Africa’s Last, Worst Hope - A continent that withstood European colonialism welcomes Chinese...

The American Conservative ^ | December 01, 2008 | Peter Hitchens

[ken21]

i’m reading “the vertigo years, europe , 1900-1914” by philipp blom.

on page 100 is a photo of a black man on a veranda staring hat the hands of his 5 year old daughter.

her hands were severed for not bringing back enough rubber.

king leopold of the belgians made millions from this forced slavery.

some americans and british exposed these crimes to the world.

[Lurker]

"In China, 50 people are nothing."

That about sums it up.

In China, people are nothing.

L

[factoryrat]

I think that the Chinese will find out that tribal-feudalism and draconian communism don’t mix so well. The Africans will protect their home turf to the exclusion of foreign interlopers. The Chinese will be a means to the end for them.

[VigilantAmerican]

This Peter Hitchens is a phenomenal writer.

Africans are phenomenally pathological failures.

The Chinese are phenomenally practical in their approach to the dark continent, and it may be a perfect match—the Chinese don’t appear to suffer from pangs of compunction about exploiting an inferior sub-species.

[gourmand]

"Africa’s Last, Worst Hope - A continent that withstood European colonialism welcomes Chinese..."

"Africa’s Only Remaining Hope - A POS, turd-world, incontinent hell-hole, which prays for the return of the comparatively-benevolent European colonialism saviours, and voluminously-spits at the murderous Chinese trash/junk/garbage/crap/filth/scum overlords."

There; fixed the title.

[volslover]

China is all over the place in Africa, especially in the hot beds of conflict. Africa provides cheaper labor than the Chinese and also has very few regulations in place for food and products. China is also on the security council so they can back up if they chose to do so for any of the African despots

[gogogodzilla]

Ehh, it seems that Africa didn’t like European colonialism, nor American aid.

So if they turn to China, and all the baggage that brings, well...

...they had (and still have) a choice.

Live with it.

[Fee]

Before we lecture the chinese about exploiting cheap black labor, US corporations exploited cheap chinese labor at the expense of the US worker.

[volslover]

Fee wrote: “Before we lecture the chinese about exploiting cheap black labor, US corporations exploited cheap chinese labor at the expense of the US worker.”

I am not lecturing the Chinese on anything. And yes, the USA corporations have exploited people for hundreds of years of all ethnic backgrounds such as they do with illegal alien labor by saying Americans won’t work so rather than comply with the immigrations laws, they create a fiction to hire illegal aliens to save themselves money.
But the Chinese are here in Africa right now all over the place and are becoming part of the emerging markets here in Africa. I don’t think they are doing it out of the kindness of the heart. I think they are doing it to make money. This way they also get access to the Congo region with its resources and cheap labor and Africa in return gets modernization and an economy going of some kind that is based on more than handouts and they get a friend on the security council

[Travis McGee]

In 100 years, there will be more Chinese than Africans in Africa.

[rbg81]

Honestly, if they can make Africa work, more power to ‘em. Better they pour their treasure and energy down that rat hold than us. In the end, I think they’ll tire of the corruption and misery and leave.

[BnBlFlag]

“In 100 years there will be more Chinese than Africans in Africa”.
And those will probably be enslaved. How ironic.

[MimirsWell]

hey chicom, quit talking about days being mentioned wrongly in a terror article on mumbai and start talking about how you and your countrymen are ravaging another part of the world.

I assume you’re Buddhist (even a fake one)...the sins of your countrymen are filling up a pot that will sink - taking down you lot into the abyss..and that day is not far.

[American in Israel]

Africa is on a hopeless course. Not having found an environment that embraces the deep political corruption they desire in the West, they embrace the East, a culture that kills it's own. The future of Africa is well known and quite grim:

Rev 6:8 I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

I believe that this is telling of the demise of Africa. It will follow a world wide depression that borders on famine, and The Anti-Christ and his Prophet will come with it. It is the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse. The Famine is the third.

Truly interesting times we live in.

[Cacique]

btt

[Joe Boucher]

If Africa and the world thought the European colonial time in Africa was harsh, just wait til ya all see how the chi-com thugs treat the africans.

[aruanan]

Africa’s Last, Worst Hope - A continent that withstood European colonialism welcomes Chinese..

It didn't withstand European colonization. It was being transformed by European colonization. That transformation was stopped by the various Marxist groups fomenting rebellion against the colonial powers. The colonial powers gave up too quickly and too easily. They doomed millions of Africans to poverty and Marxist bestiality. On top of that, another Marxist tool helped to grind Africa even farther into the dirt by banning the use of DDT. Now another group of communists are coming in to finish the job.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem. China also has a large workforce (oil and whatnot) in Sudan. Goodnight all.

[Clive]

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