There’s always a price, but that’s true whether the donation comes from China, the US, or most other world powers.
My family is from the Caribbean. They seem to feel that it’s better to work with China or India on infrastructure, as they help with building and get paid back via ownership or land leases. Working with the US is difficult, as it’s hard for a nation with little access to USD to be able pay back a loan - they basically get blamed for being poor despite the US having performed the ultimate grift in making their dollar the global currency.
Working with the US has made even more difficult by the fact that the US seems determined to keep them under embargo, even though it’s seriously questionable whether the embargo serves any useful purpose anymore. So even if they wanted to work with the US it would probably involve a bunch of useless ass kissing and we probably make the oil refineries back.
Bottom line it’s an awful lot of harm for not very much. Should have been ended decades ago
There’s always a price, but that’s true whether the donation comes from China, the US, or most other world powers.
My family is from the Caribbean. They seem to feel that it’s better to work with China or India on infrastructure, as they help with building and get paid back via ownership or land leases. Working with the US is difficult, as it’s hard for a nation with little access to USD to be able pay back a loan - they basically get blamed for being poor despite the US having performed the ultimate grift in making their dollar the global currency.
Working with the US has made even more difficult by the fact that the US seems determined to keep them under embargo, even though it’s seriously questionable whether the embargo serves any useful purpose anymore. So even if they wanted to work with the US it would probably involve a bunch of useless ass kissing and we probably make the oil refineries back.
Bottom line it’s an awful lot of harm for not very much. Should have been ended decades ago