Well I mean… I sure hope not. I personally don’t see any reason to think it’s anything other than China trying to gain support from nations that are on the fence or don’t care about them, which to be clear is not a bad thing. They’re free to pursue any relations they desire, and the other nations are free to do the same. Hopefully the politicians involved are truly working for the betterment of both countries.
That said, the person making the shady deal would clearly say “it’s not a shady deal”, and the person duped by aforementioned shady deal would obviously not want to admit being duped by said shady deal. So everyone involved has every reason to say this anyway.
In other words: a lot of words to ultimately say nothing. Much like this comment.
Al you need to do is look at the testimonies of other countries. Let’s not pretend that all we can do is shrug and say we’ve no reason to make a reasoned assumption either way.
There’s plenty of goodwill built up at this point for China.
Well I mean… I sure hope not. I personally don’t see any reason to think it’s anything other than China trying to gain support from nations that are on the fence or don’t care about them, which to be clear is not a bad thing. They’re free to pursue any relations they desire, and the other nations are free to do the same. Hopefully the politicians involved are truly working for the betterment of both countries.
That said, the person making the shady deal would clearly say “it’s not a shady deal”, and the person duped by aforementioned shady deal would obviously not want to admit being duped by said shady deal. So everyone involved has every reason to say this anyway.
In other words: a lot of words to ultimately say nothing. Much like this comment.
still not beating the liberalism allegations
Al you need to do is look at the testimonies of other countries. Let’s not pretend that all we can do is shrug and say we’ve no reason to make a reasoned assumption either way.
There’s plenty of goodwill built up at this point for China.
https://x.com/luo_yuehan/status/1684646642316636162
https://x.com/real1maria/status/1625390102963802112
https://socialistchina.org/2022/02/03/justin-podur-why-comparing-chinese-africa-investment-to-western-colonialism-is-no-joke/