It's telling breh that a lot of your framing is based on the behavior of western nations. Why is the perception that China is not as ruthlessly greedy so popular ? I see that sentiment a lot in this discussion. Not saying being sick of the west isn't valid, but in effort of removing dependency on the west and their influence, it seems that your flank towards the Chinese is relaxed.i'm not confusing anything. it's illogical. China does not need to teach it's people to hate us when they already do...
yes they went to Africa to make money, you don't say. gain an edge over the west, you don't say
it's on us to secure better terms in negotiation and to be clear we needed them as well. put the pride to the side and be realistic. it has gotten us out of dependence on the west and we already had long term debt slavery to the world bank imf etc for DECADES... MINUS the development. nobody missed that play... your bank loans also have interest. where we disagree is the idea that they will have some type of control over these nations. nobody says that about America with it's China debt. most of those ideals are direct propaganda from the same western nations who actually did that. the irony.
in reality Africa has to do business with other nations and we have to have better leadership to AVOID bad faith contracts. Nikkaz cannot continue to blame other people for looking at us like a snack if we won't secure our positions. Better leadership and representation to garner us more favorable terms. that's on us. your lender will give you the highest interest loan they can if you let them that's not racism.
Also, I disagree it's illogical. If a country has a long term goal of eventually gaining more and more influence and territory, it's not inconceivable to believe that you need good PR publically but also need a population primed to accept possible hostile actions in the future. Seems like good long term strategy to me until you feel fully secure in your position. When Hitler came into power, he didn't immediately invade Poland. He didn't immediately attack the soviet union and they didn't immediately start killing jews. In fact, whenever other countries expressed concerns about possible aggresive military action by Germany due to their rapid militarization under Hitler, they denied they had any plans of starting a war... Until they did.
There is a reason every surrounding country in Asia hates China if they are not being supported by them. The Philippines, Myanmar (post coup), and North korea do though since they are heavily backed by China.