Posted on 10/22/2008 5:34:37 AM PDT by Oakeshott
In Guangzhou, a 10 square kilometer area centered around Hongqiao has been given the name “Chocolate City” by taxi drivers.
Every day after noon, “Chocolate City” begins to turn lively. Tens of thousands of black people seem to erupt from the ground in groups of twos and threes. Carrying large black plastic bags or wearing backpacks, they look through the stalls along the street. The stalls are filled with “tail goods” (尾货, excess production that did not meet quality standards) from thousands of small factories throughout Guangdong: blue jeans, unbranded television sets, hand-assembled cell phones.
In distant Africa, nearly 50 countries exploding with demand have opened their arms wide, and are rapidly digesting all of these consumer products not produced locally. Based on Chinese official statistics, during this period of China-Africa trade fever that started in 2003, the number of Africans headed to Guangzhou has been growing at annual rates of 30-40%.
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A lot of the heavily "discounted" and "pirated" electronics sold in the US are actually factory rejects.
They aren't supposed to be sold.
Just wait till 0bama and Co. take over.
They will bring over tens of millions of Africans and other Third Worlders, to ensure a Republican President is never elected again.
“Chocolate City”? Ray Nagin is gonna be pissed!
What? The hundreds of billions of dollars of aid has not stimulated African economies to provide jobs? How can that be?
What could possibly go wrong?
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As far as I know, many local guys are pissed about that.
It goes both ways. What most people don’t know is that there are more Chinese in Africa than Africans in China.
Local Africans are also pissed about the presence of Chinese in Africa (check Zambia).
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