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The World's Poorest Continent May Not Have Food, But It Is About To Have A Monorail
It is a well-known fact that the primary driver of China's hollow if scorching (and now slowing) growth over the past decade was an unprecedented surge in fixed investment - a surge so strong it has led to the proliferation of ghost cities across the mainland, and even the Beijing politburo is getting concerned that the epic overcapacity, which incidentally does not pay any cashflows even though it is funded by debt, will lead to an even more epic non-performing loan bust, hence the attempts to slow down Chinese "growth."
However, so far China has been unable to boost either consumption or its middle class to offset the capex expansion momentum, with the bulk of accumulated wealth going to the oligarchy at the very top of social strata (which has been doing its patriotic duty of buying up real estate... in London and New York) while the poor get even poorer.
So what is China to do? Why continue spending tens of billions on fixed investment.... In Africa.
We have shown previously that when it comes to "frontier markets" nobody has been as successful at exploiting Africa, as China. It was in August 2012 when we first showed how China quietly took over Africa.
Since then, Chinese penetration in Africa has merely accelerated and appears to have culminated with the news that China will extend over $12 billion in "aid" to Africa.
Not only that, but very soon the world's most impoverished continent may not have food, but it will have... a monorail.
Reuters reports that Chinese Premier Li Keqiang unveiled extra aid for Africa totalling at least $12 billion on Monday, and offered to share advance technology with the continent to help with development of high-speed rail, state news agency Xinhua reported. Li pledged the additional funding in a speech at the Organisation of African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, which also doubles as one of the world's poorest countries.
So as the US increases its inventory of drones in such strategic places as Congo and the Central African republic, China will instead go the peaceful route and its increase credit lines to Africa by $10 billion and will boost the China-Africa Development Fund by $2 billion, bringing it to a total of $5 billion, Xinhua said. It provided no details of the timeframe.
And the piece de resistance: Li "depicted a dream that all African capitals are connected with high-speed rail, so as to boost pan-African communication and development," the report said. As China has advanced technologies in this area, Li said China was ready to work with Africa "to make this dream come true".
Because all the up and coming generation of debt slaves to the world's most capitalist country now needs is not food, but fast train connections.
It is Li's first visit to Africa since he became premier last year, and follows on from a trip to the continent by President Xi Jinping in March 2013, when he renewed an offer of $20 billion in loans to Africa between 2013 and 2015.
It was unclear if the aid announced by Li is already included in that figure or if this is new funding.
Chinese officials said last week that Li's trip, which also takes in oil-rich Nigeria and Angola, would not simply be for energy deals and Beijing will be seeking to help boost African living standards.
Some see right through this attempt by China to kill two birds with one stone - to find a new place where to allocate "fixed investment", and in the process, to soak up as much natural resources as possible before the restless natives pull a South African gold mine and go on strike:
Trips by Chinese leaders to Africa are often marked by big natural resource deals, triggering criticism from some quarters that China is only interested in the continent's mineral and energy wealth. Africans broadly see China as a healthy counterbalance to Western influence but, as ties mature, there are growing calls from policymakers and economists for more balanced trade relations.
Too late. The Second Berlin Conference took place years ago and Africa has already been divided: sadly for the US, it is China that is now in control of this resource-rich continent, which may not have enough food for everyone but at least it is about to have a monorail.
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A monorail on Antarctica?
A high speed monorail through Ethiopia, Sudan, etc., where vendors will hawk delicious mud pies at each stop.
Matches the mud hut.
and various child armies, lawless warlords and of course CIA representative terrorists could polish their aim skills on with the likes of TOW and Stringer missiles.
Yeah, but try to keep them from stealing the rails.
That's why it's a MONO-rail.
But I think the U.S. should do one better and build one across Greenland.
Or Detroit for that matter. Same uselessness
Mr. Li should’ve offered them a few million Pogo Sticks instead. Is it racisss? ;-)
Looney
Gotta be a joke. Just read about the 300 or so girls kidnapped to be sold into slavery. How charming.
Africa has always been a shithole and always will be one.
pods
Why, exactly, do you imagine that it is so awful? Couldn't have had anything to do with Western imperialism, could it?
The west has always had a hand in how bad Africa is. Same as SA.
You cannot remove responsibility of how bad off Africa is from Africans though.
