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    23 days ago

    and also buying other countries infrastructure (ports, sewers, etc) and supplying backdoored communication infrastructure

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      23 days ago

      developing the global south is a win in my book, but backdoors are obviously bad, though it seems less of a downside than what the west provides

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        23 days ago

        they aren’t just doing that in the global south tho. they do it in EU too, for example

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          23 days ago

          What am I meant to say? They shouldn’t have bought Chinese or privatised their infrastructure if it was that big of a deal

          Besides, the only solution is local alternatives, USA does the same as China

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            What am I meant to say?

            you’re not meant to say anything specific. this is how freedom works.

            They shouldn’t have bought Chinese or privatised their infrastructure if it was that big of a deal

            you’re right, they shouldn’t have, but corruption is unfortunately a thing and now what you wrote feels a bit like victim blaming 😄

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              The victim is the government and they usually have a board to talk things through, it would be different if it was an individual decision