[The_Republican]

1 out of every 5th person in this world is Chinese.

So the shock isn’t that Angola now has a “Chinatown”, but why every other country doesn’t.

West is afraid of Dark Continent for most part it seems. Bad news for US coming out of Africa is considered much worse than for example bad news coming out of Iraq or Afghanistan. Death of 20 US soldiers was enough for Clinton to withdraw from Somalia, but no one is willing to withdraw from Iraq or Afghanistan.

Chinese would BENEFIT Africa in my view, just as they are good for INDONESIA and MALAYSIA among other ASEAN Nations.

All the leading businessmen and entrepreuners in those Countries are of Chinese Heritage. I don’t think Indonesians and Malaysians are worse off for it. They are one of the leading growth economies and that’s a good thing.

Africa has the HIGHEST population growth rate amongst all Continents. It would be hard for *any* race to out grow Africans. Especially not the “elites”, who tend to not want have babies anyway because it is so much more fun to do so many other things.

My freind from South Korea told me that within 2 decades, South Korea like Japan would have NEGATIVE population growth rate, and since none of those Countries encourage or accept immigrants, they would suffer the consequences.

Success in Capitalism seems to reduce people’s desire to have babies is my point.

We make up for it with having higher birth-rate than Europeans and obviously through immigration and that keeps us strong.

If Chinese do not take elitist and racist and dominant attitude towards Africans, then they could possibly co-exist and prosper in Africa. We may have a new people knows as Chafricans. Who knows?

However if they try to form a separate society, and treat Africans as inferiors, then they would be well advised to view on what is going on in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

JMO.

[G.Mason]

'I should expect that the African seaboard, now sparsely occupied by lazy, palavering savages, might in a few years be tenanted by industrious, order-loving Chinese, living either as a semidetached dependency of China, or else in perfect freedom under their own law.'

Hmmmm ... I realize this statement calls for a response, but I will leave it to those with a better knowledge of prose.

[PGR88]

I don’t really care that much. Let the Chinese go in there and invest - they can deal with the corruption, disease, rascim, claims of imperialism, etc...

[devere]

“And Why The West Should Be VERY Worried”

Why?

[Little Ray]

I don’t see a problem with this. Saddle the Chinese with Africa and see what they can make of it.
At least they’re not hampered by the West’s “delicate sensibilities.”

[AZLiberty]

At this point, Africa is in dire need of a fresh dose of “colonialism”. Since the world is squeamish about the Western version, I guess the Eastern version will have to do.

[FocusNexus]

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.”

[GOPologist]

Once China controls Africa, the Africans will wish that the Britishers were back.

[Nowhere Man]

I always believed that Africa was better under colonialism or at the very least, not ready for self rule when decolonization started around 1960 or so. Africa has a vast wealth of resources but it lacks the infrastructure and technical know-how how to get them. Africa also need a modern day Cecil Rhodes to be able to some up with the infrastructure needed along with the engineering. I have been flamed in other places with my views but I still stick to them.

However, reading about Red China expanding into Africa, I think our latter day Cecil Rhodes will most likely be a Chinaman. We must be very concerned here in the West, but in a way we did it to ourselves, the West left Africa, except for giving out money that does little or no good, and as the saying goes, "nature abhors a vacuum" so the Red Chinese move in.

Come to think of it, IIRC, the Chinese started to make small inroads into Africa as early as 1420 but the rulers then decided to turn inward soon after, I guess to them, it is unfinished business of the Celestial Kingdom.

[TigersEye]

ChiComs on the march ... ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!