from 0x815@feddit.org to world@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 06:17
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cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2956996
At a less well-reported meeting in Beijing late last year, organised by the China-Africa Business Council, officials pushed for the rapid expansion of Chinese private security firms [in countries of the Global South]. ‘Outbound Chinese investors face security challenges and a complex environment,’ said an official statement.
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Officials are concerned about the fate of programmes under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which started as a global infrastructure programme, but has evolved into an umbrella for just about everything China does overseas to further its influence. Projects have stalled or collapsed under a mountain of unsustainable debt and growing resentment at the outsize role of Chinese firms and labour. In Pakistan, for instance, Gwadar Port, built by China as key part of a $62 billion (£47 billion) China-Pakistan economic corridor has been under virtual siege by Baloch separatists, who have targeted Chinese engineers. Chinese-owned mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo have also been targeted.
A BRI working group recently highlighted the need to ‘hammer out the safety protection in a detailed way,’ according to the state-owned Xinhua news agency.
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China now has overseas economic investments and assets worth well over a trillion dollars by most estimates. It has set up around 47,000 overseas firms across 190 countries or regions, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
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Beijing now seems to have concluded that they are dangerously exposed, particularly at a time of growing economic stress and geopolitical tensions and require a local security apparatus to match.
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The Solomon Islands provide a template for China. Last year, they signed a deal on police cooperation with Beijing as part of an upgrade of their relations to a ‘comprehensive strategic partnership’. The Chinese telecoms company Huawei is building a cellular network on the Islands, and a Chinese state company plans to redevelop the port in the capital, Honiara.
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China had less success with Thailand, where the government scrapped plans for joint patrols with Chinese police in popular tourist spots following criticism that it compromised Thai national sovereignty, and a rebuke from the country’s police chief. There was also anger on social media. ‘Thailand will become a complete surveillance state’, was one typical response, though among other autocrats more welcoming of Chinese, that seems to be precisely the point.
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I think that the MBFC database should probably have some special case for the Internet Archive. Either parse the archived domain out of Wayback Machine links and use the MBFC assessment for the domain or just don’t have a rating.
Any aggregate rating of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is going to basically be useless, because it shows archives of sites spanning the spectrum on politics and factuality.
The whole damn bot is useless spam for Ground News, which sells paid subscriptions. I’m still not convinced they aren’t paying off the admins.
The source for the bot’s info is Media Bias Fact Check, which is separate from Ground News. The admins added the Ground News link because users wanted additional sources and mentioned that one I believe.
I think the bigger question is why it bothered with Internet Archive, since that wasn’t mentioned in the original post, or did I miss something?
There is an archive link in the description and apparently it chooses that over the main one
It did both the original link and archive.org
Ah, that makes sense. Didn’t see it because it was a crosspost and my client (Voyager) left that out of the description.