imposed their language all over the world, and it is not going
anywhere. Mandarin is not taking over anything.

This is the zinga I like.