Yeah, whatever green energy shit they did was just PR. Basically telling governments they were working on pivoting away from fossil fuels, so no reason to regulate them or anything.

Hasn’t that always been the stated policy of both the US and Taiwan itself? Pretty sure TSMC has a kill switch built in.

Stablecoins excluded, obviously.

There is ample evidence that China uses ‘‘debt trap diplomacy’’ to exploit Africa’s natural resources, dominate infrastructure projects and acquire locations for its military bases, among other things.

Is there any difference to how the IMF and World Bank provide loans and trap countries into debt and force them into economic reforms that are bad for the country? Seems like China is just learning from the best.