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When I went to visit a friend in Zambia you could see all the infrastructure being built by the Chinese, however much to my friends disappointment they have com
by mothsonasloth 8y ago
When I went to visit a friend in Zambia you could see all the infrastructure being built by the Chinese, however much to my friends disappointment they have completely bypassed the local economy.
He says they setup work camps and have facilities so they can be isolated from the locals. A Chinese worker won't spend a single Yuan in Zambia.
He joked that it's colonisation 2.0
- wu-ikkyu 8y ago>He joked that it's colonisation 2.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
- reaperducer 8y agoThis is happening in a lot of countries, right under people’s noses and they don’t even know it. Even places you would never think, like Italy and yes, even the United States. (Sorry there’s no link. I tried to Google some of the recent newspaper articles I’ve read about it, but it’s simply not possible to search Google with the word “Chinese” on mobile and get anything but restaurant listings and reviews.)