Infected Mushroom wrote:It ignores the cultural context (imperialism is not the Chinese way) and the economic realities of the business
China had thousands of years of imperialism, maybe wiki has articles on that. It was literally the Chinese way for thousands of years.
Why wouldnt the Chinese economically exploit people? What makes them immune to such motivations?
What economic realities? It's clear that the Chinese leverage enormous investment on risky conditions(Myanmar wont own the major pipeline going from Indian Ocean to China, they've basically leased the land and on certain conditions the territory legally is China's). The Chinese bring their own workers in their development projects, it's a major source of contention in Malaysia and South Africa, because the locals don't even get paid to build the damn thing. Chinese are not altruistic just cause they're Chinese. They're exploiting them. The countries need infrastructure and they get exploited on unfair terms. You know, the kind of deals China used to hate being imposed on it by outsiders?