As I see it | Outside its few red lines, China is the ultimate win-win country
While China has red lines regarding Taiwan, Communist Party rule and national unity, everything else is negotiable
If you need aid, that’s fine; it won’t tell you what to do with the money or otherwise dictate your finances, so long as it sees some returns, whether commercial, strategic or diplomatic. It is not doing it out of the goodness of its heart, but it always appreciates a win-win. The Global South understands that. The West, which loves to interfere and dictate, doesn’t.
China doesn’t interfere with your elections, overthrow or stage coups against your government, kidnap your political leaders and their spouses or sanction your country to the point of impoverishing and starving the population.
It doesn’t operate hundreds of military bases around the world that turn your country into a staging ground for the next world war. It’s not invading other countries. It doesn’t demand loyalty or force you to pick a side so long as you keep your end of the bargain. China builds; it doesn’t bomb.