It's arguably not even extortion. Venezuela secures a loan via promises of discounted iron ore sales to China. They weren't able to produce the promised iron ore so they continue to owe money because they didn't hold up their end of the agreement. This is the normal operation of failing to fulfil your part of an agreement.

If China asked for something outside the deal that they weren't otherwise entitled to, like say "let me build a military base in Venezuela or else I'll recall the debt" then it's extortion.

What carry on working from prison…

The gist of what is said is if you’re so critical then do a better job than China.

Makes sense to me. If China’s lending is so bad, make a better offer.

Where have you read that dumb ballistic missiles are almost impossible to shoot down? They are the easiest type to shoot down.

Whether or not what you have said is true (and I don't think that it is, but we can assume that it is true for the sake of argument), it is an obvious case of whataboutism.

The article concerns allegations that China is extending loans to low-income countries that they cannot service and using their debt to exert influence over them.

That analogies can or cannot be drawn about the relations between elite and proletariat classes within nations does not address, and merely distracts, from the subject of the article.

If elite classes are oppressing the proletariat as your comment implies, that is bad; but that is not a reason not to address credible allegations that China engages in "debt trap" diplomacy to influence impoverished nations.

As if the US abides by the law

And Russia is well known for never coming back on their statements.

I’m talking about the so called billions debt cut, I can careless about the black mail. And yes, I did read the article.

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Isn’t Russia having problems feeding its troops lol but I guess even rations would help out North Korea. Just remember Putin, you get what you pay for, those weapons would look in propaganda videos but will they work….

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I still think the traditional term is “dowry” (not “dower” which was probably a typo) though. It’s a commonly understood term.

Where's the blackmail? Do you know what blackmail is? Did you even read your own linked article? China and Venezuela made a deal where China would loan them money in exchange the sale of Iron ore at a heavily discounted rate. In the end Venezuela were unable to produce the iron ore quotas despite fuether investment from China intended to increase their productivity. So China doesn't get the Iron Ore they were promised and Venezuela still owes money to China because they didn't meet the Iron Ore Quota they promised.

Where's the blackmail?

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FIFA and IOC are the most corrupt fuckers on earth.

Their whole thing is discrimination, that's what the labels are.

Hope they’re not this slow with putin.

Hell march

Depends, can your man catchers run faster than the average man?

It’s why the quotation marks are more relevant than the word democracy when talking about the RF

Good luck

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And they’d only be sending enough food for pingpong’s elite inner circles anyway.

Post-Brexit there was a big push to get Brits working on the farms again. If the pay wasn't abysmal there'd be a requirement to live on-site and off-site applicants wouldn't be considered...like, what? If I like 30 minutes down the road with my family I'm not going to move out for the damn season just so I can pay the farmer extra rent.

And then it's 'Brits just don't want these jobs!'