Not like the IMF/US hasn't trapped developing countries in debt for the last 70 years in order to gain access to their markets strategic assets and resources?

Or simply engineer a military coup like the CIA did in Indonesia in the 1960s and order the killing of one million alleged 'communists' and then divide Indonesias vast wealth out to US corporate interests.

China is building an extensive network of high speed trains throughout Asia across Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, the Thailand lines routing eventually down through Malaysia to Singapore. In many ways reverse engineering the rail project captured and built by the Japanese up into Myanmar in WW2 who were seeking to cut of British supply lines supporting the renegade Chinese Nationalist government in Chongqing.

The infrastructure of empire. You cannot do without it.

Today Chinese engineers and supply chains dominate strategic global infrastructure projects. The financialised west is simply incapable of competing on price and engineering capability. The Chinese have learned from the imperialist west and come to excel them in many ways.