Dr. Joanna Siekiera
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So again, the mentality, the mentality is different.
They need something substantial.
They need something material.
And Chinese are very good at that.
We Westerners, we have our values, which are intangible.
But how to sell those values if those countries, they are intangible?
poor they don't deal well with law for them law legal system is something imposed by white people so why would they follow law or legal institutions since they think it is imposed this is detrimental and this is what I also in last chapter myself I wrote it why it's hard for Oceania countries to combat climate change because for them the
They don't have such legal metrics, those measures, how we deal, tackle problems.
A hundred percent.
When I was in Fiji, all staff, you know, hotels, restaurants, they were Chinese.
So they know how to maneuver.
They know how to use racial cards saying that, hey, we are not white.
So we understand you, which, of course, has nothing to do with rational economy and being a good person.
But they strike where it's the most, as I like to say.
They know how to sell things which are not necessarily needed, but they will exactly unwrap it in this post-colonial fight.
But instead, they are giving neocolonialism.
with communism, with state ownership, with lack of freedom, with possible tortures of political opponents, and so on and so forth.
So those poor countries, they don't know Chinese rhetorics, tactics.
And they swallow it.
They think it's just like, you know, it's sweet poison, but it's poison at the end.
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