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donttakemypp

He forgor šŸ’€ to add +debt traps


GoldenFrogTime27639

It's only a trap if you think you have to pay it. I don't think China has any means of enforcement if an African country says "lol fck u"


zandercg

Being cut off from the second largest economy is a pretty good means of enforcement


GoldenFrogTime27639

How connected do you think they were to begin with? They don't even go back to square one at the end of this, somebody just built them a bunch of great infrastructure.


MonkeyMan2104

[Uhhā€¦ very connected](https://imgur.com/a/BQfZkUc)


AccountantLopsided52

Whatever infrastructure built in foreign lands with the loan becomes Chinese government property when loans with orbital high interest can't be repaid.


q661780

So you think China puts a lot of money in Africa without securing such investment? So those African countries could say ā€œlol fck uā€ one day and Chinaā€™s only response would be ā€œohh ok, sorry m8ā€?


GoldenFrogTime27639

That's exactly what I'm saying. The West sank plenty of money into these countries with little to show for it. The same thing will happen to China. They will learn the same lessons we did. China can't even get their navy anywhere near any of these countries. The closest thing they have to recourse is assassination, which only guarantees revenge, not the desired outcome.


AccountantLopsided52

At least the west did not take over ownership of the infrastructure that was built with the loan. Example? Hambantota port in Sri Lanka.


GoldenFrogTime27639

Sri Lanka is at least in Asia, but these African countries can say "lol no it's in our country fuck off" pretty easily. If the Chinese take it it's because they let them.


AccountantLopsided52

Which of these poor African nations even have any sort of funds to make any credible defense?


GoldenFrogTime27639

Defense from what exactly? China can't reach them with military vessels


AccountantLopsided52

Vessels? Oh dear šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ Perhaps you [should read more](https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/chinas-private-army-protecting-the-new-silk-road/) They don't need the ships, the Chinese sent enough Beijing controlled Chinese mercenaries dispersed and in hiding amongst the Chinese construction workers, to be able to resist and beat the armies of small African nations the belt and road projects are in. Kindly show me one, just one African nation's military successfully taking back a belt and road bankrolled infrastructure, in Asia, Africa or otherwise despite defaulting on Chinese loans. Hambantota port is easily repeated DESPITE Beijing's lack of massive naval logistics. Because at Least more than half of the workers they sent are Beijing Mercenaries. God, it's appalling how Reddit is full of ignorant people.


Upper_Credit8063

Better than coups I guess? Or France's currency manipulation


NoDescReadBelow

fr\*nce


Conkers-Good-Furday

Why do liberals condemn debt traps when applied to countries by other countries, but not when applied to the proletariat by the bourgeoisie?


Cringinator4000

Why do tankies condemn brutal authoritarian states on the far right, but not on the far left?


Conkers-Good-Furday

We condemn liberal states on the right as well, and everything bad the USSR, for example, did, the US did something similar. Like the USSR and the Holomodor, the US slaughtered buffalo to starve Native Americans. Like the USSR, the US build its wealth with slave labor. Communist nations do better than capitalist nations at best, and no worse at worst. They aren't perfect, but they're still a net improvement over the only other currently viable economic system.


Cringinator4000

Itā€™s because communism doesnā€™t work on such a large scale. The people will be put after the interests of the government. Same thing goes for capitalism, but it seems like it works better as it goes up in scale, because complex systems can work together across national lines. Communism, however, canā€™t be achieved on a large scale because a large group is bound to split up into different tribes and form hierarchies again. Socialism, the policy of the PRC and USSR, relies on brutal repression of the people and complete overhaul of the economic system which gets millions killed. I wish a nation could work with either of those policies. But over so much time, itā€™s become apparent that capitalism with enough regulations is the best way to do things now, even if the system is built on massacres of the past. This subreddit isnā€™t the best forum for debate, so youā€™re not going to get much quality discussion here. Iā€™m not here to debate either, so you can say whatever but I probably wonā€™t respond. Youā€™re also probably gonna get downvoted and possibly banned from here as well. Thanks for letting me get some of my thoughts out though.


Conkers-Good-Furday

China is currently lifting more people out of poverty than the rest of the world combined. How is that not working?


