So what if the Chinese have military bases in Africa, with the one in Djibouti being the first of many? The US has one base in Djibouti as well, and has Guam in the Indian Ocean!
So what if the Chinese continue to sell their wares to Africa, which is seen as a key future and growth market for China? The US has more than enough Americans to sell to.
So what if the Chinese are moving towards increased Great Power Conflict, with the resources in Africa being a key aim for them as part of the stratagems they are currently implementing (with the greatest example of soft power ever across the continent). American doesn’t need to counter that at all!! After all, there’s nothing but beetle-dung in Africa as another FReeper so sagely said sometime back.
Yes, I know Trump’s Administration has implemented some of the most significant (and sizeable) pushes to have closer ties with Africa, and he has done more than even Obama and President Bush combined. Sure, that is because of one reason - China - but what does President Trump know! Or for that matter, countries like Britain and France that are rapidly trying to do the same. Just idiots the bunch of them.
Yes, I know there is claim that Africa has the world’s fastest growing middle class, but they also have Ebola and Marasmus. Let’s leave all of that to the Chinese.
And as for development - there are only mud huts in Africa. Not a single stone building for thousands of miles. For example, have a look at this picture of Nairobi in Kenya! Disgusting how they only have huts and pot-bellies children herding skinny goats!!!!
Nairobi’s dilapidated mud hut villages
Let China have the whole damn continent!!!! At least we have Guam.
Great response. A helpful answer. Let China have those ongoing headaches of working with aka being responsible for Africa.
But how am I ever going to get my money from Nigeria if we just leave it alone?
The Chinese are bringing in their own workers to do this, but unlike western do gooders, whose aim is not to disturb their culture but to keep them living their green lifestyle, aka in poverty, the Chinese are promoting a modern lifestyle... cellphones used to buy and sell, and used as banks, and now for classes in schools. The corrupt government might not keep the electricity on, but China will sell you a generator.
And unlike American kids, African kids study hard, for they see education as a way out of poverty.
The press shows a very biased picture of Africa and Asia. There are war zones, but such areas are not universal.
The corruption means the smartest and most ambitious folk leave for jobs overseas.
As for the slums...this is a world wide problem, as village folk move into cities. We white “ethnics” were in similar slums until recently, and I won't even go into the elite's hatred, of Hillbillies.