China’s share of global GDP has increased from 3.6% in 2000 to 17.8% in 2019 and will continue to grow, the CEBR said. It would pass the per capita threshold of $12,536 (£9,215) to become a high-income country by 2023.

absolutely insane

    • weshallovercum [any]
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      4 years ago

      Alright, can you explain what China is doing in those countries that makes it imperialism? And can you also define imperialism?

    • JorgeWBush [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Speaking as a nigerian person,the situation with Afrika is more nuanced than that.

      Countries are seeing more real development in a few decades than they had in an epoch of european occupation.

      Speaking to people on the ground about china, the primary complaint people had was that when building rail they use their own engineers, while the locals are largely relegated to the menial labor.

      It doesn't exactly fill me with joy to see the petrostate taking on more foreign debt for development, but at the very least this way we are a lot more likely to avoid additional "structural readjustment".

      Nigeria in particular seems like an odd hill to die on for "chinese imperialism" given that the country's northern region are currently occupied by US special forces.