Posted on 04/24/2021 5:52:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
China is pushing major advances in Africa’s energy sector. It will inevitably use the African fossil fuel sector as security for its own future energy needs. The geopolitical consequences could be serious.
Countries in Africa are in dire need of economic uplift for which a fossil-fuel supported energy sector is indispensable. In a world of growing opposition to fossil fuels, China has become Africa’s key fossil fuel enabler.
Africa Must Move Forward, and Fossil Fuels Are an Absolute Necessity
The African continent is at a critical phase of development. Decades of slow economic development are proving to be a major hurdle in tackling poverty, expanding access to basic utilities, and overall improvement of living standards.
To break free from this persistent lack of growth, Africa countries must adopt the tried and tested method of economic growth and industrialization used in Europe, North America, and Asia: a strong energy sector that aids a budding industrial economy.
Developed economies across the globe achieved phenomenal success during the 20th century by using fossil fuels to provide the energy required for the industries, households, and transportation.
But the anti-fossil fuel lobby threatens Africa’s ambitions. Even Africa’s primary funders, like the African Development Bank, have stopped funding fossil-fuel projects. This is a big blow to Africa’s ambitions to break free from centuries of poverty and the existing $50 billion per annum investment gap in Africa’s energy sector.
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If this is where they are headed, and I think they are, dams and a monster power plant on the Congo will be one of their first actions.
The Leftist West is pushing Africans into China’s arms.
Almost as if it was planned, amirite?
Europe is dying
The future is east of Suez.
European stupidity is killing America
Very few have or want to notice but China is the neo colonial master of Africa. The have bribed and bought off the leadership and overtly own mines, oil fields and agricultural lands.They also pay very high salaries for ex Western military people to staff the security apparatus.
The idea among liberals is, I’ve got mine. Everyone else can go screw themselves. Or, even better, everyone else should die because they’re breathing MY air.
The Chicoms are like Army ants crawling all over the world.
No, that is not true. As a matter of fact it is diametrically untrue
The liberal thought is we want yours. You owe us. Give us all you have, even after death
Capital gains are sinful. Your estate belongs to everyone
I defy every single person in Congress to sit down & make a list of all the items they use that come from fossil fuels.
Even their toothbrush is plastic-—from fossil fuels.
China has the long view. Our people worry about the next election or the quarterly report.
Does Bill Gates know about this?
Uarcorecht!!
Gee that’s great! And every chinese despot in the CCP will benefit, while the Africans will not.
Africa wins again
No surprise there. All empires of the past vanished sooner or later. Western countries which prospered due to first to industrialize no longer hold the monopoly. Manufacturing has moved to the east.
—”the CCP will benefit, while the Africans will not.”
A complicated relationship.
“Empire of Dust” an interesting documentary on the subject.
Very enjoyable, and I wish they had more background on the two protagonists.
Run time 1:17
Try it, you might like it.
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