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Hopefully, the Chinese will be less demanding while helping to build Infrastructure in some African Countries.
How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried | Mail Online
How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
You may have a point! But whatever the Chinese are doing cosmetically, a prime underlying motive is the export of critical resources to China! Whether the Chinese are neo-Colonists remains to be seen.
Sure looks like colonialism/slavery to some people;
PETER HITCHENS: How China has created a new slave empire in Africa | Mail Online
PETER HITCHENS: How China has created a new slave empire in Africa
Why did they want to kill us? What was the reason for their fury? They thought that if I reported on their way of life they might lose their livings.
Livings? Dyings, more likely.
Peking power: A Chinese supervisor cajoles local workers as they dig a trench in Kabwe, Zambia
These poor, hopeless, angry people exist by grubbing for scraps of cobalt and copper ore in the filth and dust of abandoned copper mines in Congo, sinking perilous 80ft shafts by hand, washing their finds in cholera-infected streams full of human filth, then pushing enormous two-hundredweight loads uphill on ancient bicycles to the nearby town of Likasi where middlemen buy them to sell on, mainly to Chinese businessmen hungry for these vital metals.
To see them, as they plod miserably past, is to be reminded of pictures of unemployed miners in Thirties Britain, stumbling home in the drizzle with sacks of coal scraps gleaned from spoil heaps.
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