• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    How they can’t see the belt and road initiative as an attempt at establishing hegemony blows my mind. They really think China is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

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      5 months ago

      It’s Empowering the Global South to create a United Front against Western Neoliberal Imperialism™

      I don’t know if it’s fortunate or unfortunate that China is in the process of learning the old lesson of “If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem”.