I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone from Lemmy.ml admit something negative about China.
To me it seems that the US, China, and Russia are all behaving imperialistically, which is pretty worrying.
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bobo@lemmy.ml 2 days agoGiving all power to China, would corrupt it almost instantly, and turn it into USA V2.
China is already extremely corrupt, they’re simply using militarised corruption instead of a military to exploit developing countries.
moderatecentrist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
edible_funk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’ll be the first world war that isn’t just an overblown family dispute.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
“when you think about it, China trading with other countries is just as bad as us carpet bombing them”
bobo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Yeah it’s great we built the most expensive highway in the world using Chinese prison labour, on Chinese loans, and it’s falling apart less then a year in. It’s perfectly fine that there are a 1000 different schemes draining the budget and literally killing people with tofu dreg construction. I guess we should feel lucky Chinese companies will take over national parks, waterways, and exploit every single resource until there’s only a toxic wasteland left…
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Source for any of those claims?
bobo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The same group that’s talked about in the first article has built the highway I’m talking about, but I can’t find an article with a good overview.
Google “developing countries debt trap China” and you’ll find plenty of articles on the overall scheme, this are just some examples from my country.
balkaninsight.com/…/modus-operandi-chinese-firms-…
serbia-business.eu/ssp-criticizes-slow-pace-and-h…
balkaninsight.com/…/like-prisoners-chinese-worker…
balkaninsight.com/…/us-bans-imports-from-chinese-…
greeneuropeanjournal.eu/chinas-rush-for-serbias-m…
Then we have the tragedy that started off the mass protests to take down the corrupt regime
en.wikipedia.org/…/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canop…
chinaobservers.eu/the-novi-sad-railway-station-co…
If you don’t like my sources, you know what to search for now, this is just what I found quickly.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
China built infrastructure in Venezuela and paid for their oil. The US kidnapped their leader and claimed all of Venezuela’s oil.
I think I prefer one over the other.
bobo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Sure, they built a shit load of infrastructure here as well. For example we had the most expensive highway built by Chinese prisoners, and paid for by Chinese loans. It not only started to show wear less then a year in, but there are sections that are literally expected to collapse.
We had the most expensive reconstruction done by Chinese workers, the ceiling collapsed and killed a bunch of people.
And so on, etc…
Now they’re in talks to turn over every remaining national resource to them, to cover a part of the great work they’ve done so far, while Chinese companies are literally releasing unprocessed toxic waste into rivers.
It’s nice to have a preference in the taste of the boot standing on your face…
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Even if all of it is true, I’d prefer weak infra and getting paid for my oil over being bombed and having all my oil stolen.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Europe pretends they don’t pollute the environment. The truth is Europe simply moved their polluting industries like steel and concrete production to third world countries. And you have the audacity to blame them for polluting the environment.
The infrastructure cracking might just be your prejudice, meaning you already believed they would be low quality.
The truth is they built 30,000 bridges in Guizhou province of China. China has the largest population in the world. Some bridges have fallen, but it’s because Guizhou province is a mountainous region, prone to earthquakes.
About slave labour, Chinese labour is paid more than Indian labour but I’ve never heard anyone call Indian labour slaves. It implies, it’s just CIA propaganda to bad mouth China. To be fair, their low wage is enough to live a better life than most Americans since everything is so cheap in China.
bobo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
So I should be fine with Chinese companies doing whatever they want in my country?Tire factory releasing toxic waste directly into a river? Not a problem… The absolute ecological destruction from a copper strip mine? It’s an improvement over farmland and forests…
Sure buddy, 16 dead people is my prejudice. A railroad bridge with breaking supports must be my racism. Tofu dreg practices like filling cracked foundations with foam must be the standard in developing countries?
Read again, PRISON labour. And I don’t need the CIA to see the prison camps with my own eyes, and I most definitely don’t need it to smell the camps in the winter since they have no hot water. Again, standard practice in the developing world, we’re certainly not the first to have imported Chinese prisoners…