Africa's Smaller Countries

Kenya in particular has played the game exceptionally well. viet nam is particularly skilled at at playing this gamet hedging. If you are a small developing country and you don't feel that you're getting sufficient attention from the united states, just say: "We're thinking of hosting a chinese military base" And holy craft, money will start raining down from heaven run youoit's incredible to cambodia, solomon islands, equatorial guinea - they've been able to get so much attention by saying 'Well, maybe the chinese might be er with tha military base'

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