If it was the West's influence entirely, where was the last incident of 300 girls being kidnapped from a school to be sold and married off? If the west is responsible for this surely it comes out of our culture?
pods
guys, Africans were enslaving Africans a long time ago and if it had anything to do with the "West," it was merely somewhere to sell them to.
and which "West" are you talking about?
How about beginnig with Europe? The Dutch, the Brits, the Spanish, Italians and the French were in Africa long before the western hemisphere was exploited.... by them.
BTW: Cecil Rhodes tries the railroad thing and failed.
You've got it backwards
New World was settled and colonized from the 1500s through the early 1800s, when the process of white-ification was essentially completed.
Africa was still an unexplored, unknown continent to Europeans as late as the 1860s. Major battles of colonization were still happening in the late 1800s, the kind of battles that the Spaniards already fought in Mexico/Peru 300 years previously. Europeans were in black Africa as conquerors for much shorter, much later, and with a much lighter touch than in the western hemisphere.
thanks for the heads-up in a polite and adult manner
However, I'm not entirely backwards on this.
Again, which "West" are people talking about? Did anybody from the western hemisphere get involved in Africa very much before 1900? Why are people so timid when it comes to pointing a finger at Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonisation_of_Africa
Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers.
The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization—including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets—spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic.
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-colonization-of-africa.html
there's more (the internet is a wonderful thing)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+colonized+africa&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=who+...
.....RACISSSSS!!!!!!!!......
Seriously, the African are still enslaving each other. F*ck em.
Yeah, keepin the peoples down an shit.
And here when they were just getting ready to break out and turn de continent aroun!
The "West" was still the best thing that ever happened to Africa. The West's worst failures in Africa are still a shining beacon of sunshine when compared to their own thugs.
Same as Chinese or Indian slave labor and Chinese or Indian slave trade, human trafficking. It's in their culture, their blood to exploit their fellow man.
I'm sick and tired of reading about "Western" imperialism. What a crock of shit
When the Colonialists ran out of gas, it was the setting of those artificial borders, regardless of history and tribal tradition, that has done so much damage. Why the dumb asses don't sit down and re-set things in a rational way would help stop a lot of killing.
Then, if the world would stop swooning every time the Africans dragged out big eyed children with rice belly to extort aid, some progress might get made. Africa has treated the infrastructure left to them just like Coleman Young did in Detroit.
FORWARD THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION!
What's the point of that straw man? Did anyone remotely suggest that the West was responsible for all of Africa's problems?
The point is that whenever something terrible in Africa happens, the immediate reaction is to blame The West for their exploits.
True you didn't say the west was solely responsible for all of Africa's problems, but you sure intimated that it was the cause, with the snarky sarcasm for emphasis.
You asked me why I imagined it to be so awful, so I gave you a current example, and asked you to show me where this was rooted in Western culture or even remotely Western.
Not seeing how that is a strawman Tinky? Simple question and answer, especially since I had already said why it was a shithole with my original example which you replied to.
pods
It was a shithole long before the first European showed up. Who the fuck do you think sold them the slaves in the first place?
The ignorance displayed on this sub-thread is breathtaking.
Your ignorance in imagining, per your post, that "Western Imperialism" is responsible for the shithole in being that is Africa, when the actual problem is IQ 75, average, and a primitive tribal mentality, and huge overpopulation; is not exactly breathtaking, but it does show that you've succumbed passively to the liberal propaganda barage about "negro equality".
As someone who grew up in an African country that is 80%+ black and lived it day in day out for the better part of 2 decades, I can attest to everything you've stated in your post.
erm...I call bulsh*t.
The average IQ is actually 70 in sub Saharan Africa. Get your facts right.
The dark continent. I don't mean the skin color either.
It's a shithole with oil.
Nothing else matters.
Oh goodness, the chuckles in this time of madness will never end it seems.
Next up, a chain of ice-cream stands in the Kalahari....
Bangalore is testement to the sheer ugliness of mis-applied technology with it's own elevated train....ugly, just stabben onto the city with minimal planning....took them 10 years to lay 4 kilometers.
Hardly any use to any one at all.
But they hold drum jams at the rail stations (all two of them)....
ori
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/whither-india/
I wonder how much the US taxpayer will have to pay for this boondoggle?
That would make more sense. Billions on a monorail in Africa. The world is insane.
Ebola Express!
