For those who don’t know -— There are an estimated 22,000 Chinese nationals living in Zambia, operating 280 companies, mostly spread between Lusaka and the copperbelt in the north. Beijing owns about 44% of Zambia’s debt, which has led to fear among some Zambians that China has too much control over the country.
Zambia is a key partner for China along its coveted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a planned multitrillion-dollar infrastructure program that is intended to link China with more than 100 countries through railroad, shipping and energy projects.
The BRI plans to recreate the Silk Road, an old network of trading routes between the East and the West, by investing large sums of money into other countries to build such infrastructure projects.
Wow have I missed something!!!
What the heck has been happening between Zambia and China that I’ve completely missed!
I have to plead ignorance on this.
And many other things :)
But just this for now.
Africa.. China’s Afghanistan?
When will the Yellow Lives Matter riots begin?
>>Police said they were pretending to be potential customers. But the trio did not want to do business. Over the next 17 minutes, the CCTV footage shows, they beat two men and one woman to death in the courtyard, before dragging their bodies into the adjoining warehouse.
Hate crime?
Workplace related violence?
Robbery gone wrong?
I didn’t do it. :-P
Really weird for CNN to use that word ‘nationals’... Bad Chinese?
China is the predominant manufacturer and exporter of most of the high end electronic consumer goods that people need to lead a modern life. It is willing to carry a large amount of debt from these “evolving” economies. Those debts give the Chinese great power over these countries and they are willing to exercise that power. Those countries slowly but surely that their policies must be to the liking of the Chinese. The US is beginning to understand just how much influence the Chinese have on American policy and political matters.
Africans are especially vulnerable but they are also realizing the real price of all those consumer goods. Wars have been started over less. The Chinese will not be reluctant to his their expanded ocean going navy and army to protect their economic intrests.
Very interesting.
Chinese ChiCom media will probably not report this.
Well, I’ll be .... The Chicoms export Ccpvirus to us, and we export BLM to them. Ain’t globalism grand?