• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    While true, you don’t think China hasn’t done the same thing to other countries?

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think it needs to when they can buy influence with cheap loans from their development bank for the Belt and Road Initiative, especially when they keep forgiving loans that can’t be paid back instead of forcing austerity down countries’ throats like the World Bank and IMF.

      Countries that are pro-China just have a material interest in their relationship with China. Why bother with an influence campaign?

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        8 months ago

        You seriously think the country that has its own citizens spy on each other for social points doesn’t spy on and try to influence other countries? Lol Come on.