Dawg what? The US strategy is primarily coups, bombings, piracy, working through proxies and fomenting fundamentalist and separatist movements which are, again, exactly what you villify others for. What the hell is China doing in your estimation that even approaches that level? This is just the classic “sure we did (bad thing we are still doing) in the past, but at least we’ve changed unlike (countries your government wants you to hate that are not doing those things)”
You are probably correct that the Trump government is returning to the “good old days”, so I concede that point around their current policies.
The predominant strategy from the US and China has been to leverage corruption in regional governments to obtain control of strategic assest like ports, transport hubs, mineral resouces etc, and then place those assets under the control of a few party adjacent corporations. Thus they extract those resources over local companies in the region. After making sure that the local politcal elite gets their miniscule cut of course.
Economic neocolonialism. Far less shooting and a lot more wealth extraction from a country.
I was referring to the last 35 years. Before then the US strategy was different. Their tactics are different now. China also made the same change.
Dawg what? The US strategy is primarily coups, bombings, piracy, working through proxies and fomenting fundamentalist and separatist movements which are, again, exactly what you villify others for. What the hell is China doing in your estimation that even approaches that level? This is just the classic “sure we did (bad thing we are still doing) in the past, but at least we’ve changed unlike (countries your government wants you to hate that are not doing those things)”
You are probably correct that the Trump government is returning to the “good old days”, so I concede that point around their current policies.
The predominant strategy from the US and China has been to leverage corruption in regional governments to obtain control of strategic assest like ports, transport hubs, mineral resouces etc, and then place those assets under the control of a few party adjacent corporations. Thus they extract those resources over local companies in the region. After making sure that the local politcal elite gets their miniscule cut of course.
Economic neocolonialism. Far less shooting and a lot more wealth extraction from a country.
You’re projecting US strategy onto China. The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
Yes the debt trap is a myth. The rest of it is true.