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Egypt is being puppeted by China, vast amounts of money is being poured in to elevate its image, culture and eliminate poverty in return of the massive surveillance state and iron grip from unpayable loans.

Checkout the "New Administration Capital". All digital currency, everyone is watched and monitored. Even the name is straight up unapologetically dystopian:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Administrative_Capital

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> Egypt is being puppeted by China

Sources? And depending on your definition of "puppeted", it looks like pretty much everyone on the world stage is "puppeted" by China.

There are plenty of sources if you search for it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/egypt-china-financing-idUSL5...

I mean, yes, but that's not a bad thing. We aren't going to be able to stop catastrophic climate change without authoritarianism.

China has brought on more coal powerplant last year than exist in the west on total. What are you talking about?

Coal in China supplies 53% of its electrical power. It is dropping slowly though. Hopefully they will succeed. Air pollution from those coal power plants is absolutely atrocious.

> The new capital of Egypt is yet to be given a name.

Did you read your link? You are talking about it's "dystopian name" but it's a placeholder, which every project has at some point. Sounds like fearmongering.

What's dystopian about the name? It's a new capital for the administration (ie government). Sounds like a pretty no-nonsense name to me

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