China Loots Africa
In the 1960s, China formed a unique brand of socialism that was built not on the back of factory workers but on the back of peasants. Chinese peasants mounted a historic and intense struggle for socialism.
Many developing countries particularly warmed to china, including nations that were neither socialist nor communist from Zimbabwe, Angola, and Mazambique to Tanzania. African people looked to China with fondness. In China they saw a poor comrade with whom they had been humiliated in imperial wars and a nation that had triumphed in the face of mounting obstacles.
This fond comradeship took a dive when Deng Xiaoping instituted the reforms in the 70s.From then on China would follow a pseudo -imperialistic policy towards Africa. China knows she cannot conquer Asia economically due to Japanese pre-eminence and Asia‘ s relatively developed and competitive economies.
Wild West
Helped by foolish and incompetent African leaders the Chinese government is launching a long term investment in and acquisition of African mineral wealth with total disregard of human rights abuses of the regimes and environmental concerns.
Gullible African leaders often boast about the ease of doing business with China.”They do not question us about democracy and human rights.”You will always here government officials say.
African leaders are usually too stupid to be taken seriously. Sometimes you wonder how such a concentration of stupid and narrow minds easily find their way too politics and concentrate around power and decision making.
The truth is that China is growing at the expense of Africa ,and the Chinese officials ,usually used to strict bureaucratic control of government business ,are having field day sealing deals with these gullible Africans in this fools’ paradise. To the Chinese, Africa is the Wild West.
The Future
Yet as in the past it is the young generation of Africans, who are currently growing under great deprivation due to the corruption and foolishness of the leaders that they elect, who will pay the price for this “Look East Policy “.By the it’s not even policy, it’s just a mantra, sung by the gullible ,who by some twist of fate always trace all our problems to the colonial period, from the spread of AIDS ,under stocked hospitals, government corruption ,famine and all the problems that ever bedeviled this continent.
In Africa, you cannot have a genuine debate about the future…..there’s always a ready and unequivocal chant: Colonialism. It is always a convenient excuse. For every African who looks forward into the future, you will always find a million voices that look to the Past.