Philippines?
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Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
If you can tell me which countries China is setting up neocolonies to extract all their wealth and resources from, please let me know. Whoever made this meme, please educate yourself.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
flabberjabber@lemmy.world 5 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Much like America’s more usual approach, it’s softer colonialism than what the Brits did.
The difference this time around though is the building of infrastructure. America didn’t do as much of that during its rise or prime. That said, its often just another way to get the nation indebted to China, its not like they’re building the projects for free and often enough the debt is more than the country in question’s economy can handle.
Colonialism is colonialism afterall.
This method is built on political manoeuvring behind the scenes through intelligence assets and corruption with infrastructural incentives masking debt slavery out in the open.
Here’s the list you asked for:
Angola, DRC, Zambia, Sudan, Mozambique, Gabon, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Pakistan Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Iraq and Iran.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
This is pure projection.
China is not debt trapping poor African nations. We can see that this isn’t the case when we can observe countries in BRI engaging in rapid development and industrializing, and this is confirmed by China forgiving tons of debt. The goal of China isn’t to make countries reliant on them, or to earn money from debt, it’s because China gains personally through mutual development. Here are some articles debunking the “debt trap” myth:
Five Imperialist Myths About China’s Role in Africa
China debt trap? PH an ‘expert in bad loans,’ Locsin says
Deborah Brautigam Debunks the Chinese Debt Trap Theory in New Research Paper
China’s Debt Relief for Africa: Emerging Deliberations
There are many more examples I can use. China isn’t doing this out of the goodness of their own heart, but because they stand to gain from mutual development. A more developed global south means China is less reliant on the US Empire as a customer, provides new avenues to facilitate trade, and creates more markets for customers. The west harvests the global south for cheap labor and resources, and we can see hard comparisons in data between BRI participants and those imperialized by the west to see fundamentally different results.
flabberjabber@lemmy.world 4 days ago
All your links are media arms of the Chinese government.
All of your points are quite literally Chinese governmental talking points with no nuance and no analysis from any point of view that isn’t pro-China.
And you call my post projection.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
No? Only 2 are from China, one is from the Philippines and the other is from a Statesian organization. All of my points are from the perspective of a Marxist-Leninist, and they’ll be similar to CPC stances as the CPC is Marxist-Leninist as well. I don’t see how I’m lacking in nuance, I clearly believe what I say and have no interest in lying or presenting a position I don’t feel has sufficient evidence just for “balance.” Your comment is projection because your accusations fit the west far more than they fit China, and that’s based on hard evidence.