I saw this in various places in southern Africa. In Inhambane in Mozambique the only supermarket was Chinese. The locals would sit around with their sheet and their produce on top waiting for people to buy their stuff, but the supermarket was way more convenient.
Wow...it kind of sounds like what happens in the American Hood... except those stores are owned by Koreans.
Essentially since 2010 the GDP per capita has remained the same. Doesn't seem like China's influence is having much impact there.
Their inability to improve their own country is China's fault?
Yes, there were bad decisions made in Montenegro. But Montenegro went to the west first, and the west said "this isn't good for your country". China will do things that benefit China, and only China. China, had they bothered, would have seen it could never really benefit Montenegro.
Seems like it didn't really benefit China that much. Montenegro owes them a shitload of money that will probalby never be paid back.
This mostly seems like a European problem. The Balkans are the poorest part of Europe, but Europe never steps up to the plate to improve it.
Mao oversaw the biggest loss of life of any leader of China during his reign. There are only estimates of how many millions died, 30 million? 40 million? Certainly a lot.
Yes, he did. But political turmoil in China ALWAYS has a huge loss of life due to the population density. 22 million people died during the Second Sino-Japanese War (which eventually merged into World War II.) 20-30 million people died during the Taiping Rebellion (where some nutjob thought he was the Brother of Jesus and tried to establish his own kingdom). 25 million people died during the fall of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (At a time when the population of China was 200 million).
He also did nothing for the economy. His problem was he was a bit like Trump. He was more interested in himself than he was in improving the country. He latched onto the Communist movement, but wasn't Communist himself, just power hungry and he could never get power through the old system.
See, this is where you are being dishonest. Mao took a country that had been devasted by decades of foreign invasion and civil war and made it one of the worlds largest economies. Compared to Trump, who had lackluster GDP Growth before he crashed the economy with Covid.
Sure, there were mistakes, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.