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    China makes its "partner"s loan slaves, also they say its mandatory to do the build process by chinese too, for very expensive, and low quality. We see this in hungary.

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        @Detectorist huh? The IMF does not specify who you use as labourers etc.

        The IMF doesn’t care what you do so long as you de-fund health and other social services to pay them. How it got its nickname Infant Mortality Fund, more babies die.

        All loans come with strings but they are different strings.

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        China is not Japan or France… lol plus China isn’t known for their build quality

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        Sure…did you see the accident and fatality rates for high speed rails around the world? Because I’m sure China leads that one too.

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      https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/

      Stop repeating the propaganda that is thinly veiled European projection of their own guilt onto its enemies.

      The Atlantic is a deeply imperial publication and even its analysis contradicts the bullshit that China’s loans are predatory.

      The debt slavery is a part of the European project. Every loan the Europeans give is a trap. Hell, even when they give money away for free it’s a trap - for every dollar given to African countries in aid, 24 are extracted through predatory pricing, predatory loans, mandatory contracts, etc.

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      I’ll make sure to get the British or Americans to build it instead.

      How much are HS2 and CAHSR expected to cost, again? How many decades of delays?