I am frankly surprised though by the Chinese government promoting the sort of imperialist "foreign aid investments" which the US and Soviet Union specialized in in the 1950s in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. -- It's just so retro and startling, like seeing a group of 1950s automobile drive past. I guess if it worked 70 years ago it will work again because China is working with the grandchildren of those who got trapped in these foreign aid schemes back then. But the people in these countries will end up resenting China and China will inherit the whirlwind like those before them did. Nobody learns and everything is new again, just like periodic bubbles and crashes.