chapotraphouse

Yes Chinese private firms often do shady shit, that's bad but it's also sadly part of the process with the Dengist strategy of using capitalist trade to develop productive forces so socialism can compete with the West.

Meanwhile the Chinese state provides a lot of aid to developing nations targeted by the west, like Cuba, Bolivia and several African nations. These do also benefit China by giving them more training partners but it's not purely extractive, their aid also helps them develop their own productive forces so their economies aren't purely based on resource extraction and export and so can they can more resilience against western sanctions. I can't find the video now for the life of me, but there is one out there of some western official trying to talk to an African politician about "Chinese imperialism" and the African guy is just like "when you come here we get lectures, when China comes we get a port".