China has pursued one and the same policy around the world to promote the expansion of its interests and the transformation of various countries into colonies or neo-colonies of Beijing: providing funds to the ones it has targeted for influence to transform them into debtors to China.
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China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend attend a meeting with members of the Business Council and management of the New Development Bank during the BRICS Summit in Brasilia, Nov. 14, 2019.