Let the Chinese pour their money into the infinite cesspool that is Africa. Their short term gains will be lost by the huge costs of disease, strife, and bitterness carried back home.
Should work out just about as well as “The Great Leap Forward.”
You are clearly not intellectually inquisitive enough to appreciate the diversity and potential of Africa. You are simply rehashing warmed up stereotypes of Africa perpetuated by decades of lazy journalism.
Americans (especially conservatives) have little interest in Africa. As an African, I respect and understand that. However, what we cannot tolerate are ignorant dismissive smug remarks about Africa, China and the Chinese strategy for doing business in a diverse and complex continent. Three topics which you neither have any real interest in nor do you understand.
You may be better than the Chinese, but the Chinese seem to have a better understanding of the World, its potential and how to engage with it than you do. Your nation is wasting billions of dollars to install Islamist regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan whilst the Chinese are investing strategically. You are wasting billions in aid to Africa, while the Chinese are building special economic zones in preparation for their transition to manufacturing higher value goods.
Right at your door step, the Chinese are gradually gaining ground in Latin America.
These are still early days. We’ll talk again in twenty years, hopefully.
Pop quiz: There are 53 nations in Africa, how many of these nations are at war?