Please do not use this map projection. It is unambiguously trash. It distord shapes way to much. There are much better equal area projections, like Eckert IV or mollweide

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Debt colonialism doesn't equate to the kind of cross bonding and trust that leads to actual solid alliances.

China's naked imperial ambition gets in the way of it ever actually establishing meaningful, trust-based ties with other nations.

These countries take advantage of infrastructure loans, but the reality of what China is actually doing (screwing these countries with debt they can't pay then taking back the infrastructure in order to establish a foothold globally) is sinking in with these countries.

Belt and Road is simply a way of using debt to sieze land that China can't take through brute force. Has absolutely nothing to do with "western chauvinism", the CCP is toxic to geopolitical progress, especially if you are actually concerned with helping developing countries grow into independent, stable and self-sufficiency.

Belt and Road is just debt colonialism. They're screwing the countries that they push their debt into. No, the CCP is bad for the world and for China and are the reason they are isolated geopolitically.