China enslaving Africa

THE TAKEOVER: CHINA IS BUILDING ENORMOUS SELF-SUSTAINING CHINESE CITIES ALL OVER THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

When it comes to foreign policy, China is playing chess while most of the western powers are playing checkers

Michael Snyder | End of the American Dream - DECEMBER 31, 2019 3 Comments
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During colonial times, European powers exploited Africa for the vast resources that it possesses.
But what China is doing today is actually much worse.
Yes, the Chinese greatly desire African resources, but ultimately what they want is Africa itself.
But instead of conquering Africa using military force, China is using economics instead.
Today, more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms are operating in Africa, and virtually every major road, bridge, railway and skyscraper is being built by the Chinese.
As a result, most African nations are very deeply indebted to China at this point.
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And as you will see below, when those debts go bad that gives the Chinese a tremendous amount of leverage.
Many people believe that the endgame for China is to make a whole lot more money and to gain control over a whole lot more resources. And China is undoubtedly pursuing those goals, but as Forbes has noted, ultimately what this is about is turning Africa “into another Chinese continent”…

The reason Chinese corporations are in Africa is simple; to exploit the people and take their resources. It’s the same thing European colonists did during mercantile times, except worse. The Chinese corporations are trying to turn Africa into another Chinese continent. They are squeezing Africa for everything it is worth.

Right now, approximately two million Chinese citizens already live in Africa, and that number is steadily rising with each passing month.
These days, it is difficult to find a major construction project on the continent that is not being handled by the Chinese, and this has enabled them to put their imprint on some of the largest African cities. For example, just check out what is happening in Nairobi, Kenya…

On the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, a small sign points to “Beijing Road,” where a new housing development called the Great Wall Apartments looks like the concrete towers you’d find in a Chinese city.
Across Africa, Chinese developers are building highways, light rail systems, apartment buildings, and entire cities.

Most of the “cities” that China is building are known as “special economic zones”. These “special economic zones” are essentially enormous self-sustaining Chinese cities that have been dropped right into some of the most strategic parts of Africa. For example, one of the biggest has been built right next to Lagos, Nigeria…

Next to Lagos, Nigeria, Chinese developers have built a walled-off “special economic zone”–basically a separate city, with separate rules designed to attract investors–based on a model they’ve used inside China for the last 30 years. After Shenzhen became a special economic zone in the 1980s, it went from a small town of 20,000 to, by some counts, 15 million today.

In these “special economic zones”, you will find Chinese factories staffed with Chinese managers that are supervising Chinese workers that are using Chinese equipment to make their products.
And the size of some of these projects is absolutely staggering. Just check out what has been planned for an area along the coast of Tanzania…

Bagamoyo, if the project goes ahead as planned, will be transformed into the largest port in Africa. That is looking ever more likely: after years of delay, the Tanzanian government says it is in the final stages of talks with state-run China Merchants Holdings International.
The lagoon will be dredged, to allow access to the vast cargo ships that will queue many miles out to sea. As for the special economic zone, the original masterplan shows factories in a fenced-off industrial area, and apartment blocks to accommodate the estimated future population of 75,000. There is even talk of an international airport. Many of the villagers have already accepted compensation for the loss of their homes.

Of course Chinese development is definitely not limited to these “special economic zones”. In Ethiopia, the capital city of the entire nation is literally becoming known as “the city that China built”…

Cars chug through the city on smooth Chinese roads, Chinese cranes lift the skyline, sewing machines hum in Chinese factories in Chinese-owned industrial parks, tourists arrive at the Chinese-upgraded airport and commuters ride modern Chinese trains to work.
Simply put, Addis Ababa is becoming the city that China built — but at what diplomatic and economic cost?

Yeah I kinda want to wall africa off its full of so many diseases

CHICAGO (Reuters) - China’s African swine fever outbreak is far more severe than previously thought and the full impact of the disease on animal feed producers has yet to be realized, U.S. agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Wednesday.

