it's about soft power and economic leverage

I know most people would side with a free nation of an authoritarian one

thats not at all like that lol

So how would that take US' place?

@sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ it's very unlikely but the administration still could've passed it without Obama knowing

these countries like ethiopia, Iran, Pakistan, etc which have very strategic value in Geopolitics, find it much more valueable to side with a country that invests in their economy than to side with a country that has a recent history of invading whoever doesnt side with them

If you tell me that he did it it will be the same as if you send someone to death sentence without enough evidence

Chinese banks loan money to these poor countries to invest in infrastructure » these countries use these loans to pay chinese companies to build infrastructure in said country » these countries then cant pay back the loan so they sell the newly built infrastructure to another chinese company. all the while the chinese government owning or partially owning the said companies

and what happens is that a lot of countries end up selling out core industries to the country's sovereignty to a chinese firms, and effectively become puppets of the chinese state

and internationally, whenever a crisis shows up they will side with china, otherwise their electricity is cut/ their trains stop working/ their ports are closed

"it's very unlikely but the administration still could've passed it without Obama knowing"

they would have to let Obama know

Obama runs the whole thing

That doesn't mean it would replace US @Similar Scowl

in any way

it would replace the US in terms of global influence

and they are already surpassing the US in economic terms

although trump has made the US economy grow faster

They can still pass it without him knowing, I can also lend something from you without asking your permission

it's not clear that this is a trend or just an isolated event

"and they are already surpassing the US in economic terms" Barely

Chinese GDP PPP per capita is around 14k

or less

for now

compare that to US with 60k

Just for noz:

it's been like that for ages

Now*

you have to look at it from a larger historical lens

The Chinese will become the 1st world's econimic power by 2060.

You might be right in terms of influence in countries that are underdeveloped

however not all of it

where was china 30 years ago compared to the US?

and where are they now?

^

lets take a look

you mean in the 80s

?

all projections point to china surpassing the US

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-us-vs-china-economy/

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-world-s-top-economy-the-us-vs-china-in-five-charts/ this one has nice charts