I agree with this. Their interests is regional geopolitics, which currently means unfettered control over the south china sea, but by extension, everything surrounding this side of India to past Japan.

However, once that dries up, it'll just be 'finance based colonialism' (my term). Pakistan has already fallen, for instance.

I don't know about you, but I'm not eager to alter my priors based on a single, context-free quotation from bulgarianmilitary.com.

The site had multiple scoops so far, and never failed me until now. I agree on a first landing can look suspicions but, until proof of the contrary, and did not happen yet, I consider it somewhat reliable.