As part of making the case for our model, we must continue to make the case as to why China is an untrustworthy partner in any endeavor, whether it's a nation state project, an industrial capacity, or financial integration. They have a neocolonial project, The Belt and Road Initiative, which follows a very consistent playbook approach. Nations with promises of lucrative state projects exploit corruption, bleed those nations dry, and then hijack their domestic infrastructure. In Sri Lanka, what it meant was the de facto takeover of wide swaths of their political system after a project sputtered and Beijing seized the port. (12:36–12:50)
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Asserts that China's Belt and Road Initiative exploits nations and hijacks infrastructure.
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