Burkina Faso says no to Bill Gates’ plan of creating modified species of mosquitoes

[u/lurker_bee]

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/burkina-faso-says-no-to-bill-gates-plan-of-creating-modified-species-of-mosquitoes/xyk7xm8

[u/Dic3dCarrots]

Its the paradoxical enemy trope, belt and road is both a tragic economic blunder of the sad poor planned economy, and a hegemonic debt trap that the Chinese will use to steal what they will. Turns out theyre more 1950s American than anything else where they will work with any friendly regional power to develop their economic gosls even if that juices otherwise unsavvory political organizations. As long as the illicit activity doesnt happen on Chinese soil, they'll make any friendly want to be industrialist very wealthy, they just have to be willing to take direction from the ccp on global affairs and keep the local situation friendly, no matter how. China benefits from modernizing Brasils ports as much as Brasil does, the only loser is the US.

[u/AccomplishedFail2247 → u/Dic3dCarrots]

But then China owns the fucking ports, thats the problem. And 99% if all the serious news coverage is about the hegemonic debt trap side of the operation, no one’s talking about it in a negative sense. China owning most of Africa and South Americas critical infrastructure is not a good thing

[u/el_muchacho → u/AccomplishedFail2247]

Once again, the debt trap is a lie. And no, China doesn't own "most Africa and SA's critical infrastructure".

[u/Dic3dCarrots → u/AccomplishedFail2247]

Lol hegemonic debt trap as if rogue states care about law suits. These include nations with with active human rights violations, CCP having an "ownership stake" means a lot less in the countries they're building ports in. and the ports that matter today are what they are funding in Brasil. Also, again, compare that to anything offered by the west, maybe WE dont like it, but some of these countries have no other options than China, and China has already forgiven some of the loans, but like everything, these are complex issues with people involved. There are 155 countries with BRI projects in them. I think ypu could find plenty examples of fraud waste and abuse in any human system. Some possible third of the countries have more debt due to chinese loans than they would from what analysts predict they would from Paris Club countries, but there might be other benefits for former colonized countries to take assistance from China instead of the West.

[u/el_muchacho → u/Dic3dCarrots]

This post is so replete with falsehoods I don't even know where to start. I guess $1.6 billion of anti China propaganda has a toll on minds.

1) Claim: "belt and road is a tragic economic blunder of the sad poor planned economy"

Truth: BRI is a widely successful policy, that made China the first trade partner of more than 120 countries. There are 195 countries (including Palestine and Vatican). It's in fact so successful that the US tried to copy it, but it predictably fell flat.

2) Claim: ... and a hegemonic debt trap

Truth: there is simply NO chinese debt trap diplomacy. That's just another lie that has been debunked for years.

3) ... that the Chinese will use to steal what they will

Americans used to say that about their black slaves. And colonizers used this slur all the time.

4) Claim: Turns out theyre more 1950s American than anything else where they will work with any friendly regional power to develop their economic gosls even if that juices otherwise unsavvory political organizations.

Truth: Even on US history, you are wrong, that's not how the 1950s USA operated. The US would use the CIA to depose local leaders (sometimes democratically elected), like in Guatemala in 1954, to impose a pro- american business puppet. China does no such thing, quite the opposite, it doesn't set political conditions, it works with the government in place without interfering in interior politics as a principle. You may disagree with this principle, but the western policy which imposes their conditions is hardly ever better,

[u/Dic3dCarrots → u/el_muchacho]

Your reading comprehension sucks. You're not disagreeing with my comment. My comment was that those false statements propogated in the west to hand wave away BRI are paradoxical. My point about 1950s america is that we built in countries friendly to our interests and used dollar deplomacy to fund unsavvory regimes, just like China is.

Do better ai

[u/el_muchacho → u/Dic3dCarrots]

Do better ai

Cool, now you are insulting me. I didn't use AI. You realize how much time I spent to write this post ? No you don't. Reddit is an international website, perhaps you could figure out that not everyone's mother tongue is english. And your post is badly written as if that was your point, it doesn't come across clearly.

[u/Dic3dCarrots → u/el_muchacho]

What ever ai translator you used tragically failed you -.-

Maybe next time, dont skip the first phrase of a post when responding. Pro tip, when reading English, the first phrase is generally important :)