EXTERNAL DEBT: USA and China.
Rank| Country | External Debt (US-$) |___ Date __| Per Capita (US-$) | % 0f GDP |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 __|_ USA __|_18,624,000,000,000_| 30-06-2017 |____ 57,300 ____|___ 98 ___|
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13 _|_ China_|__1,562,800,000,000_| 30-06-2017 |_____ 1,100 ____|___ 13 ___|
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Especially dramatic is the external debt per capita in the USA: it is 52.09 times more than in China.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Countries by military expenditures (absolute) in 2014, based on data from the World Bank.

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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, and security organisation, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Charter was signed in June 2002 and entered into force on 19 September 2003. These countries, except for Uzbekistan, had been members of the Shanghai Five group, founded on 26 April 1996 in Shanghai. India and Pakistan joined SCO as full members on 9 June 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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NEWS:
China-CEEC Cooperation.
The "CEEC" as a "Trojan Donkey".
Meeting 2017.

The 16+1 format is an initiative by the People’s Republic of China aimed at intensifying and expanding cooperation with 11 EU Member States and 5 Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia) in the fields of investments, transport, finance, science, education, and culture. In the framework of the initiative, China has defined three potential priority areas for economic cooperation: infrastructure, high technologies, and green technologies.
Meeting of China-CEEC Business Council and Business Support Organizations.
Paying high importance and contribution to the cooperation with China and 16 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries within the 16+1 platform, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA), organizer of the Business Forum within The 5th Meeting of Heads of Government of 16+1 countries last year in November, in cooperation with China-CEEC Business Council organized three-day meeting in Latvia.
Presentations of Meeting of China-CEEC Business Council and Business Support Organizations, June 20, 2017 are available
here.
