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China has every right to provide construction and loans to other countries. Pulling third world countries into the modern world through expensive infrastructure
by ramblerman 8y ago
China has every right to provide construction and loans to other countries. Pulling third world countries into the modern world through expensive infrastructure is not the worst thing even if it enriches the Chinese. In fact this kind of economic colonialism has one big benefit, being economic in nature it prefers peace.
The US could learn a thing or two about this flavor of nation building
- OldManAndTheCpp 8y agoThe US did acknowledge this: the Marshall Plan was clearly an effort by the US to dually resore the homeland of many Americans and to bind the broken or beaten powers closely to the US. The term “Greatest Generation” is a bit passé, but the USA immediately after WWII was legitimately great.
- FabHK 8y agoYes. Being German, I'm as critical of the current US policy and government as anyone - but I am incredibly grateful to and mindful of the Marshall plan and what it did for Germany and Europe.