Borkena News Desk
TORONTO, Canada — This year, Ethiopia has embarked on the construction of Bishoftu International Airport, a mega project which is estimated to cost about $12.5 billion.
When fully completed, the four runway airline will be Africa’s largest Airport with a capacity to serve about 110 million passengers per year.
Ethiopian Airlines has reportedly made available about $600 million of the initial funds. The African Development Bank has committed about $500 million, according to a Reuters report. The remaining project cost is to be sourced from funders in the East, particularly China, and the west.
What is known so far is that the United States is interested in “high impact projects” in the transportation sector. Senior Ethiopian government officials had discussion with relevant U.S. officials in April this year.
Regarding China, Ethiopian officials have been approaching Chinese funding sources while lobbying for debt restructuring. China has funded the railway project in the country which cost billions of dollars – something that is seen as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative project.
Meanwhile, there are reports of Sino-America economic rivalry on Ethiopia’s mega project which the United States appears to see as a strategic project that aligns with its interest in the region. Noticeably, the United States has entrenched itself across state and non-state structures in the country while China’s appearance, at least so far, was merely a strong presence.
According to a report by First Post, the Bishofu airport could be a point of rivalry between the two countries. Watch the video embedded below and share your views in the comment section.
Video: embedded from First Post Africa YouTube channel
Cover photo: Screenshot from the video
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I hope Good Ole USA will have the upper hand in this rivalry. If that happens, then the old country will be in company leading to an industrialized nation. The old country has immense untapped natural resources. All it needs is develop that into use creating tens of millions of new jobs. Then we will be talking about a country where the middle class will be in its majority. We all know what that means. When the middle class is the majority the days of despots will be numbered. I had seen it happening right in front of watching eyes in Taiwan, South Korea and even in Chile. All these countries used to be ruled by brutes but the majority middle class made it impossible for despots to rule as usual. The middle class did not have to take to the bushes and do the Mao breakdancing. Chiang Kai-shek’s dynasty, Dae-jung, and Pinochet were shown the door one by one to never come back. All that happened because USA was there investing and educating. Go get’em USA!!!!
Watch the two vides below 10 or more times so that you would gain DEEPER understanding of what goes on on Earth, from the ‘far side of the MOON’ where you appear to be located…
For those of you on Earth, watching one of them just once is enough to get the point…
‘Japan Just Forced U.S. to Rescue the Collapsing Yen”
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=OSvXu1vo_mY
#2)
‘Bessent (USA) BEGS Japan and Europe to Stop Selling US Bonds – Caught on Camera”
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=U-OBpNvXNS8
( She (her double ganger (AI bot) ) repeats things, but the point made is important.. (for the DISACONNECTED among us… )
The deference between one that who ‘believes’, and one that admits & says ‘I do not know” is, the believer has outsourced his responsibility to someone (UNKNOWNWINGLY), while for the other ‘the possibility of SEEKING to KNOW opens WIDE OPEN,; and the KNOWING follows.
When one knows where & how getting there is second nature, while ‘believing’ takes one to NOWHERE (no direction, going in circles, till the end of times.)
Be well.
Maybe you like this one, to know where your ‘Good Ole USA will have the upper hand’ (Theft)
‘Where is Venezuela’s oil money?’
link = youtube.com/watch?v=EzvdGKs05Rc
‘Tell me your friends, and I will tell you… ‘
Be well.
“I hope Good Ole USA will have the upper hand…”
Oh yes, Certainly!
‘First slowly, and all of a sadden… ( ‘ upper hand.’)
As the prof explains below:
‘Jiang Xueqin: Breaking Point – Why the West Is Falling Apart’
Glenn Diesen
Aug 11, 2026
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=QEysVg7ftWk
“Animal farm”
Be well.
Mimicking the past (DEAD) & OLD run based steam combustion engine in the emerging electric & AI driven economies of the future, 80% chance it might end up a BRIDGE TO NOWHERE.
When traditional measurement ‘in years’ is becoming condensed to ‘a week’ or less in AI Era, and the likelihood of ‘Work” becoming an OPTION or a preference like ‘gardening’ within the next 10 years; and when ‘earning money’ becomes obsolete as AI Robots do all the jobs, where all transportation tools become self -driving/flying/navigating, both money & humans become redundant. Private flying cars that can takeoff and land on the driveway… runways will become like the Shopping Malls that are slowly becoming abandoned and replaced by E-commerce. Taxis replaced by Uber, Hotels facing competitions by Airbnb. The name ‘Bishoftu’ sounds like ‘… gone with the wind’ ( ቢ ሸፍቱ) it may have been named so, as a prophecy ( ‘bridge to nowhere’) ( the Pyramid, only good for site seeing for the inclined).
knowing what we know ( do not know):
One way to go about this is:
(1) scale down the project, not the size but the expenditure to happen based on ‘as needed’ basis.
