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Originally Posted by PCALMike
So you're saying China deliberately tries to make its allies weak and poor and useless as a counterweight against its challengers. Is that really credible? You linked to a fake twitter account as your first source...
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Most of China's "allies" are already weak and poor. If you control the natural resources and/or infrastructure of another country, then you get quite a bit of power over the entire country. And if the Chinese were doing this just to help Africa, it seems like they would hire some Africans to work for them, instead of bringing their labor all the way from China.
It also doesn't seem like, if they were just being nice, that they would have bugged the African Union building they built in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Yet, microphones were found hidden in desks and walls, and all African Union computer network information was transmitted daily for over five years to servers in China.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/chinas-heavy-hand-africa
It looks like there's more to the story than just a case of sudden Chinese altruism.
Somali fishing rights given to Chinese.
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/...ights-to-china
https://midnimo.com/2018/12/13/somal...ts-in-somalia/
Uganda's airport being taken over by Chinese.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200907201182.html
They have also taken over Ugandan copper mines.
https://www.africa-uganda-business-t...rn-uganda.html
Kenyan seaport being taken over by Chinese.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...d-chinese-loan
https://www.africanstand.com/news/af...pMCSFLMKx6AJVY
Chinese control over South Africa's Eskom.
https://news360.co.za/chinese-bank-t...l-eskom-power/
https://sa-news.com/there-you-have-i...an-transpires/
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