Yeah, but if Xi actually wanted to elevate the global south working class he would just push the communism button. All of this physical work, negotiation, and compromise to give workers the industrial infrastructure that would actually allow them to assert themselves is just a ploy to do something vaguely sinister.
Annoying that this article uses a stupid “AI” generated header image. Have so many people completely forgotten that you can just find an image online and ask permission to use it? Or find a permissively licensed photo? There are tons of photos and videos of BRI projects. Just use one of those instead of a nonsensical uncanny valley thing you generated. I can’t believe how dumb everyone is now. It’s offensive to me that people value authenticity and showing real people that they’d rather just generate up a fake picture of an African guy and Chinese guy. At least have the honesty to put the prompt you used to generate the image in the caption, and cite the software used.
Sorry, but isn’t this the behaviour the article is calling out? Teaching people the truth about the ‘Chinese debt trap’ is a useful thing to do. We shouldn’t be purity testing the image they use. They might have chosen to use AI because it is better at communicating the basic idea, or simply because they don’t think digging through archives is the best use of their time.
I think complaining about the AI image is a separate thing. Using it doesn’t detract from the argument, but it is annoying to see. The article post only stands to gain from going the “extra mile” (the previous standard mile) of finding an appropriate picture to demonstrate what they’re talking about.
“Chineese peeoplee aree the futuree comradee, cheeck out all theese eextra fingeers.”
~Ancient AI Chatbot Proverb
There are 7
rs in 草莓.
But tankies!
No, tank you!
Why they gotta use an AI picture?
I read the website as “moron line”. Which is upsetting how boomer my brain is about this
Finally, a news aggregate website for the common moron, it’s about damn time!
I always read it as Mister Online, aka Mr. Online, even though I know it’s Marxist Review Online LOL.
This lines up with what I heard from the locals across the Caribbean Islands I visited. One thing I was surprised to hear relating to the Chinese capitalist and state presence there was the discussion among some concrete workers gripping about the possible plan for their government to buy out the lease for some new highway one of the Chinese companies built and was going to own and maintain for a set amount of years and then crank up the toll costs
