Posted on 01/09/2008 8:13:27 PM PST by Flavius
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission will unveil plans in the coming months for a partnership between the European Union and China over Africa, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel said Wednesday.
Michel said he would present the partnership plans after his first official visit to China in March amid mounting concern in Europe about the Asian giant's growing influence in the resource-rich continent.
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So this is considered this time… surely appreciated by the Dark Continent.
It is fun to conceptualize another Colonial expansion, this time via Asian Market place.
Seems that Africa is the place to be when one seeks untapped raw materials, still a location to bargain for in guns and butter at once.
The comedic element is that if one dwells a bit on old History Channel footage, where due to inability to congeal its nation states into German empire.
Germans just a bit started that World War I because they where late on the lets party in Africa lands that other Euros where already dicing up.
Guess round 2,3, … is slowly winding its way, but off course no one cares, because its not strapped onto almost a hot blond on a gurney entering an hospital emergency room.
Aye, like the Eurocrats aren’t fully aware of the daily planes loads of Chinese businessmen brought in to Africa simply to find markets and extract labor and raw materials.
obviously they cant stop it, so they are cutting some kind of a deal
i imagine the guys behind the great wall are laughing
Amazing what the Euroweenies concocted after all the centuries they’ve been kicked in the rear.
OR, they are just preparing to bow down before their new masters: the Muslims or the Commies.
Either way, the Marshall Plan was a waste.
That's a subjective view depending in whether you were signing the checks on the front or the back. ;-)
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