(Стайеры-рекордсмены. Двести лет с начала борьбы за африканские колонии прошло, все участники игры уже сдулись, а китайцы только разогрелись. Фантастика просто.)
Zimbabwe announced that this small, economically devastated country would officially make the Chinese Yuan its legal tender as it seeks to increase trade with Beijing. In exchange for becoming not only a military but also financial colony of China, $40 million of its debts to Beijing would be canceled.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-24/zimbabwe-becomes-beijings-first-official-african-colony-after-adoption-chinese-yuan
Кремлевский чиновник сказал, что Россия обменивается разведывательной информацией с Талибаном, мятежниками-исламистами, с которыми США воюют с 2001 г. и оплотом против ИГ в Афганистане.
A Kremlin official said Wednesday that Russia was exchanging information with the Taliban, the Islamist insurgency that the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, as a bulwark against the spread of the Islamic State militant group in that country.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-24/bizarre-alliance-russia-teams-taliban-isis-fight