Wow! While the West is asleep, the Chinese are colonizing Africa.
“With little fanfare, a staggering 750,000 Chinese have settled in Africa over the past decade. More are on the way.
The strategy has been carefully devised by officials in Beijing, where one expert has estimated that China will eventually need to send 300 million people to Africa to solve the problems of over-population and pollution.
The plans appear on track. Across Africa, the red flag of China is flying. Lucrative deals are being struck to buy its commodities - oil, platinum, gold and minerals. New embassies and air routes are opening up. The continent’s new Chinese elite can be seen everywhere, shopping at their own expensive boutiques, driving Mercedes and BMW limousines, sending their children to exclusive private schools.
The pot-holed roads are cluttered with Chinese buses, taking people to markets filled with cheap Chinese goods. More than a thousand miles of new Chinese railroads are crisscrossing the continent, carrying billions of tons of illegally-logged timber, diamonds and gold.”
Africa has demonstrated that they can do worse to themselves than would the Chinese.
Which is to say: China would be an improvement. Go for it. Just don’t ask for U.S. help unless you’ve shed blood or money for the U.S. (e.g. Ethiopia helping us in Somalia).
The only people who would stand in the way of the Chinese are the Afrikaners in South Africa. I don’t think they’ll allow the Chi-Coms to steal their factories and mines.
Africa is huge. 1000 miles of road wouldn't go far.
