A part of me wants to weep for Africa, a Continent that holds so much and which has been repeatedly raped of its people and resources throughout most of history.
Many times the travesties have been facilitated by waring factions within Africa itself. One need only look at a list of African leaders (after the European countries left) in the 20th and 21st centuries to see a who’s who’s of dictators and strong men of infamy.
We hear about the Somalian pirates but nothing about how European countries are dumping nuclear waste into Somalian waters or illegally over fishing and depleting their coastal waters and starving the populace because of these practices.
It has been recently reported that The son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator of 30 years commissioned plans to build a super yacht costing $380 million, nearly three times what the country spends on health and education each year. The reports are
We have an impostor President, a Constitutional fraud, who has taken steps to weaken destroy our economy, weaken our military effectiveness abroad, weaken our space program,weaken our resolve in American exceptionalism.
While the Communist/Socialist/Progressives continue to beat the drum of American/European Imperialism barely a whisper has been spoken about Chinese Imperialism today in Africa by the MSM. This is dangerous. China holds much of our debt and China wants to surpass the United States on every front economic and militarily.
With all of this a a back drop we have Imperial China, whose growth is projected to be at 7% versus our negligible growth (by comparison) buying up companies in the U.S. and around the globe that will help support their military and economic expansionism. Whether it’s oil, raw materials, precious metals and minerals China’s avarice is massive indeed. All of this comes with a price, a price being paid by Africans today and quite possibly the United States tomorrow.
The following is from Peter Hitchens writing about how China has created a new slave empire in Africa:
It is my view…that China’s cynical new version of imperialism in Africa is a wicked enterprise.
China offers both rulers and the ruled in Africa the simple, squalid advantages of shameless exploitation.
For the governments, there are gargantuan loans, promises of new roads, railways, hospitals and schools – in return for giving Peking a free and tax-free run at Africa’s rich resources of oil, minerals and metals.
For the people, there are these wretched leavings, which, miserable as they are, must be better than the near-starvation they otherwise face.
Persuasive academics advised me before I set off on this journey that China’s scramble for Africa had much to be said for it. They pointed out China needs African markets for its goods, and has an interest in real economic advance in that broken continent.
For once, they argued, a foreign intervention in Africa might work precisely because it is so cynical and self-interested. They said Western aid, with all its conditions, did little to create real advances in Africa, laughing as they declared: ‘The only country that ever got rich through donations is the Vatican.’
Then there’s this from China eyes Africa.
At the start of the meeting, Beijing unveiled a glittering trade and aid plan designed to cement its “strategic partnership” with Africa. The key items in the package were raising the volume of trade from $40 billion in 2005 to $100 billion by 2010; doubling of 2006 assistance by 2009; provision of $3 billion worth of preferential loans and $2 billion worth of export credits; setting up a ChinaAfrica Development Fund that would be capitalized to the tune of $5 billion to support Chinese companies investing in Africa; and cancellation of all interest-free government loans owed to China by the heavily indebted and poorest African countries that matured at the end of 2005.
If not yet the biggest external player in Africa, China is certainly the most dynamic. It now accounts for 60 percent of oil exports from Sudan and 35 percent of those from Angola. Chinese firms mine copper in Zambia and Congo-Brazzaville, cobalt in the Congo, gold in South Africa and uranium in Zimbabwe.
Its (China’s) ecological footprint is massive, says Michelle ChanFishel of Friends of the Earth, consuming 46 percent of Gabon’s forest exports, 60 percent of timber exported from Equatorial Guinea and 11 percent of timber exports from Cameroon.
