chapotraphouse

Learn to read. What I said was that if you are so concerned with debt-trapping, then the U.S. is a far larger culprit with much larger abilities to do so. If anything, the belt and road alleviates U.S. attempts to debt-trap China.

lol you have the depth of a toy that says a thought-terminating cliché every time its string is pulled

The concept of “brainwashing” was invented — by a CIA agent posing as a journalist — precisely because Westerners needed a way to reflexively dismiss the phenomenon whereby their own troops were being persuaded of communist ideas during communist captivity:

The idea of “brain-washing” can be credited to Edward Hunter, a CIA-funded writer and editor, who in 1950 started writing articles and books on the subject. His thesis was that Red China and the Soviet Union could control the minds of their respective citizenry — which explained how susceptible Americans captured on foreign soil would be.

from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

All government spending that's backed by USD is effectively a debt trap that leads back to the US. You could join the Hexbear Super-Imperialism reading group to learn more, because you live in a free country that allows people to write and publish that kind of text (nobody tell them where the edition we're reading was published)