Board Thread:Political Discussion/@comment-45820401-20200610191325/@comment-45820401-20200612210700

China uses its immense economic power to get other countries hooked on handouts. Chinese aid and investment has secured an unhealthy hold over nations across Africa, enabling it to harvest their mineral resources and exploit their workforces. Its grip on $1.261 trillion of American debt looms over the US economy. Now colonization by stealth has reached the Europe, as China grabs Portuguese power companies, Greek ports and whatever other bargains appear in the euro-crisis fire sale.

China is a direct threat to European and US hopes of spreading democratic values. Beyond its repression of domestic dissidence, China has been a consistent barrier to UN efforts to curtail despotism from Myanmar to Sudan and Syria. Beijing’s Africa policy runs counter to EU attempts to link development to human rights. China protects and funds corrupt, authoritarian and oppressive countries, such as North Korea, Venezuela and others.