Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The Truth About China in Africa" video.

  1. This explains the why of the Belt and Road Initiative. It fails the "how it is implimented" theme. Because many Chinese contruction companies are involved in this initiative (to build infrastructure projects in African countries for example), they have strong incentive to hold onto the maximum funds (distributed from the CCP) that benefit all it's employees. All of them, including Chinese building labourers, who are sent to Africa to work on the project. This means that local labour, that could be employed on these building projects mostly misses out. To the corrupt authoritarian governments and individuals of these African countries who have accepted the large bribes of the Chinese contruction company; this is little concern of them, since political opposition often is literally off fighting the government in the bush and the corrupt elites accepting the bribes feel fairly invulnerable. However, the Chinese construction firms will come between these two local forces, as the opposition views Chinese investment to be strengthening the government without any benefit to them, so that the Chinese senior contruction workers and engineers themselves become targets for snipers and kidnapping for example. So this boomerangs back to the CCP who hushes all these incidents up to look smooth. Great isn't it? A great white elephant project is built by the CCP in Africa, the local ruling elite get paid off, and the opposition in the bush gains recruits and arms (assume the latter paying for the arms from drug running for example. Don't laugh, growing and pushing opium was a way the CCP paid for arms in the 1930s) and no-one gets anything in the local economy, except for the corrupt elites, and eventually a long and bloody civil war is waged which probably destroys the Chinese built project anyway.
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