[alephnerd]

This guy's right.

The BRI is sort of like a hybrid merger of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (in reality controlled and managed by Japan) aimed at LDCs in Asia+Africa which Japan+SK wouldn't touch (either because it's not within Asia, or it's not financially viable).

The same way the ADB would subcontract with Japanese corporations, you'd see BRI contract to Chinese corporations.

That said, the ADB tended to train+hire local staff, while BRI projects tended to mainly hire solely Chinese. And conversely, the ADB would add additional regulations+scrutiny into potential malpractices, malfeasance, and financial viability while BRI financed projects were much more lax with such compliance.

[alephnerd]

Added final paragraph:

This is why JP+SK's FDI has been aimed at more mature markets like India, Indonesia, PH, VN, TH, MY, MX, BR while Chinese FDI is aimed at Laos, Cambodia, Central Africa, Central America, South Asia.