Whitehatdvl
Whitehatdvl t1_j2nzgd7 wrote
Reply to comment by Lostmyfnusername in An analysis of data from 30 survey projects spanning 137 countries found that 75% of people in liberal democracies hold a negative view of China, and 87% hold a negative view of Russia. However, for the rest of the world, 70% feel positively towards China, and 66% feel positively towards Russia. by glawgii
The bank shouldn't be giving you a loan if they don't think you can pay it off, most governments have protections in place to prevent predatory practices like that. The people China is making loans to probably don't have protections like that and also probably don't have people educated enough to look at these offers and realize that they are predatory, they just really want to have the infrastructure.
Whitehatdvl t1_j6g42su wrote
Reply to comment by ZevVeli in ELI5: How do they come up with names for countries in foreign languages? by bentobam
What's weird to me is if you read stuff from the WWII era and before, it was common for people to refer to Japan as Nippon, and they called Japanese people Nipponese (if they weren't using a pejorative). It's kinda crazy that everybody says Japan now in English instead of Nippon, which is what the Japanese say.