The last thing China wants is more people to control.
They have gone into Africa, paid off the leaders, and exploited the resources. They send in their own people. They use locals for scut work.
They don’t give a hoot about the native people. They don’t care about the environment. And they really don’t care if little girls go to school.
China doesn’t want to occupy anyone. They want to control the world’s economy.
Zactly....Hence their debt bombs and the world sees the leadership of those countries fleeing for their lives, at some point, headed to their villas in Dubai or homes in Europe with all the money they stole.
China isn’t sending in troops. No need to. Might be some engineers and a few others involved with that work, as supervisors. Security and labor will be provided by the well paid Taliban.
If it goes sideways for China, Oh Well. It’s happened to them before.