Algiers tense after clashes with Chinese traders (Chinese mob violence in Algeria)

AFP ^ | 08/05/09 | Abdellah Cheballah

[TigerLikesRooster]

Algiers tense after clashes with Chinese traders

by Abdellah Cheballah

Wed Aug 5, 10:02 pm ET

ALGIERS (AFP) – The streets of Algiers are deserted following clashes between Chinese and Algerian traders, but the tension is palpable despite comments by Beijing's envoy describing the unrest as an isolated incident.

"I thought I was going to die," said Abdelkrim Salaouda, sitting on a chair in front of his shop selling household electrical goods in the city's Bab Ezzouar quarter, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the city centre.

According to Salaouda, the clashes broke out over a dispute on Monday afternoon between a Chinese man and a young Algerian who was accused of having parked his car near his shop.

His brother came to his aid, but around 50 Chinese men, armed with swords, knives and iron bars then set upon the Algerian traders in support of their compatriot, residents said.

[TigerLikesRooster]

"They drink alcohol in front of their shops and in full view of the Algerians and often parade about in shorts in the area. This sort of behaviour is against our religion and our culture," said Abdellah, another resident.

Chinese are doing the exact same thing migrant Muslims do in other countries; ignoring local laws and customs, imposing their own instead, and mob violence. The public atmosphere further improves for Algerian branch of Al Qaeda, which vowed to avenge Uighurs in Xinjiang.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[doc1019]

I didn’t know there were Chinese in Algeria … learn something every day.

[1000 silverlings]

The Chinese Empire is busy colonizing Africa, raping it of its minerals and other raw materials.It’s also a close ally of Kenya, so no telling what kind of politics are really going on. With no news outlets interested in reporting anything but entertainment news, we are hopelessly ignorant of world affairs. Maybe the chinese have the deranged one’s birth certificate, in this screwy world who knows what the truth is

[April Lexington]

I do know from business experience that the Chinese don’t have much of an opinion of Africans. This could get interesting...

[TigerLikesRooster]

They could secure a beachhead somewhere in Africa, and settle tens of millions of Chinese. Its population could expand from there, displacing locals.
What would anybody in the West do? Lots of complaining but little real actions, I suspect.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Wonder how many Chinese carry-out shops they have there, and still in one piece?

Won-tons, anyone?

Gotta beat camel dim-sum!

[1000 silverlings]

Yep, those natives tend to get a tad restless. I wonder what will happen when the Chinese overlords start confining the local populace to shanty towns and forcing apartheid on them. They already bring in about 70 per cent of the work force, and are unloading their nuclear waste toaster ovens and other crapola on the people there. The Chinese pay off the elite who are only too happy to make a big profit while they sell their country and its citizens down the river, sound familiar?

[1000 silverlings]

Worse, Africa has about 50 nations in the UN, soon to be Chinese

[April Lexington]

I've seen it with me own eyes. We could NEVER exploit blacks like that in the Western World. But,in Africa, anything goes...

The Chinese see an empty continent full of resources for the taking...Same thing with South America...

[April Lexington]

They could secure a beachhead somewhere in Africa, and settle tens of millions of Chinese. Its population could expand from there, displacing locals. What would anybody in the West do? Lots of complaining but little real actions, I suspect.

Have you traveled to the Caribbean lately. Its happening on a number of islands. They show up to build "free" public works projects for the local black government and then...they stay and make Chinese babies... Thousands of them... The intent is to out populate them and then take control... A billion people can do some pretty amazing stuff!

[April Lexington]

It has been my observation that, if you are black, the last place on earth you would want to live is China. To put it mildly, they don’t appreciate the nuance...

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yes, Castros's and Chavez's of Latin America do not realize the cost of inviting China into the region, because they are so fixated on shoving it to U.S. Chinese come, won't leave, their population will grow rapidly, and won't assimilate to local society. They will grow their own society which will eclipse the existing one someday.

Demographics has been the useful strategy of expansion by Chinese for a long time.

[TheMole]

I have no special love for the Chinese, but Algeria has been a violence-wracked hellhole for at least 50 years. It’s an Arab and Berber country; definitely not black Africa. Natural resource exploitation is done by French companies with state connections who pay off the Algerian authorities.

[April Lexington]

Yep. They’ve been doing this for 6,000 years. They understand patience. These leftist governments are so corrupt that its a cake walk for the Chinese. The Han are an amazing people and they will likely win in the end...

[April Lexington]

I think China is the world’s best hope against Islam. They simply cannot tolerate any challenge to the Emperor (Communist Party).

[TigerLikesRooster]

I don't think Chinese would care much about the ethnic differences. I think they are all Africans for them.

