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Nothing’s wrong with building infrastructure. Why would it be?

What’s wrong is the financing scheme that makes the infrastructure effectively Chinese national property. And when China can decide how and when a country’s infrastructure can be used, China gets a lot of influence in that country’s domestic politics. And it does use that influence.

USA destroying Iraq doesn’t make China any less colonial. China helping rebuild Iraq in a way that will make Iraq a vassal of China… That does make China more colonial.

USA should absolutely focus on itself. And it will do it much more than before, because now that it has decided to cut its international soft power, it does not really have other options, does it? :)

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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

What’s wrong is the financing scheme that makes the infrastructure effectively Chinese national property. And when China can decide how and when a country’s infrastructure can be used, China gets a lot of influence in that country’s domestic politics. And it does use that influence.

Source: The American Burger-freedom foundation for advanced jingoism research. That $1,600,000,000 the US government earmarked for anti-China propaganda definition getting returns.

USA destroying Iraq doesn’t make China any less colonial.

No, but it demonstrates there’s a vast, vast difference between actual colonial violence, and the bullshit that American chauvinists try to describe as colonialism.

China helping rebuild Iraq in a way that will make Iraq a vassal of China… That does make China more colonial.

“Yes, America destroying an entire country and killing hundreds of thousands of people is bad, but have you considered that China helping to rebuild that country is actually just as bad?”

Ghoul. You are a ghoul.

And it will do it much more than before

And thank God for that: the world doesn’t need amoral monsters who think that building infrastructure is the same thing as mass bombing and murder fucking with the rest of the world.

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- Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m sorry but you sound pike the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”.
  
  China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as well, with the precisely same kind of loan arrangements. And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.
  
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  - BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    I’m sorry but you sound pike the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”
    
    What the fuck kind of argument is that? “Oh you sound like the people who say [completely unrelated thing with no resemblence].” OK then, well you sound like the people who say that black people should be sterilized.
    
    China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as wel
    
    Infrastructure projects? Oh GOD NO! THE HUMANITY! THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE CARPET BOMBING HELSINKI!
    
    And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.
    
    Yeah, building infrastructure is exactly like invading a country, massacring the natives, and forcibly taking control, definitely.
    
    You’re fucking disgusting, colonialism apologist.
    
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