Hillary Clinton Warns Africa Of 'New Colonialism' from China

LUSAKA, Zambia -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned Africa of a creeping "new colonialism" from foreign investors and governments interested only in extracting the continent's natural resources to enrich themselves and not the African people.
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[Microglia1]

At the end of Europe...the start of Africa and Asia.

[abdullahthebutcher]

@Microglia1 For sure for Greater China and India. We can be hopeful for Africa. One interesting data point is that Ghana's GNP was just discovered to be nearly four times higher than past estimates. There clearly is some progress being made. Thanks for posting.

[Microglia1]

@abdullahthebutcher One of the fundamental reasons that kept African nations back is the lack of public education, and this results in governments ruled by the few, who in turn must answer to Western corporations for money to maintain that government. Only a country with citizens creating jobs for themselves, which in turn finance the government, can any form of progress be made...or a strong centralized government (China/Russia) capable of financing work projects without foreign intervention.

[abdullahthebutcher]

@Microglia1 I would start with cultural inconsistency for reason Africa is behind today. Look at Cameroon. Half the country thinks their French and the other half think their English. It would be funny if it did not produce such horrible results. Thanks for all your posts.

[Isreal4realz]

it is indeed an insult to all Africans calling it "new colonialism". There is stark difference between coming into a land with guns and coming with business deals. Europeans enslaved and stole as much resource as they could while China becomes partners with African leaders and have deals with both sides agree to. This is NOT colonialism in any sense what so ever. Using false terms like this only mean the US is becoming very scared and paranoid.

[abdullahthebutcher]

@MasterRegal Africans must be responsible for creating jobs in Africa. No one will do that for them. For the same reason we can't blame the Koreans for opening a grocery store in Harlem and not hiring any local people. This situation is not simply about human rights. Human Rights are largely a tool of convenience. India has one of the worst records in the world for women's rights and safety. Do you hear any of their trading partners complaining loudly? Thanks for commenting.

[stephanpak]

There's a great lecture from Professor Deborah Brautigam on youtube, about dispelling the myths surrounding the nature of Chinese investment in Africa. There are some rough spots for sure, but when you look at the bottom line the relationship as a whole has been fairly productive. What I thought was particularly interesting was that the Chinese government was annually funding some 5500 scholarships to African students to study in Chinese universities.

[mymarkis666]

If real European colonialism was 1/4 what the Chinese are doing now, Africa would be a superpower right now. What a disrespectful bitch.

[MrMtumwa]

@willliu8944

true true. We got a mind of our own and won't dance the whyt man's tune anymore. Over 400yrs under their shadows and they assume we don't understand their hearts. China may not be perfect but they see blacks as a pple with functioning brains. US & Britain certainly don't.

I rest my case.

[MrMtumwa]

China has an approach to business the US cld learn from. They don't interfere in internal politics, they invest by exporting their trained human resources, tax-free deals with Africa and they built infrastructure and do not aim to ctrl yo religions.

And the US interest in Africa is to side-line China rather than to benefit us.

In Afghan US activated its billions -worth of a war machine for oil! China built 1 of the biggest refineries, 'donated' it to their gvt & buys @ international price. SEE?

[koko8091]

@ziongite and by then,you and ur kind will be gone.africans where the first in world,and when the world comes to an end,if it does happen we africans will be the one's to put off the light.

[Zhijing78]

@fabianramos777 3. Based on your fake fact, you conclusion is also "yeah you guessed it", China "WILL" blah blah......, still nice imagination.

4. "Chinese business people are very greedy." so give example or facts that Chinese businessman are greedy, and Western businessman are not greedy, or better.

5. Get some education, and think if you are an African, who do you prefer based on current development level. How to improve a civilization or modernize a poor country.

[Zhijing78]

@fabianramos777 Here is some of your very useful points:

1. "Fact is that China is going to exploit Africa" . anything "is going to" happen, is not a "fact"... English is not my first language, but i can understand it is a logic disorder.

2. " they are building a few things ", if you don't even know what Chinese has build in Africa, don't act you know, or don't make it sound not important / or too important either way.

[sosokjl]

@bboychi1 Dear bboychi1, I wont even be surprise that White colonialism put up signs saying "no dogs and africans allowed." You know what White colonialism put up when they invaded China during the Opium war and took Chinese land? They put up the sign "No dogs and China Man allowed." funny how White people have such a short memory and funny how other people still worship whites as some type of gods. These who worship whites are brainwash as hell.

[willliu8944]

Chinese are well aware of what's going on in this world starting from 500 years ago. The best way to deal with the words from the whitemens mouths is to ignore them.

[xmen9991000]

White people seem to feel they can not wash off the past havoc to not only African but most colored people. Instead of giving a real hand to lift Africa out of poverty on its own feet rather than guns supply or food in time needs, so they use dirty tactic of using colored against another colored people, but this is 21st century