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  • This article just ignores non Chinese debt though? Which form the larger share in Pakistan.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_Pakistan#:~:text=About 15%25 of the external,expected to provide additional support

    And for Sri Lanka, China has offered relief which also led to the IMF also negotiating debt relief with Sri Lanka.

    https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-reiterates-support-for-sri-lankas-debt-relief-ahead-of-crucial-imf-review/article67205470.ece

    I agree with Zambia, the Chinese didn't play nicely there and acted quite hawkishly. But they did restructure the debt in June when western lenders agreed to do the same.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/zambia-reaches-watershed-deal-on-china-debt-2392593a

    Also read.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/&ved=2ahUKEwivnvGrx6CBAxXeSGwGHQvBAUsQFnoECBwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2qJ4QHCHowToj-iq2Irs9y

    Also your article doesn't really talk about events that lead to the economies of Pakistan and Sri Lanka ( Countrywide floods and covid killing tourism respectively) crashing and implies that it's entirely china's fault. I think they are quite important when talking about dying economies.

    Also would like to add that this still doesn't compare to European Colonialism.

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  • China unironically has been more helpful to African development in the past few decades than Europe in the past few centuries. Mostly because China wants Africa to be turned into a prosperous region and serve as customers to China meanwhile the west has been focused on wealth extraction from day one.

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  • Okay I read your comment wrong. Sorry about that.

    But referring to your thread on hexbear, it seems that they are intent on speaking bad about Biden rather than supporting trump. Which is fair since Biden and the Democratic Party have been involved in destruction of millions of lives.

    The problem here seems to be American culture where you have to treat one side as the devil and one side as the god. Anyone slightly in between is accused of worshipping the devil.

    You're correct without doubt that under conservatives, bigoted policies may increase. But they are also increasing under the Democrats albeit slowly. They are barely doing anything as rights get taken away and it's necessary to call them out for it. I can see trans rights getting demolished under any future administration because the political system in the US works against the interests of minorities.

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