Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Kidnappings and ghost towns on China’s Belt and Road: 10 years of Xi Jinping’s masterplan | Dispatch" video.

  1. ​Camps the host nation wants there, even if as a convenient scapegoat to divert domestic grievances toward. Those governments who made US forces leave (Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines) inevitably regret it.
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  2. Sadly Tibet is even harder to reach, not only because of lack of access from a land border but also China's even more restrictive permits to foreigners (Xīnjiāng at least they try to tout as a success story hence the permission to enter).
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  3. All foreign reporters are considered fishy to the Chinese government.
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  4. BRI recipients are usually corrupt, and the leaders benefit at the expense of its people when they skim off the loans and budgets. This is why there's often a dissonance between the grateful words of the politicians that get put on the news, versus the less warm sentiments of the actual people on the street.
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  5. Uyghurs seemed to get a raw deal from China ever since they teamed up with the Hàn to genocide the Mongolian Dzungars who previously inhabited what is now Xīnjiāng back in the 1700s.
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