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Re:GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price by tm-infringement on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:05AM (#43378730)
The BRI is just the Temu version of the IMF with Chinese industry upsell.
Re:GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price by tw04 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:59AM (#43379574)
It is not. The IMF does not demand collateral for the loans that they then hand over to foreign governments. China does.

https://theconversation.com/mombasa-port-how-kenyas-auditor-...

Re:GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price by somenameforme on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:14AM (#43379689)
That article says the exact opposite of what you are claiming. This is the lede paragraph:

"In December 2018, a leaked letter from the Kenyan auditor-general’s office sparked a rumour that Kenya had staked its bustling Mombasa Port as collateral for the Chinese-financed Standard Gauge Railway. Our new research shows why the collateral rumour is wrong."

LLM much?

Re:GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price by Kavelach on Sunday March 16, 2025 @07:48PM (#43383739)
IMF forces countries to adopt austerity politics[1], causing lower economic activity and often leading to economy shrinkage[2], and forces countries to open their markets to foreign capital, which leads to surplus extraction abroad. Both of those measures lead to impoverishing the country that is taking the loan.

[1] https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2021/04/05/imf-austerity-is-alive-and... and https://academic.oup.com/book/11959?login=false

[2] https://accountinginsights.org/austerity-principles-economic...