• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      this is a measure attractive to totalitarian regimes, it won’t be so easily supported by or implemented in Brazil, India, and South Africa.

      And the countries you mentioned are smaller than China economically, and their political stories in the past and present are not good either.

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        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.