I would peg it the A.I.D.S. mobile but yours has a nice ring to it as well.
Either way, I have a co worker who came back from angola to report chinese everywhere. Say what one will but their numerous projects seem alot less predatory and parastitic than the ones the round eyes tend to prosecute.
for now, yes. I'll be impressed when I see asians actually hiring any other race other than more asians.
Africa is still very tribal, I wonder how the "Thank you for selling your resources to us and working all the shit jobs to rebuild, now get out." is going to fly?
Didn't the Chinese build the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century? History rhymes!
Yes, but in this case it will be the Africans doing the actual building. I think that's the point.
What makes you think the locals will be used to build railroads? Maybe some initial land-clearing, but I suspect a large amount of the actual construction will be Chinese labour.
If America and China really are now about the same size economies, and America spends, what, $500 billion per year on the MIC? I think China spending even $100 billion per year on infrastructure in Africa, no matter how wasteful, is resources better allocated then missles and drones blowing up weddings and funerals.
I'm glad you like it since it's your money; extracted from your country by Bill Clinton by the "most favored nation" trade status act he signed that gave all our jobs and money to China in order to increase the profits of the corporations.
And what will the "natives" be doing then? If they are not brought into the economy, it doesn't work, period.
Lots of low level labour jobs; forestry, roads, farming, mining, building housing and other facilities for themselves. Not anything mission critical, like building mag-lev elevated rails, operating heavy machinery, etc.
And the Chinese collecting the fares; the rest of the point. they make good Capitalists. Excellent, actually.
I wonder if they will become cow-coms while settling their own West???
What you miss is this.
China had a "society", a "community", a "culture"; 3,000 years ago, when Europeans were still running around in animal skins with their bollox hanging out, wode tattoos by the dozen, chucking spears at one another.
At that point, Modern America was non-existent.
So who do you think will win out in this Battle of the Cultures?
The wheels of history grind slowly, but awfully fine...
China will probably do what it did each time it was on the cusp of being a world power, and collapse into warring states. There is evidence the Chinese reached the West Coast of North America and traded with the natives before Columbus made it to the Caribbean. Then they decided to just splinter apart and spend all their time fighting each other, luckily for us.
Current cultures are as different as night and day, they have little in common with their ancestors and know LESS of their history.
Maybe the Chinese are scoping out another bathtub as they seem to have pissed in theirs and dead pigs seem to keep showing up.
pods
If you believe in any kind of Darwinian model of the world - the best adapted/strongest ultimately prosper at the expense of the weak - then what you're proposing should be inevitable. Africans are incapable of competing with anyone in that sense, sooner or later some foreigner will do to them what Westerners did in the New World...wholesale takeover, settling in, obliteration of the natives.
Unlike American Indians though Africa has one thing going for it in the competitive sense, and that's sky-high reproduction rates. At current rates the population of black Africa doubles every thirty years or so, and there are already 1+ billion of them. Wrap your head around that kind of compound growth.
"Africa has one thing going for it in the competitive sense, and that's sky-high reproduction rates." - and aids, don't forget the aids, and Malaria, Tetse flies, sleeping sickness, ebola etc etc.
No one else can live in half the hell hole other than Africans due to their superior immune systems.
Yup
Chinese are building in Angola what Chinese are good at building best
GHOST TOWNS
Naw, 20 million Chinese men need wives. Why not set them up with lifelong employment building a monorail project, get them maried to a local girl, and set them up with a mortgage and a house, and enough credit so they never get out of debt?
Liberal dreamer. Chinese won't marry black women just to preserve their people.
Not right off the bat, sitting at home in mainland China. Send them to Africa, 20 million men, no women, and I bet within 5 years, you'll have 7 out of 10 married to locals, 2 gay and 1 celibate.
Never gonna happen. The age of malinvestment is coming to a close.
Unfortunately, dreamers can spout irrational longer than you can articulate common sense.
Motherfuckers. It will be just like Busch Gardens, Tampa.
Well, without the beer garden anyway...
That's going to Smell awful.
Like wet sheep and oranges, with a slight menthol tang.
Can't wait to ride the train from Swaziland to Mozambique. Does anyone know if refreshments are offered?
Refreshments fit for human consumption or feed for your goat?
Chickens and goats shall heretofore travel in style!
Cause speed ain't nuttin without style!!!