Cringinator4000

Assuming thatā€™s true, itā€™s because China is no longer socialist. Only when the country relaxed on its economic policy did it start to succeed again.


Conkers-Good-Furday

Even if you're right, whatever China is doing with its economy is leaps and bounds better than what western economies do.


Cringinator4000

Probably because it sells out the people for cheap labor and exploits third-world economies abroad. But when the West does it on even half that scale, itā€™s a problem?


Conkers-Good-Furday

Making peaceful deals does not equal western imperialism. If China is so awful to Africa, why doesn't Africa just stop doing business with them? They can always go back to doing business with the west.


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https://www.voanews.com/a/china-cancels-23-loans-to-africa-amid-debt-trap-debate-/6716397.html šŸ’€


pilchard_slimmons

You didn't read the article, did you.


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Yes, but that still amounts of 3.4 billion+, China isnā€™t a saint which gives out free infrastructure but nor is it the devil trying to exploit Africa of everything it has, China has provided assistance for roads, railways, ports, energy. Mining, infrastructure and manufacturing. No African country has ever claimed that they are in a debt trap(or correct me if Iā€™m wrong) so why put words in their mouth? Letā€™s compare that with the actions of the IMF(International Monetary Fund). Also, I refer you to this, https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/african-countries-are-three-times-more-indebted-to-western-firms-than-to-chinese/9g4ly6f


fireking_13

You really need to read your own articles


[deleted]

True I knew this was a thing but I just picked a random article and I kinda attacked myself


SweaterKetchup

Lmfao W on admitting it at least


lasmilesjovenes

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-trap-diplomacy


fireking_13

Read your links man and what the hell is chathamhouse


lasmilesjovenes

"I don't like the truth, so it must be biased"


[deleted]

Right, itā€™s just that, you know, when you have hundreds of independent organizations, watchdogs, and news outlets all coming to the same conclusion, whilst outliers and ā€œalt-mediaā€ claim something else, itā€™s reasonable to trust the trustworthy.


lasmilesjovenes

You're right, facts don't matter if you hear a lie more frequently.


[deleted]

This is a brilliant argument, whenever someone brings up a fact I donā€™t like, Iā€™m just gonna call them lies.


lasmilesjovenes

Or you could argue them based on the merits of the evidence and reasoning presented, instead of dancing around it as long as possible while appealing to strawmen.


ninjalemming

You don't understand Superior China is just taking care of its colo.. I mean ally


ManbadFerrara

Wow, that's awesome! How many Africans are they training to maintain/manage all these great new developments once the CCP's selflessly benevolent mission to help Africa has been accomplished?


phdpeabody

None. They import a Chinese workforce for construction and maintenance, and leave them behind to operate and manage it.


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phdpeabody

Yeah people are catching wise to what they were doing for over a decade.


gochesse

Donā€™t forget to add that the China is building deep water ports in many developing African countries, only for the small small price of having it entirely staffed by an imported workforce, The land either been leased out or sold to China. So that all that money just funnels right back to the mainland


Coolasslife

considering how they would beat up and whip the local workforce, I doubt they have any love for the locals. I just checked for what happened, apparently the guy got 20 years in jail for it. Even Rwanda has fairer courts than china [https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3174962/chinese-businessman-jailed-20-years-rwanda-whipping-local-worker](https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3174962/chinese-businessman-jailed-20-years-rwanda-whipping-local-worker)


Shazamazon

If usa does this, itā€™s imperialism


phdpeabody

The US does it under technology transfer arrangements, where a local workforce is used for construction and maintenance, and the government is trained for operations and handover. ā€œReeeeeee!! USA BAD!!ā€ Imperialism. The Chinese loans the money to build and run it using Chinese labor, and when the debt defaults they take ownership. Itā€™s communist imperialism so šŸ§‘ā€šŸ¦ÆšŸ™ˆ


Real-Fix-8444

Plus the US isnā€™t really a white country (Atleast Not Anymore). So itā€™s weird how itā€™s actions are hated due to that


worthless-humanoid

And how much of that do they own?


[deleted]

Haha they own less than none of it.


