"Heh, nice try President of South Africa, but I think I know a little something about African-Chinese diplomacy from all the feddit articles whose headline and preview paragraph I've read."

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

South Africa: "this is not a debt trap"

China: "this is not a debt trap"

The most smug person you've ever heard: "mmm, isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Are the terms of the loans secret or something? With western debt traps we can point to the austerity measures and such... are they even accusing China of anything specific?

[–] TraitorToAmerica@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

honestly hexbear should rename it as "button into the hitler dimension" as a bit on april fools or something lol