Commentary China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has hidden risks. It’s a debt trap. Not to mention a data trap. The dangers of the BRI have been well documented by many authors, myself included. Nevertheless, 142 countries around the world have signed up to the dangerous initiative. In December 2021, Cuba became the latest country to sign up. Will the Latin American nation come to regret this decision? On Dec. 26, Global Times, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), published a piece discussing the ways in which China and Cuba will work together on projects such as infrastructure, technology, culture, education, tourism, energy, communications and biotechnology,” which, we’re assured, “are in line with Cuba’s development plans for the short and long term.” Not only is the CCP planning to reshape Cuba’s infrastructural landscape, it’s planning to reshape the minds of the masses. What have culture, education, and communications got …