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>Let me spell it out: Chinese companies are extensions of the state. They are tools of Chinese foreign and trade policy. What cooperation you think US companies provide the US government, it is nothing in comparison.

I'm not so sure. It just goes through a few more mediators and more roundabout ways.

In the end, the fruit companies that turned Latin American countries into banana repubics, for one example, had big support from the state and vice versa. Ditto for oil, telecommunications, social, and so on.



Glad that you mentioned banana republics. The writing is on the wall...




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