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Which country has ever benefited from China's BRI?
Addition: Just an hour or so ago I posted, "As Chinese-owned businesses grow across Africa, so does local backlash". Would really love to hear what countries you have in mind that benefited from China's BRI.
You're clearly not here for good faith discussions. If all you want is to be a Washington bot, leave me alone with the disinformation campaigns. I won't fall for them.
I have already provided you an entire project that benefits the world at large.
Do you really want to doubt that infrastructure benefits countries?
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If you named a country and we looked at the numbers and realities. 'At large' is meaningless here as much as you link to Wikipedia. If it's so clear that the BRI is beneficial for the world, you could easily name an example or two, but you can't as there is not a single country in Africa, Asia, or anywhere else that has ever benefited from China's BRI. The one who is arguing in bad faith here is you.
Don't bother with them. RedPandaRaider called me a nazi for saying "fuck Stalinists" and claimed to have blocked me. Also their post history shows they are a shill for China and calls everyone who isn't pro China a bot or a CIA agent.
That is such a bullshit claim.
I'm not going through the work to entertain a bot and your fellow bot accounts.
If you're so sure no country benefits from new infrastructure then you go ahead and prove such an outrageous theory. The burden of proof lies on the claimant.
Just took a look at your profile and yeah it's clear enough you're a Washington bot driving an anti-China agenda.
There is no country that ever benefited from China's BRI. All countries' populations who were part of this system paid a high price. Your claim comes out of nothing.
Insults as the last refuge of someone with no tangible arguments?
You yourself said literally that the BRI "includes a long list of countries that have reliable trade and diplomacy with China."
This is wrong. You can't name a country, bro. You are just parroting propaganda and disinformation.