Africa is just being Africa. Now its the Chinese turn to learn.
Africa wins again!
Chinese try to build a road in Africa. 1 hour documentary.
“Empire of Dust”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkrYW3vF0o
Insightful analysis by Sundance. China reminds me of the proverbial paper tiger.
China will just turn off their electricity until they come into compliance. But their people have to be gone first.
“Debt trap diplomacy”. Why import slaves when you can work them in their home country and steal their resources at the same time. Once you own their resources, where else they gonna work? We need to push back against China doing the same in South and Central America. An economic foothold in the Americas will eventually become a military foothold.
“China is now evacuating some of the 300,000+ Chinese citizens from the region”
Direct flights to LA.
The reverse East India Company.
The “big picture” is that China will be our principal near peer (political, economic and militarily), competitor, and threat.
Not Russia. Russia merely doesn’t want us gobbling them up as we have in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and attempted in Republic of Georgia and Ukraine, all as we talk about them wanting to rebuild some Soviet empire (laughable). Russia is merely trying to prevent us from taking their school lunch, and we’re threatening to beat them up unless they submit.
China meantime appears on an unstable accent economically, politically, technologically and militarily.
They care little about our threats anymore. Our leverage is diminished by our dependence on them and they know this: their market size, being a manufacturing base for our big corporations, them holding onto US securities.
We need them as much as they need us, we are a smaller share of the world economy today (22% vs 40+% in 1960), China has developed a domestic market and tapped into many foreign markets outside the US, EU and Mexico for example.
Constantly there are doom and gloom stories in our media about Chinese economic bubbles bursting, their GDP growth slowing... These stories seem to be more “wishful thinking” than anything else, and seldom even partially turn out as true.
Reality has China already passing us in terms of PPP, manufacturing (double our size!!!), several key technologies. They far exceed us in electric, steel, concrete, glass, production; miles of new road and rail added by year.
In ten years, China will achieve nuclear parity: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/30173/the-countries-expanding-their-nuclear-arsenal/
In ten years, China will have the ability to stand their ground against us: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/China-Military-Budget-Graphic.png?x85095
Their Belt and Road initiative (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative) amounts to China coming out of their shell and begging to take their position on the world stage as a global power.
Ten years-
A couple thoughts...
1.) Why even try dealing with Africans? It’s not going to work out for you. It will never end well. Either conquer them and take their stuff or don’t bother.
2.) Central planning will double the chances of it not working out and will only speed the failure of the venture.
3.) For all of those criticizing China for going around the world trying to create vassal states by making false promises of improved living and economic conditions.....while that isn’t morally right to do, it is FAR more moral than the U.S. creating vassal states by selling weapons to warlords for use against their own populations and their neighbors.
Red China is finding out that Africa always wins.
Schadenfreude. Remember the panic stricken people who said that China was going to take over Africa? Because China isn’t afraid to use military power they said. Some people worship power. But, Africa always wins. Ideas are more powerful than weapons. And the overweening arrogance of the Chinese eventually antagonizes everyone.
