While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?
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
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