Who writes these headlines? They didn’t sign away anything they made a deal to sell some of their resources for some money. It might not be a good deal but they have the eventual ability to recover their resources at a later date if things don’t go the way they hoped. It might not be easy to get out of the deal but they can always use whatever military power they have. Personally I don’t think countries should be making deals with communist regimes but all nations do it so that their ruling class can have a good life. Our country does it all the time. We do it at a personal level every time we shop on Amazon. We have signed away our entire country.
We are a communist regime. We no longer have a border and we are actually no longer a country.