What will happen if they have blackouts?
Eat salad.
In addition lets not forget the dozens of economic cooperations signed in this trip. Give them 1-3 years to start bearing fruit and internal politics/lobbying-groups will push these countries to cooperate even more with China
The West thinks too short-term of weeks or months. China is playing the multi-year game here, and in this aspect, this 10-day trip has been a massive success
China and Papua New Guinea held talks on a free-trade deal on Friday, as Beijing’s foreign minister wrapped up a landmark tour of the Pacific Islands with a stop in the resource-rich nation.
Marape said he wants to shift the economy away from primary materials to more lucrative finished products.
He has invited more Chinese investment and said work was ongoing on a trade deal. “China and Papua New Guinea officials are going through tidying Chinese-PNG free-trade arrangements,” Marape told journalists.
“The specifics of the free-trade arrangement are being finalised as we go through, so that Papua New Guinea interests are not suppressed or harmed, but maintained and in fact augmented,” he said.
And the world is suppose to model themselves after these people...?