As we know China is making huge investments in Africa and it makes sense for China.
They need the natural resources and more land as well...especially farmland.
I think the next step will be to place a lot of Chinese personnel in Africa under the guise of advisors etc. They already have a military base there in Dijibouti which is on the horn of Africa.
China raises fears of 'new colonialism' with $60 billion investment across Africa
I read about this yesterday. They have a military base of some kind in Sri Lanka for 99 years because the Sri Lankans couldn't pay back the money that the Chinese are lending to various countries.
No sure if this is about colonialism, right now China seems content with taking land from:
And doesn't include the South China Sea or bits claimed that are Japanese or Korean.
Most Westerners think in the 'short term' like checkers players....China however like chess players 'think in the long term'..........the next step we will see is that of large numbers of Chinese advisors moving to China to be followed up by more and more of a military presence.
China says it will increase its military presence in Africa
Oh, definitely. However China is merely following what the US has done.
The difference is what China sees as a strategic country. The US thinks mostly in terms of oil. Iraq, Venezuela, Libya and Iran are strategic enemies.
Then you have North Korea which is a war hanging on from the Cold War and "Communism" which the US has never been able to drop and then China comes up and the US thinks it might be worth holding onto the war.
Then Afghanistan which was for the new war where Islam is the new enemy, and convenient because a lot of oil rich countries are Muslim.
China on the other hand is trying to gain international support. Right now it's all about Taiwan. They're going around cutting off international support for Taiwan. You can either trade with large China, or small Taiwan. They're squeezing the life out of Taiwan for petty bullshit reasons. Only Swaziland remains with Taiwan and that's the size of a small Chinese city in a continent nearly the size of China in population.
America was never a colonial power in Africa.......................
The Colonization of Africa
We did not even take the oil in Iraq when we conquered Saddam's regime. Bush's folly of declaring War on Iraq put us trillions of dollars in debt but we did not take the oil there.
Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study
Now the above figures are from 2013...we have spent a lot more there since...and the only country that really benefitted from our Iraq war was Iran.
The whole problem with N. Korea is that they are a puppet or proxy for China. We could have solved that problem a long time ago if not for China.
Truman was so afraid of provoking war with Russia he allowed the Chinese to come into Korea and thus the stalemate.
Well, you may think China's squeezing Taiwan for 'petty' reasons. The mainland Chinese do not see it that way.
It is a big priority for them...and with the increasing technology coming online which makes a tiny nation like Taiwan a potential big threat if they can acquire these new weapons systems ...thus the Chinese see Taiwan as a sword pointed at their belly.
No, American didn't colonize much. The Philippines and a few places in the Pacific, took part in the whole Chinese shabang.
That doesn't mean that the US didn't have a massive impact on Latin America, which it didn't colonize.
The same with Africa.
Mozambique and Angola, for example, were cases of leaving their Portuguese overlords and then war broke out. Basically Cold War proxy wars, Communists v. Capitalists, funding from the USSR v. funding from the USA.
The US helped to keep the Apartheid regime in South Africa, for example.
The whole oil thing isn't simple. It's not like "we invaded and took over the oil fields", if you think this is the issue, then it's not even worth talking.
In 1998 Hugo Chavez won, democratically, the election to be leader of Venezuela. He wanted to make OPEC strong again, so he made a meeting of OPEC leaders and they agreed to use their cartel to push up oil prices.
2002, there was a US funded coup against Hugo Chavez. It nearly succeeded. Chavez was in prison, two people became president during a week, and then it failed.
Why do you think the US wanted to depose the leader of Venezuela? Why would it care about some random country of 30 million people not even neighboring the US's neighbors?
OPEC is the answer.
The US wanted to weaken OPEC. Weaken OPEC and you don't have the cartel pumping up prices.
Four OPEC countries were against the US in 2001. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Venezuela.
Iraq's govt got taken down.
Libya's govt disappeared.
Iran has had crippling sanctions.
Venezuela has had crippling sanctions.
Oil prices have stayed relatively low.
No, the mainland Chinese don't see it as petty, then again the Chinese don't see things in a normal way most of the time anyway.