Big Problems Erupt in Angola - Chinese Citizens Flee as Anger Erupts Due to Belt and Road Consequences - The Last Refuge
HatTip to Ben for calling attention to this remarkable story. Essentially China’s “Belt and Road” initiative is a system of China putting massive infrastructure investment funds into a targeted country in exchange for their ability to extract resources nee...
Sound like 19th century European colonialism wearing a coolie hat
As Chairman Mao himself said "It is cheaper to buy a president than a country".
This is the Full Story, and very good read:
China Under Fire: Angola Riots Trigger Mass Exodus and Factory Closures
Chinese Ghost City in Angola Africa
u/purkiss80 You're neck of the world ain't it?
Yes, but it is bit like saying that Florida is in Maine territory if you measure to the approximate centre of all areas.
African Rule 1: Africa is always bigger than you think!
I got ya, took a while to realize you are referring to my, "neck of the world" comment.
Yes, sorry, clarity is not a speciality. I know what I mean!!
I have known about the Mercator map issue for a good while, how it distorts the size of Africa, makes it look same size as Greenland while it's actually 14 times larger. https://equal-earth.com/index.html
u/purkiss80
I think that Luanda has the only international airport in Angola. It is about 2500km from Johannesburg where the closest sizeable South African international airport is. Quite a distance from purkiss to this upset.
Yes.... I'm not to sure what's happening there....
Blacks in Africa can be hard workers. That is the trait that made them valuable as slaves. What is going on in Angola is as the article describes: a play by China to exploit the natural resources of a country that is vulnerable to "deals", seeming freebies, and environmental indifference.
There is something the article is not mentioning, however. I speak here from some observation of how it is proceeding in Zambia. There is a strategy of outright colonization, where their surplus of young unmarried Chinese are placed in a foreign country to settle, marry, and have a family. More and more and more. And the Chinese have a tendency to stick to their own society, and not really assimilate into the native country. This engenders irritation. As this goes on, and the influx continues, it drives a nation closer to the Crisis of Fiji. What is that? Fiji is an archipelago in Melanesia, long inhabited by indigenous people. But, through British colonization and the import of laborers from India, there developed an Indo-Fijian element in the population that is presently at about 38% of the nation. This has political ramifications, as a foreign influx is within reach of assuming political supremacy. The same thing could be true of Chinese settlers working in concert to systematically "capture" an African nation's government. Keep in mind that African countries tend to have a multiplicity of political parties (they haven't figured out that it is a failing strategy) and that, to obtain political control, it is not necessary to attain the majority. It is only necessary to attain the largest minority.
It's All So Tiresome