• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Bad sign for westerners when even Bloomberg is acknowledging this

      A few years ago McKinsey, or one of the other consulting ghoul firms, did a report that basically refuted the Chinese colonialism accusations. I knew when I read it that if even the consultants have no choice but to acknowledge it, it would only be a matter of time before media did too.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, this is basically a push away from "evil Chinese, dumb Africans!" To "hey let's do the marshall plan again to prevent the scheming Chinese from using authoriarianism to undermine global neoliberal dictatorship"

    • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I think even the Atlantic put out an article last year where they laid to rest the idea of Chinese debt trap diplomacy too. They even fact checked that whole "China took over a Sri Lankan port" thing and found it to be complete BS.

    • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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      3 years ago

      My conspiracy brain says that this is a standard parcel of western journalism: quietly put out a retraction so when they're called out in the future they can go "Actually we admitted that we were wrong so we never lied :)"

      Like with the "Chinese ghost town/Potemkin village" story. Years ago western media did a blitz on it and put the idea on the public consciousness, then in the past couple years they issues stories about how the ghost cities are full now that did not got as much traction as the original ghost town stories