• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      "Heh, nice try President of South Africa, but I think I know a little something about African-Chinese diplomacy from all the feddit articles whose headline and preview paragraph I've read."

    • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      South Africa: "this is not a debt trap"

      China: "this is not a debt trap"

      The most smug person you've ever heard: "mmm, isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Are the terms of the loans secret or something? With western debt traps we can point to the austerity measures and such... are they even accusing China of anything specific?