The Belt and Road Initiative is a scary neo-domination tactic that China is employing right now. This is a money trap for the poor countries (including mine) that promises prosperity but when in fact it is a ruse to take a piece of a nation's land.
Here is how I understood this money trap works. China is creating a new Silk Road that is not based of lands but most of it are in the water and air, they will offer help to third world countries by giving them funds to create infrastructures like ports, skyscrapers or airfields. There will be a timeframe for this help to be paid and as a poor country they offer exorbitant amount of money which is impossible if not difficult to be paid and then here is where the trap works, when the country can't pay the debt then the other option happens where China will have full control over the infrastructure including the land, basically they are buying lands from this nation without really buying it. Look at what happened to Sri Lanka when they haven't paid their debt.
What is the difference between China and Nazi Germany? Nazi Germany have a Swastika on their flag
Source for what happened to Sri Lanka:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40044113See the thing is , everyone is very well aware of what China is doing. China had indebted most of the small nations around like , Pakistan , Sri-Lanka and many more , this way they are one step ahead of all these small nations and with time , this debt is going to increase , which inturns will make the economic situation of these small countries worse , now what they are doing is asking them for small favours in lieu of the debt.
They are using economy to sway politics . But most of the countries have now started to shift their focus from China to other developing countries like India , if the report is true there are 1000's of countries which are shifting to India . Therefore I do believe this economic superiority will be short lived , in the near future there will be countries which will be shifting the production which inturns will put a leash on the economic boost.
But for right now with the new emerging pandemic potential viruses , I really think they are not as superior as the post potrays them to be.