Interesting. I don't reject development or modernization (which is left somewhat undefined). It's all about the "how".
There generally is a different form of investment by Imperialist Russia and China. Chinese investments tend to be investments in real physical development (railroads, roads, mines, housing, schools, etc)...the way Imperialist/capitalist investment was seen up through and past the end of WWII. IMF/World promoted speculative and cash-flow investments (think investments in agriculture purely for the goal of export to receive cash to pay off the same loans and other debt resources). So, one can find the Chinese investing in public health infrastructure of wider investment. Likely no one will find Western Imperialism even seeing this as an "investment" since the strings attached to those loans require cut-backs in public spending, like in healthcare. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30743): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30743 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106638208/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
