As an African, I feel Africans collectively need to grow a spine. How can another man beat me down, in this day and age unless I let him? Countries like Congo and Kenya are being milked dry and exploited by the Chinese. It is sickening
China says it will increase its military presence in Africa
- Thread starter T'krm
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Aren't they building stuff over there?
What's flawed about it?
*insert fisherman analogy*
Reducing Western influence is a good thing and Africa is 52 countries. Stop the f*ckshyt.
Do you like anything below the equator breh ?
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Reducing Western influence is a good thing and Africa is 52 countries. Stop the f*ckshyt.
Do you like anything below the equator breh ?
I want to visit Jo'burg one day
Rollo Goodlove
Palestine Titty
Chinkanda it is 
UncleTomFord15
Veteran
Joke of a continent
Some Africans are progressing forward nicely without too much foreign intervention. Senegal, Ghana, Botswana, Algeria, Mali, Tanzania, etc. But I get disappointed hearing these stories of the Chinese pushing Africans around, but only because I know Africans let them. The Chinese are build up settlements for themselves. The African soil and people are just tools.
T'krm
Superstar
China is Treating Africa The Same Way European Colonists Did.
The reason China is 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 corporations owned by the Chinese state are trying to turn Africa into another Chinese continent. They are squeezing Africa for everything it is worth.
This is the view several African politicians have. The Zambian politician Michael Sata was one of them. At least he was before being elected President of Zambia in 2011. He wrote a paper presented to Harvard University in 2007 that said “European colonial exploitation in comparison to Chinese exploitation appears benign, because even though the commercial exploitation was just as bad, the colonial agents also invested in social and economic infrastructure services Chinese investment, on the other hand, is focused on taking out of Africa as much as can be taken out, without any regard to the welfare of the local people.”
Africa’s Equities Have Underperformed Emerging Markets
ETF__________________________ _________ 5-year performance (%)
VanEck Vectors Africa Index_______________________ (AFK) -21.69
iShares China Large-Cap________________________ FXI) 22.14
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets______________________ (EEM) 12.32
Globalization managed to skip Africa by for years. There were several reasons for this. Africa was considered to have poor infrastructure, political instability, and low income. Everything changed when China came along. The country was desperate for raw materials and energy to power their growing manufacturing capacity. They put Africa on the globalization map. The continent was placed right next to Shanghai in terms of Beijing’s business priorities.
Africa was at the top of the Beijing economic agenda. It was an easy and convenient target. Chinese leaders sent business delegations to every capital in Africa year after year. These delegates secured infrastructure projects and proposed trade deals, converting Africa into a “second continent” for China.
Howard W. French describes the situation in the book China’s Second Continent, explaining; ““Sensing that Africa had been cast aside by the West in the wake of the Cold War, Beijing saw the continent as the perfect proving ground for some Chinese companies to cut their teeth in international business. It certainly did not hurt that Africa was also the repository of an immense share of global resources—raw materials that were vital both for China’s extraordinary ongoing industrial expansion and for its across-the-board push for national reconstruction.”
The long arm of globalization had touched Africa. Trade between China and the “second continent” of Africa reached close to $400 billion in 2015.
Not everyone feels that China is attempting to turn Africa into a Chinese colony though. One such person is Ching Kwan Lee, a professor at the University of California. Lee argued in the Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017) that the investments the Chinese state made in Africa weren’t made as “imperialists” or “colonialists”. Nor were ones by private corporations. Chinese corporations aren’t being motivated by profits. They have a long-term horizon in mind, and they make for good local citizens. The Chinese people in Africa pay their fair share of taxes to the countries they do business with. Lee goes so far as to contend that Chinese corporations actually promote African independence and autonomy, rather than the usual dependence that is associated with colonialism. China is helping Africa to stand by themselves, rather than making Africa dependent on them.
Maybe it would be best to avoid sharing this opinion with the Pakistanis and Sri Lankans that are heavily indebted to China. These are the people that are most at-risk of becoming modern-day colonies for Beijing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosm...same-way-european-colonists-did/#641e50d8298b
The reason China is 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 corporations owned by the Chinese state are trying to turn Africa into another Chinese continent. They are squeezing Africa for everything it is worth.
This is the view several African politicians have. The Zambian politician Michael Sata was one of them. At least he was before being elected President of Zambia in 2011. He wrote a paper presented to Harvard University in 2007 that said “European colonial exploitation in comparison to Chinese exploitation appears benign, because even though the commercial exploitation was just as bad, the colonial agents also invested in social and economic infrastructure services Chinese investment, on the other hand, is focused on taking out of Africa as much as can be taken out, without any regard to the welfare of the local people.”
Africa’s Equities Have Underperformed Emerging Markets
ETF__________________________ _________ 5-year performance (%)
VanEck Vectors Africa Index_______________________ (AFK) -21.69
iShares China Large-Cap________________________ FXI) 22.14
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets______________________ (EEM) 12.32
Globalization managed to skip Africa by for years. There were several reasons for this. Africa was considered to have poor infrastructure, political instability, and low income. Everything changed when China came along. The country was desperate for raw materials and energy to power their growing manufacturing capacity. They put Africa on the globalization map. The continent was placed right next to Shanghai in terms of Beijing’s business priorities.
Africa was at the top of the Beijing economic agenda. It was an easy and convenient target. Chinese leaders sent business delegations to every capital in Africa year after year. These delegates secured infrastructure projects and proposed trade deals, converting Africa into a “second continent” for China.
Howard W. French describes the situation in the book China’s Second Continent, explaining; ““Sensing that Africa had been cast aside by the West in the wake of the Cold War, Beijing saw the continent as the perfect proving ground for some Chinese companies to cut their teeth in international business. It certainly did not hurt that Africa was also the repository of an immense share of global resources—raw materials that were vital both for China’s extraordinary ongoing industrial expansion and for its across-the-board push for national reconstruction.”
The long arm of globalization had touched Africa. Trade between China and the “second continent” of Africa reached close to $400 billion in 2015.
Not everyone feels that China is attempting to turn Africa into a Chinese colony though. One such person is Ching Kwan Lee, a professor at the University of California. Lee argued in the Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2017) that the investments the Chinese state made in Africa weren’t made as “imperialists” or “colonialists”. Nor were ones by private corporations. Chinese corporations aren’t being motivated by profits. They have a long-term horizon in mind, and they make for good local citizens. The Chinese people in Africa pay their fair share of taxes to the countries they do business with. Lee goes so far as to contend that Chinese corporations actually promote African independence and autonomy, rather than the usual dependence that is associated with colonialism. China is helping Africa to stand by themselves, rather than making Africa dependent on them.
Maybe it would be best to avoid sharing this opinion with the Pakistanis and Sri Lankans that are heavily indebted to China. These are the people that are most at-risk of becoming modern-day colonies for Beijing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosm...same-way-european-colonists-did/#641e50d8298b
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The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Western propaganda
Secure Da Bag
Veteran
Don't disagree. But it doesn't mean it's false.
T'krm
Superstar
Which part?
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Most of it, if not all. Westerners are afraid that they ‘lose’ Africa. It’s yellow peril