Post #3092820

2026-05-03 02:36 UTC

And with that, China essentially hold Africa hostage and would blackmail them to do whatever China wanted. But of course, they do it without bloodshed so tHeY aRE bETteR tHAn tHe wESt

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@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2026-05-03 06:28

"Better" can be interpreted in more than one way. They're better at exerting control without violently changing regimes. They're better at establishing their own infrastructure and ingratiating themselves to the locals (or local governments). Now, I don't know that everyone loves them there (I heard many side comments from locals about China) but it's not like they're scrambling for the Americans, British, or French to come back and overtly oppress them again.

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@NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2026-05-03 03:41

I mean literally yes.

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@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 03:49

I know the lives of non-Westerners don't matter to you but a lack of bloodshed kinda makes a world of difference, lol.

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@BananaLama@lemmy.ml 2026-05-03 18:25

Wait so is achieving the same result with bloodshed preferable?

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@platform9469@lemmy.ml 2026-05-03 09:18

As opposed to the 500 years of rape and pillaging by the European powers? Yes, unironically better. (Unless you're a western chauvinist )

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@Tolc@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 18:54

You are saying China is equally bad as west when it comes to exploitation of global south and imperialism?

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@reddit_sux@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 06:40

China is just like the west.

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@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-03 19:11

So anti-imperialism. Much proletariat.

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