Wood Mackenzie says Chinese companies installed 24 GW of power projects throughout the world under China's "Belt and Road" development initiative in 2024. This marked a record for a calendar year, with solar projects accounting for about one-third of the newly installed capacity.
China investing in poorer surrounding countries is essentially China’s equivalent of the EU
Please read up on what the EU actually is. That statement is about as smart as calling China a US state, because US companies invested a lot in China.
No, not at all. Pure geopolitcs. In this case a double win, where china ties these countries closer to itself through investment and in some cases can electricity produced fairly close, but west of China benefit china directly after sundown.
This is how the long game is played.