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Huh? This sounds a lot like CCP arguments. Don't meddle in our affairs and tell us what to do. Problem is that China is practicing economic colonialism in Afric

Huh? This sounds a lot like CCP arguments. Don't meddle in our affairs and tell us what to do. Problem is that China is practicing economic colonialism in Africa as we speak and sabotaging and stealing tech from western corporations and govts at an unprecedented rate. Fortunately, the world is starting to wake up to the Chinese thuggery. China's days of breaking international law unpunitively are numbered.

chrischen 8y ago
Really no point arguing against this. My point is that Africa, China, can handle themselves for their own business dealings and don't need Americans (myself included) to protect them. Anything else is propaganda, meddling, whatever you want to call it.
- claplouder 8y ago
  It's not as simple as that. China has already debt-trapped Sri Lanka into giving up a port and is eyeing other African nations as it projects its navy across the Indian ocean trying to threaten India. Maybe the corrupt African leaders can give up African interests to China and it's their business, but Chinese interest obviously doesn't end there. Hence, it is, and should be of concern to all the other national interests in the area and globally. Sorry, China will not be allowed to do as they please considering their track record.
  - iknowstuff2 8y ago
    China hasn't debt trapped Sri Lanka with loans anymore than the World Bank would... How are the Chinese going to pickup the highways, bridges, harbors & railways and take them back to China if the debt is renneged on? Your cynical view of China should be applied to the US mining companies that reaked havoc in the Congo and similar actions the US has taken in the rest Africa (Libya was quite a prosperous nation with free education but now has a thriving slave market) without the benefit of leaving behind useful infrastructure.

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Huh? This sounds a lot like CCP arguments. Don't meddle in our affairs and tell us what to do. Problem is that China is practicing economic colonialism in Afric

by claplouder 8y ago

chrischen 8y ago
Really no point arguing against this. My point is that Africa, China, can handle themselves for their own business dealings and don't need Americans (myself included) to protect them. Anything else is propaganda, meddling, whatever you want to call it.
- claplouder 8y ago
  It's not as simple as that. China has already debt-trapped Sri Lanka into giving up a port and is eyeing other African nations as it projects its navy across the Indian ocean trying to threaten India. Maybe the corrupt African leaders can give up African interests to China and it's their business, but Chinese interest obviously doesn't end there. Hence, it is, and should be of concern to all the other national interests in the area and globally. Sorry, China will not be allowed to do as they please considering their track record.
  - iknowstuff2 8y ago
    China hasn't debt trapped Sri Lanka with loans anymore than the World Bank would... How are the Chinese going to pickup the highways, bridges, harbors & railways and take them back to China if the debt is renneged on? Your cynical view of China should be applied to the US mining companies that reaked havoc in the Congo and similar actions the US has taken in the rest Africa (Libya was quite a prosperous nation with free education but now has a thriving slave market) without the benefit of leaving behind useful infrastructure.