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Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by naijaracist(m): 9:55pm On Dec 05, 2015
Beijing has long supported Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe despite claims of rampant corruption and repression committed by his government. Today (Dec. 4), Mugabe returned the favor.

Speaking after Chinese president Xi Jinping at the China-Africa summit underway in Johannesburg, Mugabe countered the notion that China is a neocolonialist that is draining Africa of its natural resources:

“Here is a man representing a country once called poor, a country which was never our colonizer. He is doing to us what we expected those who colonized us yesterday to do… We will say he is a God-sent person.”

Mugabe is referring to the wave of Chinese infrastructure projects and loans given out across the continent over the past decade. Critics say these projects have done little to develop local economies and that China is exploiting the region while ignoring conflict human rights abuses.

Zimbabwe, a former British colony whose economy has struggled under Mugabe, has been home to Chinese infrastructure projects for decades now. In the 1980s, China built the country’s National Sports Stadium, its largest shopping mall, as well as hospitals and power stations. China is also the largest buyer of Zimbabwean tobacco.

Xi visited Zimbabwe earlier this week, and the two countries pledged to stimulate Zimbabwe’s struggling economy. China promised to building a new parliament for the government. “Our detractors have sought to portray our relationship [as] purely commercials ties, driven by China’s desire to extract our mineral resources,” Mugabe said. “Our relations go much deeper.”

Source:http://qz.com/565819/chinas-xi-jinping-pledges-60-billion-to-help-africa-solve-its-problems-its-own-way/

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Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by naijaracist(m): 9:56pm On Dec 05, 2015

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Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by Horus(m): 9:58pm On Dec 05, 2015
Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by Joshmon(m): 10:00pm On Dec 05, 2015
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Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by naijaracist(m): 10:05pm On Dec 05, 2015
Other's are good in bringing terrorism in africa

Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by gohzieh(m): 10:06pm On Dec 05, 2015
nice one there

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Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by saint047(m): 10:10pm On Dec 05, 2015
Apartheid was "legal" Slavery was "legal" Colonialism was "legal"
Legality is a construct of the powerful
Not of justice
Re: Robert Mugabe:china Is Doing Everything That Africa’s Colonizers Should Have Don by theDEVILisHERE: 10:12pm On Dec 05, 2015
naijaracist:
Beijing has long supported Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe despite claims of rampant corruption and repression committed by his government. Today (Dec. 4), Mugabe returned the favor.

Speaking after Chinese president Xi Jinping at the China-Africa summit underway in Johannesburg, Mugabe countered the notion that China is a neocolonialist that is draining Africa of its natural resources:

“Here is a man representing a country once called poor, a country which was never our colonizer. He is doing to us what we expected those who colonized us yesterday to do… We will say he is a God-sent person.”

Mugabe is referring to the wave of Chinese infrastructure projects and loans given out across the continent over the past decade. Critics say these projects have done little to develop local economies and that China is exploiting the region while ignoring conflict human rights abuses.

Zimbabwe, a former British colony whose economy has struggled under Mugabe, has been home to Chinese infrastructure projects for decades now. In the 1980s, China built the country’s National Sports Stadium, its largest shopping mall, as well as hospitals and power stations. China is also the largest buyer of Zimbabwean tobacco.

Xi visited Zimbabwe earlier this week, and the two countries pledged to stimulate Zimbabwe’s struggling economy. China promised to building a new parliament for the government. “Our detractors have sought to portray our relationship [as] purely commercials ties, driven by China’s desire to extract our mineral resources,” Mugabe said. “Our relations go much deeper.”

Source:http://qz.com/565819/chinas-xi-jinping-pledges-60-billion-to-help-africa-solve-its-problems-its-own-way/

He is wrong

Rather
China is doing what idiotic, stuppid and hopless so called African leaders like him are not and can not do

Imperialistic colonial masters only did what evil mischievious people do
Which is
Take advantage-of and destroy gulible, idoitic, stuppid and hopless people

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