Does the definition of 'poor' include the amount of debt that each citizen owes? If so, North America may be the poorest continent, with Europe and Japan right behind.
Africans are poor. Africa is rich. So much untapped resources. So much room for more debt serfs.
All rail leads to #Badme!
Powered by Cheetaz on treadmillz, bitchez!
powered by Cheetos and grapedrank, maybe
Is it? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ligIq6o0rUU
Its about time Africa was raped and pillaged by someone other than the "white man"/ sarc
LOL. Yeah, it'll be nice to be able to blame the Chinese for a awhile. Make a little variety for the local excuse-makers.
Mono isn't the only disease that rail will be carrying.
Extra work for China and extra debt for Africa.
I can't wait for the escalator to the MOON!....
Anything to get off this fucking planet.
Here ya go!
http://www.mars-one.com/
The thought to apply for the one-way ticket has actually crossed my mind....
Get you ass to mahs!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91dW9pUA1BI
I'm sure they'll take good care of it..........
Maybe some of our shovel-ready jobs can be allocated to building some bridges for their hyenas.
The Caucasian nations of the world have always been chiefly interested in Africa for the purposes of colonizing, exploiting, keeping the population poor and the governments totalitarian and militant whilestealing whatever valuable resources they could. This is why all of those christian "charities" send so much food and medicine for the hungry babies, bankrupting the local farmers but doing nothing for infrastructure, for education, for development.
The chinese are showing themselves willing to relocate to Africa, they build roads, railroads, even monorails. They build schools, they build factories, they build dams, they teach, they live in the villages, the eat, sleep, dance, and marry with the local populace. They want to trade with them.
The west gets what it deserves....
by the way, this is old news ....
http://www.tigraionline.com/articles/article110318.html
"They build schools, they build factories, they build dams, they teach, they live in the villages, the eat, sleep, dance, and marry with the local populace."-
And caucasian people haven't been doing this? FAIL.
new world order, same old lies.
So that's where the term "Goobacks" comes from.
The "Caucasian nations?" lol
Wait til the Africans see how well off the Chinese are who come there. Sure as shit the machetes will come out and the cycle will repeat.
The West has been certainly to blame but you cannot absolve Africa for her problems.
pods
West?
depends who you refer to. Old England based on Victorian values and solid reactionary tenents built the place into a decent set of countries.
New America with progressive policies and leftist psychotic anti-racism turned the place into a charnal house. I recomend watching Affrica addio. Genius italian documentary of the decolonisation period. Just be warned there is genocide, murder and piles of chopped hands caught on camera. Go anti-racism!
Thanks for the video suggestion. Found it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8om8-DnVTU
note for reference - the makers of the documentary suffered the full ire of the "anti-racists" including being put on trail for murder for some of the later scenes (the anti-racist claimed they set the scenes up) they were aquited.
I could do with punching some anti-racists.
And don't get me started on South Africa.
I also recomend the following for anyone interested in more reactionary truth to combat the anti-racists and "liberal progresives" screwing the world a new hole.
http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.tw/
http://www.moreright.net/
http://westhunt.wordpress.com/
You need to cut down on the choom, it's screwing your mind up. The chinese are pillaging the continent - they don't give a crap about the locals.
Chinese run their own people as slaves. You think they're offering the treatment royale to the Blacks? Do you really know what Chinese think of black people? No, you don't. The term "Nigger" is a compliment in comparison.
Dude, you're really nuts.
Tibet cannot thank them enough... May the dalai lama haunt your and their every dream.
Dumb comment
White people brought africa into the modern world. literally every capital city, high rise building, airport, harbor, railroads, whatever, came about as a result of colonialism. most of continent's native people were living at levels of development ranging from hunter-gatherer to illiterate nomadic pastoralists, i.e. backwards-ass primitives.
What's telling about the quality of the people that live in Africa is that even with all the discriminiation/racism/whatever inflicted on them by the colonizers, colonialism was STILL a MASSIVE net gain for the continent because of the technologies brought there and capital invested into fixed infrastructure. Living standards in most of Africa have been DECLINING since the 1960s (when white people left for good).
It's pretty pathetic, when you think about it.
With any due apologies to Atlanta GA USA they could steal the MARTA acronym.
For bonus points, does anyone remember what the unofficial MARTA acronym expanded to? Hint: it was in poor taste and a tad "racist". It would "work" better in Afrcia.
Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta (MARTA).
Ride MARTA you'll be SMARTA!!!!!!
All you Atlanteans had best fall upon your knees and pray. If they get it wrong and spell out the acronym MovingAfricansRapidly-TO-Atlanta...
well, you think you got problems now. Just wait till the hutus and tutsis show up for the New Improved Freak Week. Now fortified with genuine Nigerians.
The Atlanta Braves figured it out, aren't they leaving for the suburbs lol.
James Brown will be pleased.
So devious China, so devious, directing all that excess capacity to develop things towards places that can seriously use development!
GHOST TOWNS in Angola
LOL!
When are the Chinese converting the bustling Freetown bazar into a shiny new empty strip mall with huge rents?
Debt For Africa!
We need a theme song and aid campaign. Give more debt to Africa!
First of all, you need to choose more attractive wording, like "Offering Africans Equality By Enabling Them To Enjoy The Same Leverage As Everyone Else." Leverage is good, right?
Black Pimpernel's Continent; with a yellow monorail riding into a red sunset.
Now we have the three colours of progress. All you need is to turn Islamic green into blue roquefort mouldy cheese and you are home for a great meal to feed a hard butted, empty bellied continent!
Remember to add some white yoghurt to curdle out the best from money invested to save the bees breeding golden honey.
Thats the way to save Africa from drones and CIA clones.
Don't make bones about white man's burdensome biddings. Like the Supreme's betrayal of First Amendment; something that would turn Jefferson in his grave; let alone GW.
Its all as hokum pokumsome as Pistorius's legend about demons in toilets and as one legged as Long John Silverado's fabulations, while pontificating on his Polly Magoo crutch in the stockade full of stolen african blood diamonds.
Thats the white european predatory legacy of Berlin Conference and France's casus belli of ottoman fan fantasmagory in Algerian scam of found and lost empire.
"So random African country, you have failed to make your interest payments on time for services rendered two years ago when we built your monorail. It doesn't matter that said monorail no longer operates properly, you still owe us 50 billion dollars. Would you like to offer up your mineral and oil rights as a gesture of good will to repay? See those nice men over there with the automatic weapons, they will help you sign off on this."
Call it, "Jurassic Africa." This time it's real...
The environmental impact statement will take 30 minutes from start to finish.
1: cow shit huts
2: cow shit monorails
3: profits
High speed passenger cars easily convert to high speed cargo carriers for nearly limitless suppy of material for papa song new line of rice bowl in chinese based franchises.
Great. The combination of dreadful Chinese build quality with dreadful African governance.
This can only end well...
F yeah, now we're talking! The indians can hit the hundreds of casualties when they do a train wreck, riding on top and clinging to the sides and such. They do it right, don't get me wrong, but what they're missing is VELOCITY.
But when this thing impacts on Addis Abbaba or Monrovia running about 250mph we're gonna set a new standard. The bar will go way up.
"They do it right, don't get me wrong, but what they're missing is VELOCITY."
LOL! There you go...
That was good LFMayor, made me laugh. Sometimes it's all we can do...what a world.
Oh, the imagery is too perfect!
A shiny new high-speed monorail, stuffed to the rafters with sweaty villagers, crates of live chickens, bicycles hung on exterior hooks. Overflow passengers up on top, a couple of hatchet-faced teenagers with AK47's in hand riding shotgun as 'security'...
Welcome to the modern world, all you Africans!
In green, black & blue uniforms!
Wearing sneakers...
Try 400 million of the homliest, dumbest & poorest Chinese males looking to be fruitful & multiply.
Looks like the Kenyan wrapped up a nice prezzie to his homeland compliments of the U.S. taxpayer!
Who is John Galt er... Elon Musk?
China politburo must own the monorail construction industry. They are just paying themselves from the "the peoples" pocket. Kinda like USA arms aid. Nothing like great big heaping gobs of corporate welfare. Seems to work with every political system on the planet.
Loved this part
Considering they've stolen most of the tech from Japan and EU companies.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870481420457550735322...
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/04/15/china-japan/
I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think they're all insane. But I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. - John Lennon
Bsed on my reading of "Creature From Jekyll Island" the banksters MUST increase their counterfeit "loan money" by more than the year before to enable them to stay afloat.
That they are proposing a monorail in Africa says volumes about things being in the end game.
