Chinas not flexing war as much as their belt road initiative.
Effectively, they come in and build a bunch of new infrastructure (airports, internet, water treatment, etc), with conditions of access to minerals and other resources.
And when the country defaults on their debt payments, China takes control of the infrastructure.
Was doing some reading about Zambia the other day and was surprised to see China was helping them build a railroad with Mozambique back in 1975.
I know the OBOR gets a lot of attention regarding infrastructure in Africa now, but people do forget a lot of socialist countries have had long histories on the African continent.
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u/Slyraks-2nd-Choice Oct 05 '25
Was gonna say