Belt and Road wasn’t goodwill.

A lot of it was financed through large (sometimes unsustainable) loans to recipient countries, sometimes leading to unsustainable debt burdens, irrespective of the potential ROI for the recipient (ie Sri Lanka’s port).

In many cases, much of that debt paid for Chinese companies, contractors, suppliers, and imported workers who built or operated the projects.

And the infrastructure didn’t necessarily line up with the recipient’s actual needs, mostly with China’s (ie the Laos–China railway, in large part financed by Laotian debt, which may someday bring some benefits to Laos, but mostly serves China’s regional trade ambitions).

Not to say other countries do it better or have purer ambitions or whatever. It’s just the "goodwill" part that made me twitch.