"A copy of the loan contract reviewed by NPR shows that if Montenegro is not able to repay China's state-owned Export-Import Bank on time, the bank then has the right to seize land inside Montenegro"

Do EU contracts contain that sort of language? China knew they would never get paid back on this loan and made specifically to extract political and diplomatic concessions when the inevitable renegotiation happens.

Furthermore China requires Chines state owned companies get the contracts for doing the work, so much of the money the lend out comes straight back to them.

Don't forget about the taxation aspect - as the sales of petrol and diesel fall, so does the tax revenue.

In many countries tax represents over half of the end-user price of petrol and diesel. How will governments replace this as the revenue drops away?

What Italy has, though, is very violent and abusive law enforcement, to the point where it's unbecoming of a first-world country.

So I can definitely see how that would be a concern.

What kind of algorithm is used to ensure different scans of the same picture return the same hash? At first glance it seems like a hard problem.