@sofiav@inquiline I cannot agree with you here. Belt and Road is a transparent attempt to transform its African partners, particularly, into client states dependent on an imperial metropole – a textbook inscription of exploitive and extractive neocolonial relations, reliant on the intercession of an exceedingly narrow comprador class in each polity it touches. If China understood soft power better, and was capable of not being racist, I might even take it seriously.