It depends on the country. This is not necessarily my expertise, but we see, obviously, that they are using their economic weight or the promise of economic investments, infrastructure and so on to try, let's say, to co-opt certain governments. We see them being particularly effective in countries where that same government might have authoritarian streaks or be very eager to remain in power. We see them corrupting governments, very often in countries that are not exactly democratic or not stably democratic, and it's all toward the same aim. Especially over the past years, Xi Jinping has launched a couple of so-called global initiatives. We see them very heavily investing in the so-called global south and trying in a way to align that global south with its interests, with its new design for the future world order, which is radically different and alternative to the international rules-based order based on fundamental human rights, as we understand them.
On March 20th, 2023. See this statement in context.