The Belt & Road Initiative

In 2018, the Rongelap Atoll received special attention from two Chinese nationals; Cary Yan and Gina Izou. They wanted to turn the atoll into ‘the next Hong Kong’.

A somewhat odd proposal, given said atoll has a population of only 79.

But Cary Yan was adamant — in fact, he was willing to take those ‘spreading misinformation’ to court, with 1,000 houses supposedly already being up for sale.

Now, in the event you don’t actually know where the Rongelap Atoll is, you’re excused. Here it is. In the middle of the pacific, North of the Marshal Islands, with the Solomon islands further to the south.

And why? The hint’s in the original story. Rongelap Atoll Special Administrative Region. Remind you of anything?

‘Special administrative region’ is the title of the two-system approach also - supposedly - implemented in Macau and Hong Kong, following the handover to China in the late 90s.

And look closer. The Rongelap Atoll just happens to be just north of the Marshal Islands Ronald Reagan missile defense test site.

Strangely coincidental, no?

And around the same time, the Solomon Islands further to the south signed the contract with China - they joined the Belt & Road Initiative.

However, the Rongelap Atoll was not flipped, and Cary Yan and Gina Zhou both ended up in jail for bribery. However, while that atoll failed, 10 micronations signed up for the BRI around the same time.

But these micronations were not the only countries that decided to join the BRI. El Salvador and Honduras did as well.

However, Guatemala rejected Chinese advances, and as a result, got slammed in Asian media. Grenada tabled no such objection; they joined in April, 2019.

Where this becomes interesting is here - in 2015, Grenada sent a delegation to the UN General Assembly. And two names stand out - Cary Yan, and Gina Ihou. Perhaps it’s just me, but I think that’s a spelling mistake - I rather suspect those two are the same individuals, who later failed in their attempted bribery of Rongelap Atoll politicians.

I suspect those two are CCP agents, and that they were ‘working on’ Grenada at the time.

And El Salvador, and Honduras were two nations named, when the ‘World Organisation of Governance and Competitiveness’ later launched in 2016, during the UN General Assembly (UNGA 71), with a stated mission of implementing the SDGs.

And in the event you haven’t heard of the WOGC - nor their initiative of importance, the WADDC (or GADDC) - it’s a topic to which I will return, because besides the Belt&Road Initiative, I rather suspect a game of high politics played behind the scenes in the 2010s came to an abrupt end almost as soon as it started, with great impact on the world today.

But while the otherwise rapid growth of the BRI certainly appears to have stalled as a result of the scamdemic, it doesn’t appear to have entirely died.

But it does somewhat appear as though the easily picked fruit are now largely harvested. While growth was rapid all through the 2010s, it has now come to a relative trickle, with traditionally Western nations a somewhat more complex proposition.

Italy, in fact, are making moves towards leaving the BRI, almost certainly pressured by the other G7 members, including Washington DC.

This article however is somewhat illuminating, because - though posted in western media - it does outline how the BRI works. If loans are not repaid, the constructed assets for which loans were provided are confiscated by China.

And those assets are typically of strategic importance - like ports or airports.

And as for China - Beijing was the setting just a few weeks back during the recent Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation - an event practically entirely ignored by western media - naturally attended by Collegium International man of action, Antonio Guterres - perhaps better known as the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

And the next topic in this regard will be the WADDC. But - for now - read up on the Collegium International if you’re unfamiliar with this global governance seeking organisation, of which the current UN Secretary-General is a member.

To be continued.