[valval]

I love this condescending and infantilising tone of yours, regarding African governments as some gullible, uneducated bunches of toddlers that anyone can just walk in and take advantage of - as if they weren’t perfectly capable of signing their own deals.

Fitting such casual “Africa dumb” and “China evil” sentiments in one nonchalant comment seems like such a weird specialty of this brainwashing and propaganda that we have going on in the West.

[JumpCrisscross]

> regarding African governments as some gullible, uneducated bunches of toddlers

They’re not stupid, they’re corrupt. The elites get a slice of the pie. It’s how development finance has been done for centuries. “Stakeholders” are bought off. The country is left with the bill.

[quickthrowman]

Exactly. And if a ruler’s elite supporters find out he turned down Chinese loans that he could’ve used to give his elite supporters lots of free money, they’ll remove him from power and put someone else in that will take the loan money and pay it out to the elites.

CGPGrey has a great video called ‘Rules for Rulers’ that explains this in depth: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

[ethbr0]

> corrupt

To quantify the statement,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Corruption_Barometer

[peteradio]

You are the only one saying "Africa Dumb" and "China Evil". How is Africa supposed to maintain and extend roads without the expertise in their local population? Or are you saying they do have this expertise?

[jollofricepeas]

Nah.

This is just usury and loan sharking on a global scale.

Substitute Southeast Asia for Africa.

China is pretty much providing payday loans and debt trap diplomacy to poorer countries (149+) in order to consolidate power.

This has nothing to do with sophistication but everything to do with greed.

[CyberDildonics]

I love this condescending and infantilising tone of yours

Fitting such casual “Africa dumb” and “China evil”

None of this happened, you are hallucinating what other people said.