In this graphic, we ranked the top 20 countries by their amount of debt to China. These figures are as of 2022, and come from the World Bank
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18 sats \ 6 replies \ @Cje95 30 Apr
I bet these are all Belt and Road projects that were nothing short of traps to gain control of these countries...
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 30 Apr
I had a similar thought.
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18 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 30 Apr
Remember how at first people thought "oh look at China try to help develop these countries" now we are looking at those loans going dear lord why did you sign this did you have a gun to your head?!
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 30 Apr
I don't know why anyone ever concludes that any government is doing something out of the goodness of their hearts.
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18 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 30 Apr
I will say that at least with who I work with we do try to do whats best... it doesn't always work and sometimes there are unintended consequences but we do try to avoid those as much as we can
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 30 Apr
I don't mean to imply that no one is trying to do the right thing. I know plenty of government workers and some do have legitimately good intentions.
My point is more that there's no reason to give government actions the benefit of the doubt. Even if people of good will were responsible for pushing something, it likely got enacted for non-altruistic reasons. That could be as mundane as placating the public.
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18 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 30 Apr
Oh yeah esp I would say one that is centralized and authoritative like the CCP is
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