You don’t need a totalitarian regime, you only need corrupt politicians. And China is notorious for giving “incentives” to politicians, to get mega projects done by Chinese contractors.
In our country, our corrupt politicians have welcomed many Chinese projects, one of which is the High Speed Rail project that we don’t really need. And somehow our government started using DPI to restrict internet access to blacklisted websites including reddit.
that might work to make some infrastructure projects happen in countries with economical power much smaller than China’s, but it won’t be enough to buy a majority of politicians of those larger economies, especially not to impose unpopular restrictions on free speech.
it’s not about being “smaller than”, this is not agar.io. They are ideologically very different than China and Russia. That’s like saying China can buy out English politicians to do whatever they want because they have a larger GDP.
this is a measure attractive to totalitarian regimes, it won’t be so easily supported by or implemented in Brazil, India, and South Africa.
You don’t need a totalitarian regime, you only need corrupt politicians. And China is notorious for giving “incentives” to politicians, to get mega projects done by Chinese contractors.
In our country, our corrupt politicians have welcomed many Chinese projects, one of which is the High Speed Rail project that we don’t really need. And somehow our government started using DPI to restrict internet access to blacklisted websites including reddit.
that might work to make some infrastructure projects happen in countries with economical power much smaller than China’s, but it won’t be enough to buy a majority of politicians of those larger economies, especially not to impose unpopular restrictions on free speech.
And the countries you mentioned are smaller than China economically, and their political stories in the past and present are not good either.
it’s not about being “smaller than”, this is not agar.io. They are ideologically very different than China and Russia. That’s like saying China can buy out English politicians to do whatever they want because they have a larger GDP.