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Except that it’s not. China’s development has been overwhelmingly peaceful, and China has played a positive role around the globe helping many other nations develop and improve their standard of living. On the other hand, the US has been at war throughout all of its miserable existence, and is responsible for carrying out countless crimes against humanity around the globe. It remains the greatest threat to human existence today.

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See? You could have said that instead of posting falsified maps

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the map is far more accurate than it is not though

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the map is far more accurate than it is not though

Come on, Yog, we can hold ourselves to a higher standard than this. It’d be so easy to just color in Vietnam and then you’d be set, but by posting it in its current form you are actively lying.

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Eh, I think you can illustrate your point a bit better, comrade. The map goes from good agitprop to bad when it is counterable by liberals and leftists alike. I agree with your general point on this post, so I don’t think the point itself is bad, but it could be better elaborated on with an actual map that shows what it says it does. Just my opinion.

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One 😂😂😂 bit is the way it even uses a purer shade of white for China.

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played a positive role around the globe helping many other nations develop and improve their standard of living

african debt traps intensify

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our civilized and altruistic IMF lending vs their horrifying Chinese extortion schemes!!! 😱

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I love how you trolls just keep regurgitating the same few tropes

my guy your waking life consists of reposting the same 5 talking points

i’d maybe take a moment of quiet reflection

Chinese Investment In Africa Has Had ‘Significant And Persistently Positive’ Long-Term Effects Despite Controversy

“The results show that Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) sets in motion a process of transformation in the local economy that damages local competitors but – at the same time – benefits local suppliers to the new Chinese firms as well as their local clients.”

this is another way of saying that local businesses are destroyed, save from the ones that become functionally chinese subsidiaries

if the west did this you’d be having a meltdown

study on Chinese investments

you know that when a bank restructures a loan for you, it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts, right?

and that’s when they do restructure a loan for you, rather than just letting you default and having your economy explode like happened with sri lanka

no debt trap

guys they didn’t SEIZE a port they merely forced a country to lease it for 99 years at a bargain bin price

China and Africa: Ethiopia case study debunks investment myths

ethiopia literally had to default on their debt after this article was published

https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/assets/documents/research-and-publications/FDI-in-Ethiopia-Crescenzi-Limodio.pdf

see above

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gild/2021/01/26/how-chinese-investment-shape-new-growth-patterns-in-africa/

this is the same as the first link

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-debt-trap-claims-in-africa-stem-from-us-rivalry-study

this is about the port again

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/chinas-infrastructure-investment-helps-fast-track-development-in-africa-expert/

this just says “development good” without defining what that is

the same metric would justify european colonialism of africa

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa/

except for all the cases where they don’t and countries have to default, i guess

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/broadband-business-formation-and-economic-growth-in-the-global-south-assessing-chinas-impact/

this link isn’t relevant

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Put the Kool-Aid down. Stop uncritically accepting propaganda from neocolonial states and their corporate media.

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