The spread of ASF in China, the world’s top pork consumer, has redrawn global food supply chains as the country has had to rely more on imported pork and less on domestic production.
That shift is reducing Chinese imports of raw soybeans, but ADM is expected to benefit as other countries expand livestock production to feed China. This boosts demand for ADM’s feed ingredients like soymeal. ADM operates 45 oilseed crushing and origination plants in Europe and the Americas, but none in China.
Annual pork production in China has likely dropped by 20 million tonnes this year, from ADM’s previous estimate of a 10-million-tonne decline, Young said.
“We thought that the impact on the global meal market would be felt by the end of the year, the fourth quarter, back half of the year,” Young said. “I think probably on a marginal basis, there’s been some positive impact. But the overall impact, we probably haven’t felt yet in terms of overall crush margins.”

Dr. Wantanee Kalpravidh: This African swine fever is a viral disease that can infect domestic pigs and also wild boar, and it can cause up to 100% case fatality. And because this virus is quite stable, it can survive a long time. If the wild boar die of this disease, that carcass, even though it's rotten, it still carries the virus and can pass on to the domestic pigs.
That disease can come in from so many means, including people. Human beings can carry the virus from our clothes, from our body. Flies can also be one of the means of virus transmission. So it is challenging in terms of the best security.

I find it amazing how I've been warning of China since as early at 1997.

But intel is a political game in the west, and the populace deluded.


ok boomer...

Africans are actually very happy with the loans:

"Though China loaned a whopping $95.5bn on the continent between 2000 and 2015, researchers at the China Africa Research Initiative found most of this was spent addressing Africa’s infrastructure gap. Some 40% of the Chinese loans paid for power projects, and another 30% went on modernising transport infrastructure. The loans were at comparatively low interest rates and with long repayment periods.
“The risk for African borrowers relates to the project’s profitability,” says Cari director Deborah Bräutigam. “Will they be able to generate enough economic activity through these projects to repay these loans? Or are the projects seen more as ribbon-cutting opportunities? The Chinese believe that ports and special economic zones are a ‘win-win’ development tool. It’s what they did at home at an earlier stage of their development.”

"Many African people certainly see grounds for optimism. Almost two-thirds of Tanzanians view China favourably, compared with less than half of Europeans and Americans, according to the Pew Research Center."


"As Bagamoyo readies for a seismic transformation from sleepy town to mega-port, the residents seem to feel unanimously positive. From the taxi drivers in the old town in their starched white kanzu cotton robes to the fashionable young restaurant manager, all were confident they would profit from more businesses, more offices, more jobs, more money. The original masterplan includes talk of schools and health centres, playgrounds and fibre-optic broadband."

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/31/china-in-africa-win-win-development-or-a-new-colonialism

Basically, China succeeds where the west failed and of course China's motives are clear, but we just have let it slip out of our hands, they are building infrastructure which actually might help the continent, that's more than the west ever did for them.

its disgusting whats going on

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Thousands of Zimbabweans are facing eviction as another Chinese investor prepares to take over a mine-rich village on the outskirts of the capital Harare.

The generosity of President Mnangagwa’s government to Chinese investors is threatening the livelihoods of thousands of villagers in a rural suburb of Harare.
The Standard reports that up to 20,000 villagers face eviction from their homes in Domboshava, a mountainous neighbourhood overlooking the capital as a Chinese investor prepares to launch mining operations.
According to the newspaper, while Aihua Jianye Company unveiled plans to invest 500 million dollars in the quarry mine, the project is allegedly mired in corruption.
The Standard quotes Deputy Information Minister, Energy Mutodi who is also a lawmaker for Domboshava, as claiming that the license was granted without prior consultations with residents within a 5km radius from the mining site, who are now facing eviction.

According to Nyathi, more disturbing is the fact that the 500 million dollars announced by the company are not royalties paid to the government but projected investments in the mining venture.

It has been evident for years that China has been jockeying for the seat at the head of the table. It is unfortunate that world governments have given money, equipment, and technology to China for so many years. I hate that the US gave up so much to China for no real benefit. Whoever signed the deal that said that China could have all of our technology needs to be spartan kicked off a boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The only thing that I see as a positive is that they are still a communist country (whether it is presented to the public directly or not) so like all communist countries they are doomed to fail.

Yes, and what did the west do last centuries?

