No hard feelings dude, I appreciate your genuine input.
I didn’t mean to be so mocking with my first reply to you, I really couldn’t make out what point you were making. My comment before last wasn’t meant to be sarcastic, but I can see how it could come off that way.
You weren’t the one who said it was a debt trap, so no issue there. However I wasn’t saying China was doing this for no reward out of the goodness of their hearts, rather it is something of a mutually beneficial deal for most countries. This is because China is trying to sweet talk them into it - China really wants their resources, and also maybe some strategic advantages, so they’re willing to help build the infrastucture to get it. The only people who could make this a bad deal are the ones negotiating the sale of resources, they have what China wants and as such have the upper hand in the negotiation.
In general, China’s international practices are terrible, in my opinion. You only have to take a brief glance at the South China Sea to see that, or look at Hong Kong, Taiwan or the Uyghur people, or how they basically admitted to harvesting organs from prisoners (at some point they basically said “we’re not doing it anymore”, meanwhile their transplant industry continued its exponential growth). However, when it comes to the Belt & Roads Initiative China isn’t playing the bad guy, as far as I can tell. Doing so would cost them.
That one example doesn’t make them the good guys, of course, but that also doesn’t mean building road and rail through these countries isn’t a good thing.
No hard feelings dude, I appreciate your genuine input.
I didn’t mean to be so mocking with my first reply to you, I really couldn’t make out what point you were making. My comment before last wasn’t meant to be sarcastic, but I can see how it could come off that way.
You weren’t the one who said it was a debt trap, so no issue there. However I wasn’t saying China was doing this for no reward out of the goodness of their hearts, rather it is something of a mutually beneficial deal for most countries. This is because China is trying to sweet talk them into it - China really wants their resources, and also maybe some strategic advantages, so they’re willing to help build the infrastucture to get it. The only people who could make this a bad deal are the ones negotiating the sale of resources, they have what China wants and as such have the upper hand in the negotiation.
In general, China’s international practices are terrible, in my opinion. You only have to take a brief glance at the South China Sea to see that, or look at Hong Kong, Taiwan or the Uyghur people, or how they basically admitted to harvesting organs from prisoners (at some point they basically said “we’re not doing it anymore”, meanwhile their transplant industry continued its exponential growth). However, when it comes to the Belt & Roads Initiative China isn’t playing the bad guy, as far as I can tell. Doing so would cost them.
That one example doesn’t make them the good guys, of course, but that also doesn’t mean building road and rail through these countries isn’t a good thing.
All the best to you, friend.