• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    China may improve infrastructure in exchange for exclusive access to rare earth metal mines and other natural resources.

    They are basically colonizing Africa and developing countries.

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      1 hour ago

      while also extracting resources

      That’s what I said.

      Even if they are “colonizing”, they’re doing a far better and more equitable job of it than the Western world’s treating them like peasantry to be exploited.

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          6 minutes ago

          I didn’t say it was good. I said it was better than the despot-creating tactics the Western world has been using for more than a century. You do understand that it can be better than before but not a good thing overall at the same time, right?