Posted on 07/19/2008 12:03:11 PM PDT by Lorianne
China's breathtaking transformation of their own country over the past couple of decades is accompanied by robust new Chinese enterprises all over the world. In this report on China's activities in Africa, the Chinese are seen to be involved in infrastructure projects across this vast continent.
Everything about Africa is writ large - during the past twenty years, as China's economy exploded, Africa's population doubled. There are now over 900 million people living in Africa, and collectively the Africans have lower per capita wealth than the peoples of any other continent. But the potential in this vast land mass of over 3.0 million square kilometers - over 20% of the total land surface on earth and second only to Asia in size - is immense.
China brings to the Africans infrastructure projects that are, arguably, at lower cost and with fewer conditions than any other nation. They are now 2nd only to the United States as Africa's largest trading partner, and according to Columbia University economist Jeffery Sachs, "China gives fewer lectures and more practical help and thus offers Africa something new, a straightforward business relationship between equals based on mutual interest and non-interference in the internal affairs of its allies."
(Excerpt) Read more at ecoworld.com ...
Replacing one colonizer for another?
Observation seems to indicate the Chinese Communist Government does not believe its purpose is to secure the inalienable rights of those it governs.
Communism + Capitalism =
Simply another form by which the collective hive expands its powers and demands worship and servitude from the assimilated.
Got Baal?
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