[Future Snake Eater]

I hear everyone in the military now prattling on about stopping the Chinese in Africa. Lots of friends keep trotting out that company line.

Another military solution in search of a problem.

The Chinese are their own worst enemy in Africa. They pour billions of dollars in infrastructure into these countries, promise all kinds of jobs and development in order to mine and drill, but what do these countries get?

Completely shoddy garbage roads and buildings that falls apart quickly and no jobs b/c the Chinese send their own people over to work on these projects.

There's very little benefit to letting the Chinese in and African country's leadership are getting tired of being used.

[firebrand]

Back in the 1960s the Africans threw the Chinese out. The joke was they used the wrong fork. But the world is completely changed now. Countries have to take the help they are offered.