https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/the-us-loses-to-russia-and-china-in-popularity-across-africa/x0vw06p

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
        hexbear
        18
        2 months ago

        I mean China is also getting financial benefits from this. Nothing is free. But their way of financial gain doesn’t involve dropping bombs on families and insulting the native residents

        • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
          hexbear
          4
          2 months ago

          Who would have guessed that entering mutually beneficial relationships would foster a greater sense of friendship and loyalty than lopsided ones based on extraction and enforced with the threat of violence?

          Lucy insists that China is gonna pull a football-lucy any day now.

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          hexbear
          3
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          It gets especially funny because "fair trade benefitting both sides" is one of the core tenets of liberalism and the one that is actually true, just libs never intended for it to be a fair trade and by now they cannot even imagine such thing in theory.