If you think Chinese investment into African countries is anything like the colonialism and neocolonialism of Western nations, you have no idea what you’re talking about
Demystifying Chinese Overseas Lending and Development Finance. - BU
Meanwhile, every accusation is a confession
Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have been accused of predatory lending practices to keep emerging economies in debt, including: demanding structural adjustment programmes as a condition for loans, often to governments who see these loans as a last resort,[63][64][65] pressuring for privatization and exerting undue influence over central banks.[66][67][68][69] The founder of the activist network Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt wrote: “The World Bank and the IMF have systematically made loans to states as a means of influencing their policies.”[70] [better source needed] The IMF has used geopolitical considerations, rather than exclusively economic conditions, to decide which countries received loans.[71]
I literally just gave 2 articles and a wiki that show the complete opposite.
Chinese investment has already been magnitudes better than African nations than Western neo/colonialism has been. Equating the two is insane