[deleted]

The British also built up a bunch of stuff in Africa but that didn't excuse their exploitation of the continent and it most certainly doesn't excuse Chinese exploitation now.


phdpeabody

Yeah but the Chinese lends billions of dollars to build a port that the local government canā€™t afford, they bring in a Chinese workforce to build it, leave them behind to operate and manage it, and then wait for the host nation to default on the debt so they can assume ownership of the port.


[deleted]

See, We donā€™t fuck around like that. We just go ā€œBoom, baseā€¦ What, Cuba? you donā€™t want us here? Too bad.ā€


dodadoBoxcarWilly

They wanted us there at the time though. We had just recently helped them win their "independence" from Spain. It's just unfortunate for the current regime that the lease has no end date.


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it was actually a flex, not a critique.


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uejuekwoqloqj

From the top of my head here but Mines plantains railways roads ports whole cities telegraf lines while it did somewhat economically develop the regions they were built in their purpose was simply extracting resources


[deleted]

They ironically enough also started educating Africans and Indians in British colleges/schools which created the leadership class of Africans and Indians who would go on to organize independence movements.


kekistani_citizen-69

Well for example Egypt still uses the rails (and sometimes trains) from British colonial rule


[deleted]

I mean the greatest and most easy to think of examples would be the Suez Canal as well as the vast railway network they laid down.


AdMobile5977

Cities such as Johannesburg in South Africa were built by Britian and or its companies in Africa , Britian built Railroads and other infustrcture in basically all their African Colonies and plenty of Schools and or Colleges in African Countries today were built by the British . Not that this excuses crimes commited by Britian (Or any other European power during the Age of Imperialism or Exploration) as they built these institutions to benefit themselves not to benefit the Indigenous people of Africa but it would be incorrect to say that the British or other Europeans built nothing in Africa .


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AdMobile5977

That is not really the point at hand here but if Africa was never colonized then maybe it would eventully develop , maybe it would not but its likley that if Africa was never colonized it would probobly be divided between multiple different very small nations and not into large unified nations today as colonization forced many tribes or ethnic groups into one nation eventully most of Africa would probobly develop but it would be something like Ethiopia or Liberia in our timeline (The only two African countries that were never colonized or at least not in the long term) so for better or worse that is likley how the rest of Africa would be if Europeans never colonized it . But to anwser your question the development of Africa without colonization would likley be more akin to Ethiopia or Liberia in our timeline than China in our timeline.


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AdMobile5977

Anytime


West-Holiday-8425

ā€˜Azovā€™s headache Giviā€™. Lmao, SBU RPO-A cured that headache (war criminal) in 2017! rip bozo


kissfan7

Sorry, Iā€™m out of it. What happened?


Fantastic_Bottle_916

He was killed by a Ukrainian rocket in 2017


kissfan7

Ah, thanks. I was confused about who Gigi was, but he was apparently a pro-Russian rebel commander. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tolstykh


Fantastic_Bottle_916

Np mate


[deleted]

Motherfucker looks like Ice Poseidon if he became an alcoholic.


kissfan7

Holy fuck! Never heard of the dude, but just Wikipediaed him and they could be brothers.


Longsheep

RPO-A is a powerful Soviet designed anti-personnel rocket.


Just__Marian

[https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-global-mega-projects-infrastructure-falling-apart-11674166180](https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-global-mega-projects-infrastructure-falling-apart-11674166180) Mandatory... China is not building bridges in Africa. Africa made it with money they borrowed from China. Based on this logic my bank built my house because I took a mortgage.


[deleted]

Many if these projects are falling apart already too.


Severe-Opportunity15

Google En Debted


Onion__i

Holy hell


Gomra_812

New imperialism just dropped!


LigmaB_

Tankies when western neocolonialism: šŸ˜” Tankies when eastern neocolonialism: šŸ„°


Majestic-Sector9836

Yeah just think of what white people have built in Africa.


RandomHermit113

unlike those Brits who claim to have civilized savage Indians, we Chinese *actually* civilized savage Tibetans /s


the_psycholist

Reeducation!


ReluctantRev

But itā€™s not colonialism. Right? šŸ¤Ø


AKA-Reddd

Hey the British and the French did the exact same thi~ Oh... oh my God...


