Can’t expect today’s “journalists” to know those fancy words. And apparently it costs too much to hire an English teacher part time to proofread.

Countries in debt to China include the United States, of course. China is number two among holders of U.S. foreign debt, holding 15.5% of the total.

Most likely those were corrupt government officials who got bought off by China.

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) working as it should. There is just no downside to the Chinese if the loan gets paid or not. Chinese state owned companies are doing the work, and if you don’t pay, then Chinese courts have a say over your countryside. No need for invasion! Brilliant! Your really can’t go wrong when…

You may be wondering why China is building such a beautiful road to nowhere in a Balkan country in the first place.

“effectively succeeding influence in the region to China, policy researchers told NPR”

The US led a humanitarian mission that literally stabilized the Balkans and the CCP is currently running concentration camps, maybe this isn’t the place to insert your US intervention hobby horse.

Yeah it’s idiotic to point to some arbitrary date in history and say, “your ancestors did this” or “your ancestors beat our ancestors up” as an excuse to commit your own crimes.

And people blame china for taking out a page of ye olde western colonial playbook and using it themselves lol

Yeah, but do you honestly think China’s going to pass the savings along to Montenegro? With the stipulation that Montenegro would have to surrender that land to China, this was never anything more than a plan to swindle a bunch of idiots and their constituents out of their land.

You didn’t mention the Number One innovation of Tesla, which was the “supercharger” network. No wide-spread public charger network means no mass market for electric cars. It’s so central to the success of EVs that I can almost - but not quite - forgive them for calling the chargers “Superchargers.”

That’s because you’re thinking in western developed terms.

Unfortunately it’s like speaking out against your boss: You’d better be damned sure of your exit strategy before you do, because the consequences will suck if you’re unprepared.

I mean as terrible as it was for the countries that were under the thumb of colonialism...the model absolutely worked for the great powers of the time. Chin is simply running the same brutal playbook because they can. 

I think you mean “ceding” influence to China.

The countries in debt to China seem to have keep their mouth shut regarding China’s Uighur slavery/genocide actions too. I guess you don’t want the Chinese to jack up the Interest rate to 200% or something.

Yeah, or China will get a port city out of all this, like how the Brits did with Hong Kong.

Not only does BRI build up infrastructure in less developed nations and give China’s construction companies something to do as building slows down at home, but such infrastructure allows Chinese-backed companies to extract the natural resources from those nations more efficiently. (This is not greatly different…

If Montenegro builds a highway to Mont Blanc, what would you see along the way?

Yep, GM could have been the leader now, but they weren’t able to see the project through.