Master Betty: I have been called bad before. Many have said I do things that are not correct to do. I don't believe in talk such as this. I am nice man, with happy feelings. All of the time.
Posted on 04/28/2008 1:34:12 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Concurrent with China's latest shipments of arms and munitions to Zimbabwe (see), two dozen uniformed and armed Chinese soldiers were seen patrolling the streets of the eastern border town of Mutare, with Zimbabwean troops, during a strike by Mugabe's political opposition. The Chinese Embassy denied that there were any Chinese troops in the area, but suggested that local Chinese-owned companies hired contractors to protect their interests. Over the last few years, thousands of Chinese have moved to Zimbabwe, where they have become active in retailing, manufacturing, mining and farming. They have a lot to protect and apparently have formed a militia.
Mugabe is running scared of open revolt, with the results of the March 29 joint parliamentary and presidential elections still unclear. The state-run Herald newspaper even suggested the best solution was to form a government of national unity, but Mugabe's political opposition went ahead with a planned nationwide strike to protest the increasing violence and force the release of the election results. Local church leaders issued warnings of impending ``genocide'' unless international intervention arrests the deteriorating political and security situation.
Beijing has a substantial investment in Zimbabe, including a $1.3 billion contract to open coal mines and three thermal power stations in the Zambezi valley (as well as unpaid debts dating back to the Congo Civil War that started in 1998).
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***Over the last few years, thousands of Chinese have moved to Zimbabwe, where they have become active in retailing, manufacturing, mining and farming. They have a lot to protect and apparently have formed a militia.***
Too bad the Indians who lived in Uganda under Idi Amin could not form “militias”.
Godfather III: “Your enemy gets strong on what you leave behind”.
The Chinese mean to have all the wealth of Africa, and if allowed they will take it the easy way.
De-colonization was a really stupid idea, done stupidly by nearly all the stupid powers of Europe. Subsequent history has shown that there is literally NO COUNTRY in the African continent that ought to be trusted with autonomy and self-determination. And given half the chance, all of their criminal element find their way back to the homelands of the colonizing power.
This should not be.
It is time to re-colonize and re-patriate. Sooner rather than later. And the quicker done the sooner mended. Before the Chinese take the whole lot.
Very un-pee-cee. If whites or a perceived as predominantly white nation does that they are racist. However, "yellow" is ok, no problem.
I think after a few years of Chinese domination, the Africans will beg the Europeans to recolonize. However by then the Chinese will have a foothold and will not allow any European countries to attack and interfere with their interests.
With the shortage of marriageable females in China, they have a demographic that would be very conducive to exporting lots of mercenary soldiers.
Yep, they will be there for the mineral resources.
Like the typical American you don’t know jack about anything or anywhere outside America. I bet you can’t name the president of neighboring Mexico or the prime minister of Canada.
Yet you have the cheek to assume that:
1. Africa is monolithic
2. China is colonizing a monolithic Africa.
3. Africa will sit back idly and allow itself to be colonized.
I am writing from Africa, and I can tell you that Africa is not the simple open and shut case of hunger, poverty, disease and AIDS that your news media (notice that almost all foreign correspondents at CNN, Fox News and ABC speak with English/Australian accents) bombards you with.
What is certain is that neither the Europeans nor the Africans had much success in solving the serious problems of Africa. The Europeans were in charge for at least 150 years and they didn’t move the literacy rate above 10 percent. Infant mortality was terrible under British rule (my father lost his mother during child birth) and famine was widespread (if the stories my father, my uncles and my grandmother tell me are to be believed). BBC didn’t report about African famines in 1936 - and they were many - because it would put the ‘Empire’ in very bad light.
The British only established ONE university in Nigeria (after 150 years). The super corrupt Nigerian leaders established more than forty in less than forty years. The British did not build a single mile of dual carriage express way (after 150 years). The super corrupt Nigerian leaders built several hundred miles of dual carriage expressway. The literacy rate under the British was less than 10 percent, under the super corrupt Nigerian leaders it is approaching 70%.
African leaders not much better, but I would not want to go back to the conditions under which my father went to school under British rule. He went to primary school barefoot, could not afford exercise books (he used a ‘slate’) and could not afford sandals until he went to high school.
Neither European nor African leaders have the basic competence to deal with the fundamental problems of Africa. The best hope for Africa is a careful management of the competition between India and China (and South Africa and Brazil to a lesser degree).
The combined economic and military might of Britain and America cannot provide electricity, sewage treatment and repair roads in little Iraq (a tribal society of 24 millions!). And you think you can do the same for a tribal society of 900 millions?
Re-colonization my a** !
You might want to get over yourself.
You have NO idea who or what I am, much less what I know.
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