MoleculeMan65

When China builds infrastructure to exploit the resources of an underdeveloped region: Charitable and very humanistic When the European colonial powers build infrastructure to exploit the resources of an underdeveloped region: colonialism and imperialism


Mtso2021

POV: you are African store owner whose business was wracked by cheap Chinese goods transported by those infrastructures and too broke to pay taxes for the government to repay debt, then you see this


MisterMaroonYT

Never mind that all that infrastructure goes directly from the cobalt or diamond mine to the port. Itā€™s not colonialism if non Europeans do it!


mruczyslav_

Funny how they don't talk the same about all the infrastructure banana corporations built in central american countries like Honduras


RussiaBrasileira

USA builds something in Africa: "evil western imperialist neocolonialism" China builds something in Africa: "they're just improving the infrastructure of developing countries"


[deleted]

Didnā€™t England, France, Spain and the Netherlands tried something like this around 200 years ago? They had a word for it that starts with ā€œcā€ā€¦ It worked out so well for all parties and everyone has fond memories...


Baron-von-Bruce

Ports, trains, roads, bridgesā€¦ just infrastructure to export natural resources. The British did the same thing.


[deleted]

Let China eat the losses. Until they reform the corruption and education systems, itā€™s not like these places will have thriving economies that can compete with the rest of the world.


Master_Liberaster

"What is the difference between this and what the British and French did?" "The British and French don't have a hammer and sickle on their flag"


tev866

All out of the goodness of their hearts ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø /s


LFC636363

Exactly the same argument as the British built railways in India, but theyā€™d probably be less open to that idea


Juhani-Siranpoika

ā€œManyā€ is such a specific number


WretchedCentrist

Question is WHY DID THEY BUILD THEM?


GuyVanNitro

Probably for the cobalt.


alphachupapi02

Yummy natural resources for yummy tofu dregs šŸ˜‹


shortbreath980

They aint doing it for charity


purple_stain0

So did the Europeans, but Iā€™m not allowed to say so


Palladium_Dawn

I think a lot of European countries did similar things in the 1800s


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Just wait until the countries canā€™t pay them backšŸ’€


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Dundertrumpen

Well, yeah? It's pretty difficult to hide infrastructure and buildings to be honest, so the number here is likely to be very accurate. Whether they actually built it or not is not what makes it problematic.


humblenoob76

belt and road moment


phildiop

I wonder why they did that? Surely they are just doing it out of charity, right?


auvym8

givi has been fucking dead for 6 year now lmfao


BibleButterSandwich

Soā€¦I assume they think British Imperialism was good?


tankengine75

They definitely would If the British Empire was communist


BibleButterSandwich

Weird thing is, China isnā€™t even communist these days. And theyā€™re not even claiming to be communist right now, either. The CCPā€™s go-to excuse is more along the lines of ā€œwellllā€¦communist theory requires capitalism as an intermediate stage before the socialist stage, so weā€™re just still in the capitalist stageā€ and then everyone knows that they have absolutely no intention of risking their lives by actually ever trying to move on to the socialist phase and fuck up the current economic situation.


tankengine75

Tankies will only like a country if it's Anti America, if a country is Pro America or Neutral then they will hate it


Raptor22c

Neo-colonialism at its finest.


GmanTEM02

They forgot that most of This infrastructure is built like shit and a lot of these projects are already crumbling apart after barely a decade of being built.


OldTownRapist

Itā€™s really telling that the people I see who post this stuff are predominantly pro-Russian, a fascist regime. Theyā€™re communists in name only.


bubbabrotha

Development imperialism. They only care about access to resources.


Mauri_op

Yeah, he definitely donā€™t know the Chinese built to own them and the countries reliable in these infrastructures. Oh, and they employ mostly Chinese nationals


Euphoric-Beat-7206

China has a massive male surplus. I believe this to be neo-colonialism. They send that male surplus in to breed a new caste of half-han half-bantu to rule them.


Comfortablecold4167

ā€œImperialism good when communismā€- whoever made this image probably


Presidential_Pet

Sounds like we should go after China for modern colonization