(2) partner with the (cash swamped) China based on profit-sharing till the COST IS RECOVERED & some ( ROI); cash trapped (~40 trillion) USA is not variable partner as it is deindustrialized & war-driven that heading to repeat the 1929 before 2030 ( 100 year cycle) before our own eyes… What is artificially keeping the USA afloat ATM is Data-Center-Expansion buildup BUBBLE which is about to burst due to thee Chinese FREE LLMs that are far more POWERFUL to compete with and EXPECT to collect RENT from a non existent CONSUMER ( the Chinese turned to Landlords, as they have pulled 800 million plus Chinese from POVERTY.)
Be smart!
Avoid becoming Detroit! the former car capital of the world… the old system did not fair Dubai itself in 2026.
Be well
Here is a suggestion:
With GERD power supply AT HAND and other DAMs that are on the way to produce more RENEWABLE Electric POWER, the future of DATA Center Demand is going to grow EXPONENTIALLY, therefore it is WISE to build Mega DATA CENTERS to become the HUB of Africa’s DATA CENTERS & the destination for DIGITAL PROCESSING of the 21st century, by becoming the FOREFRONT of the THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR), that is underway.
4IR:
‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution, also called 4IR or Industry 4.0, is a 21st-century wave of rapid technological change that merges digital, physical, and biological systems through innovations like artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, and advanced materials.’
FORWARD pointing IMAGINATION is the way to GO, not looking back on the rearview mirror (to REPLICATE for the dead and gone)!
SpaceX Stock Crash Just Hit The Most Dangerous Moment
LINK = youtube.com/watch?v=L9qwyOocBZ8
Remember the Librarian, that used to help you find or point you to the book9s0 you looking for, without you going through the catalog of Index Cards… AI is the OLD library, multiple libraries in your pocket talking to you and arranging the information you are after faster than the time it took you to ask the question.
Go with the TIME, Build the DATA CENTER(s) and the Airport will follow after as needed…
Ethiopian Air Lines, can be not only the Africa’s air transportation Co. but the worlds DIGITAL STORAGE & DATA-transmission HUB.
Be well.
Europe is starved of Energy since Nord Stream sabotage (they (FGR) participated in) & the Hurmuz closure… therefore cheaper DATA Center to run their economies and Ethiopian located such operation suites their needs vs one in China or US…
Professor Jiang: “The West Will Burn.” I Predict This Happens by 2030
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=1JWqAvlmvpE
DATA Center will be in HUGE DEMAND than an airport that might have less demand vs the economies that were expected to be the potential customers as stated in the video above…
Ethiopian Data centers do not need expensive GPUs, and server stacks from the West, but the cheaper Chinese chips, Chinese data centers are built with, that are comparable in performance to the beast of the beast, yet a lot cheaper…
Be well.
Here is a good reason, ‘Why’ a major investment, such as the major Airport mentioned, (by borrowing) is NOT such a GOOD IDEA.
‘Why The World Order Will Collapse in 2032 | Gold, Oil & The US Dollar’
(The US Republic might not exist as it is NOW.) = Major changes are at work…
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=AgTk42rH4n8&t=166s
The world we know is not going to be the same again!
MAYA 2012???
Many thought it is as FAKE as Trump’s ” Truth Social’ ( Truth-FAKE NEWS)…
Many of us knew it won’t happen on January 01, 2012, but the countdown has started then. Expect things to CHANGE FASTER from here on…
‘Our Arrival At The Galactic Photon Belt’
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=B0NLfBQHw-8&ab_channel=OwenLucas
We did not get from a few millions to 8 Billion in just 2000 years… it is because the Solar system ( all Galaxies and the Universe (s) ) is Ascending to Higher Realm from 3D/4d to possibly 5D. And nothing will be the same again.
Until then, sit back and be an ‘observer’ (as in the Book of Henock ‘The Observers’), It is an ‘Individual journey’; as in the ‘Eye of the kneeled’…
Most Souls are here in droves (8 billion) to experience the ‘Ascension’.
8 ኛው ሺህ።
Be well.
Supporting analysis :
‘THIS is The EXACT Date of The Next Recession’ | Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=0DW5rrQPSrI
#2
‘”What’s Coming Is WORSE Than A Recession…” | Prof. Jiang Xueqin
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=rjUtcK2dmsI
Be well.
Capitalism is 100% about MONEY ( not about people); that is why it is STUCK in the BOOM & BUST cycle, to no end ( but collapse).
Similarly mainstream Economists live by the THEORY they were indoctrinated with ignoring the REALITY component of the real economy; assist the BOOM & BUST to continue…until the BB cycle loses its balance and COLLAPSE (1929); possibly 2032.
That is why the Chinese ‘Market economy’ combined with their ‘Socialist Characteristics’ will fair better than the US capitalist (service based) economy when AI takes away JOBs from the Working-Class, and the WC spending DRY UP, & MONEY IS trapped in a handful Trillionaire who’s CONSUMPTION power is relatively ZERO.
‘The Economist Who Predicted 2008 Explains China’s Endgame’
Prof. Steve Keen
Link = youtube.com/watch?v=qbnuJFRcvQE
Nothing can STOP this train. ( Get out of the way! = Economic DISCIPLINE)
Be well.