"My guillotine is a kind of debt collector."
Pffft. Whatcha all crying about the europoors and Africa. Last time I checked they built railroads everywhere they went. They still use those in Africa. Same thing in Asia, though some parts of Asia have actually managed to modernize enough to build modern rails. China learned from the best and coats it in modern "progressive" western rhetoric. China is a good student.
The world's "poorest" continent has TOO MUCH food, hence the out-of-control population growth.
Exactly. But that's a curable problem.
self correcting even. They'll eat each other.
Wendigo sleeps in the mopane thicket. Or somethin
The Simpson's Monorail Song
Bil Gates wants to "save" .5 million African children a year from Malaria; gee, Bill, can they all come live at your house?
Reducing infant and childhood mortality leads to people lowering their fertility rates. It actually works in the real world. Bangladesh is down to ~2.5 children per woman. Seemingly paradoxically, by saving more children, you prevent more children from being born, and thus population will eventually level out instead of continuing to climb exponentially.
Paradox...unintended consequences...you mean like how by subsidizing debt and guaranteeing mortgages, you inflate a housing bubble that, when it pops, actually decreases the homeownership rate?
Do I win a prize, professor?!?
i bet it will be a thrill to ride atop one of the cars while speeding down the track at 150mph.
Living in Africa, I can tell you that the number one reason for food shortages is the lack of transportation. Africa can produce enough food to feed the world. But it rots in the field, for lack of transport.
That being said, a canal system to connect the rift valley lakes with the sea would make a lot more sense than monorails.
That's not just an African problem.
Either way, monorail isn't going to solve it.
p.s. Sometimes it's not all about transportation. Zimbabwe had a brush with famine in the early 2000s because they drove out/killed all the white people, who were the ones who did the farming. The blacks of that whole part of the continent have no cultural background or experience in large-scale high-production agriculture.
If it just rots in the field, why does anyone grow it? It costs effort and money to produce crops. If the transportation problem is so obvious, why would farmers do that year after year? Of course it's a different matter if the problem is a glut due to good weather or some other intermittent factor.
Lack of choice. Imgine you are a subsistence farmer. All you have is a plot of land. There are few/no jobs, you have no skills outside of farming, and no assets. You are on the very edge of just being able to keep your family fed, housed and clothed. You also have no access to knowing how much of crop X is being grown in your area, no idea of future prices, no access to credit. What do you do? Probably, keep growing the same things as always, since you cannot afford to take risks to grow something different.
Someone like Mugabe will tether opposition political party members on the front, then run them up an elephants ass a-la The Road Warrior.
How will the American regime stop China from helping Africa develop and utilize its own natural resources?
Drone attacks, CIA subversion, proxy wars, etc....
All sub contractors will provide proof of non-discrimination policies, insurance for domestic partners, gender neutral lavatories, correct?
The point being it would let the Chinese move around between their African properties.
So how about they build a monorail to Los Angeles and on to Detroit?
Angola and China are both "People's Republic"
Both have communist ties and trade going back to the age of Comecon
http://countrystudies.us/angola/111.htm
Foxcon Angola Division is probably already established. When Detroit is owned by the Chinese, the comrades from Angola can all come over and feel right at home. Maybe that is the Chinese grand plan. Outnumber the Whites with their own people and outnumber the Blacks with their long dating friends and comrades from Africa.
Who said Mao was a stupid man?
Monorail in Africa? It would be the worlds longest vulture perch.
At least no one discriminates black people in Africa
No, they discriminate against each other for shades of skin tone, tribe, village, religion, language. Don't worry, people will always find ways to seperate themselves into "us" and "them".
Dumb asses in this thread is astounding.
My guess is the Chinese are making it more livable for their own people. Last I heard there are 1 million Chinese in Africa. When the Chinese have a construction job their people go with it and most never leave. I heard they wanted to have 300 million of its people there. soon the whole world will be taken over by the creaping migration.
I think this will just make deadly diseases spread much faster now.
Step 1: build monorail
Step 2: use the monorail to spread smallpox
Step 3: develop uninhabited land
It's not a terrible plan. The one and only thing holding Africa back is widespread corruption and lawlessness. Mass trans to spread mass disease would fix that one particular issue.
Well at least it's always much better than the Americans got to offer http://lhvnews.com/en/news/7141/drone-attacks-cause-to-raise-violence-an...