If any colonialism is being done, it certainly is not being done by China. The "China.Debt Trap" nonsense has been.debunked too many times to count. As cited below.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/ch...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-tra...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QDEWwSkP0 (Bloomberg)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19480881.2023.2... (From 2023)

Even where I am,CHEC is used as a local political tool, not the other way around.