It also requires something that western capitalism doesn't really structure itself around: an actual moral compass that isn't just shadow imperialism which is w

It also requires something that western capitalism doesn't really structure itself around: an actual moral compass that isn't just shadow imperialism which is what "confessions of an economic hitman" involves. You'd want to genuinely want improvement for the people. Not for enriching a new set of brutal and corrupt elites that will do the bidding of the CIA/IMF/whatever, but actually want the people's lives improved in living standards, education, economic independence, etc. Kind of like how China fast-forwarded themselves. In rose tinted glasses, I can see the Belt and Road kinda being like that, but of course it left out the development of manufacturing / stealing of technology that really underpinned China's rise.