I know it is an uncomfortable truth, but it is how it is, and as long as the majority of Africans agrees with what China is doing, well bad luck for us.

Do I agree what with China is doing? No, I just stated the truth that fails in the article from Infowars and, and I proved that Africans in general are in favor of what China is doing, you only stated that some are unhappy but in general they aren't:

https://chinapower.csis.org/global-views/

Yup but they don't want to talk about what the west was doing in Africa for hundreds of years.

No, these people like to point their fingers all the time, nothing is ever wrong with them it's always the other.
Strength lies in seeing your own shortcomings, weakness lays in constantly blaming the other.

With those people and their president in charge it's only a matter of time before the west turns poorer, and they can only blame themselves.

They don't even realize how we came to this point, and a clue is that the west didn't do a very good job in Africa last century and China is profiting from that.

majority of africans ?

Are you huffing paint again the elites are the ones that are making the money not the poor

A good infrastructure will benefit everyone, the poor remain poor, like in our world, but less poor than before.

Again, it is very simple to understand that China is in this position because of the west failing to actually do something for the people in Africa, now I'm sure that China doesn't help out of goodwill, but they understand better than us that having that goodwill will actually help dominating that continent fairly quickly.

We enslaved the African people for centuries, and they see China as their way out, well good for them, and yes they might be deceived but at least they've tried.

You can be angry and point your finger, but it won't stop China from taking over the power nor will it stop the decline of the western world, although western ideas will live on in modern China.

You act as though infrastructure was not laid in Africa before the Chinese came, this is blatantly false and inaccurate.

Empire of Dust was a great documentary!

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"Western ideals will live on in modern China"

I direct you to a brief excerpt from "Document #9"

The Seven Noteworthy Problems

The document specifically addresses the following issues that were seen as problems. These are the terms used in the document itself:

1. Promoting Western Constitutional Democracy: An attempt to undermine the current leadership and the "socialism with Chinese characteristics" system of governance. (Including the separation of powers, the multi-party system, general elections, and independent judiciaries.)
2. Promoting “universal values” in an attempt to weaken the theoretical foundations of the Party’s leadership. (That “the West’s values are the prevailing norm for all human civilization”, that “only when China accepts Western values will it have a future”.)
3. Promoting civil society in an attempt to dismantle the ruling party’s social foundation. (i.e. that individual rights are paramount and ought to be immune to obstruction by the state.)
4. Promoting Neoliberalism, attempting to change China’s Basic Economic System. (i.e. unrestrained economic liberalization, complete privatization, and total marketization.)
5. Promoting the West’s idea of journalism, challenging China’s principle that the media and publishing system should be subject to Party discipline.
6. Promoting historical nihilism, trying to undermine the history of the CPC and of New China. (For example to deny the scientific and guiding value of Mao Zedong thought.)
7. Questioning Reform and Opening and the socialist nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. (For example, saying “We have deviated from our Socialist orientation.”)

It's not blatantly false and inaccurate, we build some, but left almost every native born African out of it, China might do the same we can't be sure but their projects are more ambitious than we ever done and they actually made some promises about building schools and internet etc.
But yeah, China surely isn't an angel neither so I won't believe it until I see it.


And what most people here fail to do, is to look at the situation with African glasses on, you might find out that they look very different at it than us, with a western view. As long as you cannot do that you will never understand. I guess most Africans don't give a shit about the west and I can't really blame them for that. They just want to move forward, and believe me, Africa is starting to be much more than the backward view the west has of it.

My god you really know nothing about the history of Africa, nor the policies of the Chinese.

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Lots of that technology was simply stolen.

China isn't a communist country. They are a neo-fascist oligarchy.

Africans enslaved their own people before the west ever did and slavery is still there.

That’s what happens with an continent that isn’t able to build up stable economies for itself. And don’t say that for whatever reason they couldn’t because that would be an insult to all the good upcoming economies who all endured their own hardships. The Chinese are just smarter at this game. Smarter then Africa and smarter then ‘the West’. Give ‘em 50 more years and see where they will be at. Africa will be colonized 2.0 (bought), that’s for sure.

India must hold their own you don't hear much about them