China being China will almost certainly come back to haunt them without significant political reform (within China itself). It's great that someone is building

China being China will almost certainly come back to haunt them without significant political reform (within China itself). It's great that someone is building infrastructure in these countries, but the cost is a totalitarian state with a few freedoms, enslaved by debt to their new colonial masters. This can easily be exploited by the West, similar to how the Soviet Union used US hegemony to start (and win) numerous cold war conflicts. China may never see any returns on that infrastructure when these countries inevitably switch sides in the new cold war.