In the upheaval of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs, China is seeking common cause with jilted partners of the United States as it tries to extend its influence and take center stage in a new trade order — rebuilt without Washington.
In the upheaval of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs, China is seeking common cause with jilted partners of the United States as it tries to extend its influence and take center stage in a new trade order — rebuilt without Washington.
Africa would like a word.
And Sri Lanka
Care to explain? I have a difficult time imagining Chinese military actions in Africa.
A river died
Just one example of their bad acting. No worse really than the western world has done, but certainly no better
Yeah that is terrible. It does seem like a common occurrence though when it comes to industrial mining, no matter who runs the operation.
Which was the whole point of the thread: it doesn’t matter by which power you get exploited, China doesn’t give a fuck about other countries either and they’ll happily fuck up other countries’ environments.
I don’t think that this is point of the thread. China isn’t looking to replace the US as the global hegemon. Australian mining companies also create ecological disasters abroad, but nobody confuses this with Aussie world domination.
Let’s talk about textile then!
https://link.springer.com/article/10.2991/jat.k.201126.001
This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990–2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a significant positive impact during the first period, this effect disappeared in the second period. From 2009 to 2017, the impact became significantly negative.
Nevermind that, let’s talk about nortel and huawei!
https://nationalpost.com/news/exclusive-did-huawei-bring-down-nortel-corporate-espionage-theft-and-the-parallel-rise-and-fall-of-two-telecom-giants
Which is the perfect moment to talk about…
https://electrek.co/2025/03/19/chinese-authorities-delay-approval-byd-ev-plant-mexico-fears-tech-leaking-us/
Why would chinese ever be afraid of other people copying them? Unless they know what might happen because they… did it?
We can also talk about tibet, sri lanka, australia, new zealand, hong kong, taiwan, maynmar, russian sanction’s… the list is quite long.
Never said military actions. China has been trying to establish economic hegemony in Africa for a while via giant loans for infrastructure projects that the nations in question could never possibly repay. Of course, the terms of the loan establish that if the nation defaults, China immediately gains control over all assets built with the money.
https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2023/09/18/a-new-state-of-lending-chinese-loans-to-africa/ This has some fun charts about the phenomenon.
Economic coercion requires the threat of military force. When I hear the phrase “boot on the neck” I’m imagining a soldier’s boot.
Oh shit, I forgot that China doesn’t have a military.
Maybe you forgot that they don’t send it all over the world, unlike certain other countries.
shrug The US uses their military to establish economic hegemony, China uses economics to establish economic hegemony. The result is the same. Nice goalposts you got there, by the way.
The military is used to establish and maintain economic supremacy. See any time a country moves to nationalize US “interests”. Without the threat of military force (direct or proxy), the supremacy can’t be maintained. Maybe China will behave the same way at some point, but at this point it’s little more than projection to suggest so. Shrug all you want.
You’re stuck in the 20th century, my friend. Every nation with nuclear weapons no longer has to actually deploy anyone. The threat alone is enough to make the point. You’re never going to listen, but I hope one day you figure it out.