“That is the unfortunate outcome,” Rewane said of Africa’s expected further shift toward China
Going to elaborate on that? No? Just “it’s bad.” No explanation? No elaboration? That all you have to say on the matter?
I’m so sick of these articles treating Africa as “stupid and backwards” as if the only reason they could ever want to trade with China is because of Asiatic trickery.
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yeah the framing on that is hilariously bad
Asiatic Trickery vs. Yakubian Tricknology.
*kung fu treachery
Was trying to check if I read this right. Apparently this person is indeed based in Nigeria and obviously I can’t comment on anything that is happening over there without first doing some research, but it seems like there are people who are living in Africa right now who are treating it as backwards
It wouldn’t be surprising that an economics professor who learns neoliberal economics would accept the neoliberal explanation for Africa’s lack of wealth, which is just “backwards savages with extra steps.”
But it’s kind of wild how they just quote a guy to get a soundbite that says “China bad for trading with Africa” no elaboration on that point, it is taken as a given, not a part of their argument, just
Fanon has some great insights into the colonized intellectual in “Wretched of the Earth”
Are they really “sending” countries into China’s hands so much as China has been in relationships with various African nations for decades? When the US deals with someone, they typically fuck them over as hard as they can and then coup them with rightwing terrorists after. When China deals with someone, they get low interest loans to build bridges and grow rice and tourism…but at what cost??
worst I’ve heard of is over-fishing from Chinese fishermen
The tariffs may damage US relations with those countries but China cant replace US as a trading partner because those countries need a market to export to and China cant fill that role becuase its a super exporter
My impression is that China’s strategy is to help countries develop and create domestic consumer markets. Domestic consumer market in China is also constantly growing. While China is an overall exporter, they are a country with 1.4b people, and it’s a big market for imports as well.