Algeria has been in trouble domestically for a long time. They ended up exporting sizable share of it abroad. Now, troubles came to Algeria, in the form of Chinese migrants. Algeria is now in a bigger trouble. Especially when and if local Al Qaeda ally gets active using Xinjiang incident as a pretext.

[April Lexington]

a violence-wracked hellhole for at least 50 years

\ Merci, Charles De Gaul!!!! Ain't colonialism wonderful? Really screwed up Paris, too!

[April Lexington]

I suspect more Algerians will be moving to France and that sets off a bunch of issues...

[TigerLikesRooster]

Imagine the human cost of pushing such a strategy. It is great for rulers, but ordinary Chinese are merely treated as hundreds of millions of tiny pawns for the rulers.

People become just numbers. This has been going on even before Stalin and Hitler came of age.

Chinese history has been punctuated with recurring instance of huge population growth followed by mass die-out.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[April Lexington]

Yes. Exactly. But that's why so many Chinese are so eager to colonize. It gets them out of the motherland, they can actually breath the air and they can have more than one child. Escape for them and colonization for the Chinese government. The only losers, in the long run, are the locals... Some of these Island “nations” have fewer than 100,000 citizens so it won't take all that long to become a majority.

[arthurus]

But then who is the world’s hope against China?We were once but have abjured that role.

[The Duke]

His brother came to his aid, but around 50 Chinese men, armed with swords, knives and iron bars then set upon the Algerian traders in support of their compatriot, residents said.

OMG - I think I just had a 70's flashback!!!

Now I'm wondering if their words matched their mouth movements(?)

[blam]

"I do know from business experience that the Chinese don’t have much of an opinion of Africans. This could get interesting..."

My neighbor married a woman from China and she brought her 19 year old son...when trying to describe Blacks, the first word he used was lazy. There's no PC with these folks.

[blam]

"I think China is the world’s best hope against Islam. They simply cannot tolerate any challenge to the Emperor (Communist Party)."

I agree. Line'm up and shoot them.

[Oil_trash]

For those that aren't aware China already owns (controls) Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Nepal through its people whom for a variety of reasons left the motherland and have become wealthy and powerful in their new home countries. Most of these folks fled the communist regime but are now forming close political and business ties with the mainland because its good business and China now has alot of clout.

I expect the communist have now long realized that their overseas citizenry can outwork, out-think, most others and are quite eager to further expand where allowed.

For more on this read “Lords of the Rim” by Stearling Seagrave

[Clemenza]

On another note, its getting to the point where every (usually Chinese) Asian woman in New York is married to a (metrosexual yuppie douchebag) white guy. This would NOT happen in Algeria.

The Chinese diaspora is similar to the old Jewish diaspora in Europe in the sense where they fill a mercantile vacuum in countries that lack a large entrepreneurial class, and they tend to do everything possible to cozy up to the elites of said countries in order to get protection. This is NOT viewed kindly by the (envious) locals.

[April Lexington]

My neighbor married a woman from China and she brought her 19 year old son...when trying to describe Blacks, the first word he used was lazy. There's no PC with these folks.

The Chinese refer to themselves as a highly disciplined society. Laziness is very much frowned upon and can cost you your wealth or your life. I won't go into detail on a public forum, but, yes...PC skills are not up front. Political skills, however, are greatly rewarded...

They are not in any way, shape or form, enamored with Rap music or Bling culture. In fact, they tend to refer to Europeans as 'Barbarians."

[April Lexington]

Excellent book! To the victors go the spoils of war...

Lesson learned: Education (rather that the usual socialist indoctrination degree) is VERY important for survival.

[April Lexington]

On another note, its getting to the point where every (usually Chinese) Asian woman in New York is married to a (metrosexual yuppie douchebag) white guy. This would NOT happen in Algeria.

I am quite sure that the precious "green card" has nothing at all to do with any of this....

[April Lexington]

But then who is the world’s hope against China?We were once but have abjured that role.

It sounds strange, but China may be America's best hope for survival. We just need to get our ducks in order. They would much prefer to deal with Republican administrations because Republicans are good for business. China has little interest in watching its largest trading partner deteriorate from within...

[Clemenza]

I see a return to old school “spheres of influence”/balance of power realpolitik. Personally, I think this is a positive development, and will be much cheaper in terms of dollars and lives than some damn fool idealistic crusade for “democracy” in countries that don’t have “democratic” cultures.

[SaraJohnson]

This will be an interesting mix! Muslims against commies! They are together in effort of total, centralized oppression of “christian enemies” in western nations. Not so elsewhere? It will be interesting to see how Chinese infiltration into Nations who are not dominated by Leftist western haters (like Obama and the EU) works. It is not going to work.