• geikei [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Well the coal miners are probably employed and payed by a Congolese or other country majority owned structure or company. China might have invested in building the infastructure , sends/has experts for tech transfer and specialization but they rarely own the place. A lot of time, at least in my country, the created capital and "means of productions" stays in majority ownership with the home country and not CHina. So China wont dictate or decide how the Congolese workers are payed or even treated by a not majority Chinese state owned company. Maybe during the construction of infastructure they do on some level , but generaly not.

    You can see Varoufakis talking about how in the deals with China for various projects and infastructure in Greece the deals the previous government made werent worker friendly and he went to the (state owned) chinese company and said "if you want the deal and projects there will have to be strong labour protections, committing to dozens of millions to the development of the communities around the project, even larger % of capital staying in Greek hands afterwards etc" expecting for the deal to fail and for it to be some harsh negotiation but the Chinese were "sure ok no problem, terms like these were always possible for you to set" .