John Perkins | Lessons From The Confessions Of An Economic Hitman
The Geopolitics & Power Podcast
00:00
The Debt Traps and China and Belt and Road
CNN's John Defterios talks to Peter Bergen about his time working in Saudi Arabia. He says the country was embarrassed that it didn't have a garbage collection system. The U.S. government convinced Saudis they couldn't hold them hostage for oil, he says. They reinvested their petro dollars in US government securities and used interest to hire American companies on projects like power plants or cities.
Transcript
Play full episode
