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China's involvement in Africa raises questions about economic cooperation versus neocolonialism.

https://nairametrics.com/2024/08/25/nigerias-von-to-start-broadcasting-in-chinese-languages-dg/

Nigeria’s international broadcasting station, Voice of Nigeria (VON), plans to start broadcasting in Chinese languages, specifically Mandarin.

This was disclosed by the Director-General of VON, Malam Jibrin Ndace, on Saturday at a Southern African Development Community (SADC) event.

Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China.

Chinese people hate African people with a passion but love the African continent because of its mineral and natural resources which China hopes to plunder with impunity, using the leverage of white elephant construction projects and extortionate loans given out to African governments with the full expectation that those loans will NOT be refunded, thereby allowing the Chinese to legally GRAB African resources, since all Chinese loans call for asset seizure in the event of loan repayment defaults by African governments.

The recent seizure of several aircraft belonging to the Nigerian government that were parked in France is but a foretaste of even more drastic asset seizures faced by African countries right in their own territorial borders because they dared to default on Chinese loans.

It is the other way around, some African leaders are hell bent on surrendering Africa's sovereignty to China

Africa is the pawn in the power-play chess game between China and the US! China has the edge in that they’re prepared to close their eyes to any human rights violations and issues of kwarruption emanating from the African countries they seek to do business with! They also have the edge in that these African countries are quick to accept any conditionalities placed on the loans China gives!

Jakumo:
Chinese people hate African people with a passion but love the African continent because of its mineral and natural resources which China hopes to plunder with impunity, using the leverage of white elephant construction projects and extortionate loans given out to African governments with the full expectation that those loans will NOT be refunded, thereby allowing the Chinese to legally GRAB African resources, since all Chinese loans call for asset seizure in the even of loan repayment defaults by African governments.

I have been wanting to reply to some of your tirade against the Chinese and their investments in Africa, but never had the time. Thankfully, I do this time.

A reply to someone else with similar concerns:

Gerrard59:
You will accuse me of whataboutery, but the West has committed more heinous human atrocities in Africa than the Chinese will ever do. The precursor to the Holocaust was conducted in Namibia by the Germans, not the Chinese. What about the plundering of resources in the DRC and the dehumanisation of Congolese by Belgians? Congolese were shipped off to Brussels and placed in museums for then European children to see, most of whom are in their fifties and sixties today.


This is an East Asian culture, which I must say has been the backbone of their relentless economic success within a short period. From Japan to Taiwan, East Asians work very hard and tirelessly. Unsurprisingly, they have prospered not just economically, but academically as well as socially. As Africans, our sole interest should be to prosper at all odds and if it requires working long hours without rest, so be it. In this century, we have no business whatsoever with work-life balance or remote work or rest, the only thing we have is how to be prosperous. East Asians and now Southeast Asians have shown us that we can be prosperous by working tirelessly, saving and having delayed gratification. We don't have an option other than that. Or do you like poverty? You think Europeans, who plundered Africa anyway, did not work tirelessly as well? The fact that their children have a surfeit of holidays and preach work-life balance does not mean we, Africans, who are starting should copy them. We don't have that option. Building is always hard. We better build, or else our children will suffer for it. Time no dey again.

To show you a typical example of East Asian work ethic. Go search about the semiconductor factories TSMC announced to build in the US and Japan. The US project was announced before the one in Japan. However, the company (TSMC) encountered cultural differences in the US as they (Americans) could not work long hours as is done in Taiwan. The company had to fly in Taiwanese engineers (check the distance from Taipei to Arizona) to work on the construction. In fact, the CEO and founder of TSMC said the project will be delayed because of cultural issues, rather than funding. However, within that period, the company completed the project in Japan and as I write commenced the second plant in another part of the country. The project in the US which was slated to be completed in 2026 has been shifted to 2028. Meanwhile, the second plant in Japan is billed to be done in 2026. Apart from distance, cultural similarities between Taiwanese and Japanese were the reason why the Japanese project was completed even before schedule. Westerners who have worked with the Chinese have confessed that they cannot compete with East Asians in engineering, construction and manufacturing.

As Africans, we have to compete with the likes of India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Malaysia for FDI. Na this swegbe and siddon-look attitude we wan use compete with these people? The unemployment rate will be catastrophic. The effects will be televised!


The fault is entirely on the governments and indigenes in the area, not the Chinese. The Chinese are not working alone. Fellow Nigerians made it possible. If you have a loophole, expect outsiders to exploit it. That is basic human greed. No one is altruistic, not even one's parents. Human beings are selfish. You need to understand this. Nevertheless, the Chinese and to an extent Indians and Canadians (just one investment anyway) are the major investors in Nigeria's mining industry. Chinese mining companies have invested over $500 million into processing facilities across the country. I am not a Tinubu fan, but I must commend his mining minister - Dele Alake - who has been at the forefront of ensuring the mines are well mined and ores processed before eventual export.

The same Chinese are being attracted by Namibian, Zimbabwean and Indonesian governments to invest in mining and processing facilities. Chinese investors ARE THE ONLY WILLING investors who do this. Western investors are not interested in mining projects across the developing world, only the Chinese are. So, I ask, do you want jobs and prosperity or lovey-dovey? Please choose one.


That act is condemnable. The good thing is that the Chinese take corrections. To be honest, though, the Chinese like to keep to themselves. The good thing however is that compared to other groups of migrants, they don't seek to impose their cultural norms on others. It is why in countries/cities/counties with high Chinese immigration, the crime rates are low and social truancy is almost non-existent. Trust me, as much as the West don't like the Chinese because of economic competition, they prefer Chinese migrants considering how immigration issues are brewing there.


This is a lie that has gone too far. Let me write about Nigeria, we owe the most to China as a country. However, we owe less than 4% of our total debt to the Chinese. We owe the World Bank and IMF - Western-controlled institutions - more than we owe the Chinese.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/nigeria-owes-more-money-to-china-than-any-other-country-chart (subscription needed) However, https://archive.md/PqOfN (free-to-read) Bloomberg is a western media organisation.

For the likes of Zambia and Kenya, they misused their loans and unlike the IMF & World Bank, they called for restructuring with Chinese lenders, which they agreed to. The last time Ghana sought a loan from the IMF, the institution threatened that it must accept the LGTV laws. Uganda was denied loans by the World Bank for the same eligibility issue. Which do you prefer, a pen!s in your yansh or a loan to build a road to major economic zones? Also, the Chinese have reduced their construction projects in Kenya and invested in Southeast Asia.

The Chinese have NOT requested that Zambians or Kenyans speak Chinese before loans are restructured. Moreover, Rwandans can earn $500 per month as Chinese interpreters. I had a roommate then in NYSC who earned 250K per month as a Chinese interpreter in Kaduna. How many people do you know in Nigeria who earn a good living as German interpreters?

More can be read here: https://www.nairaland.com/7801886/multipolarism-versus-hegemonism-great-power

The recent seizure of several aircraft belonging to the Nigerian government that were parked in France is but a foretaste of even more drastic asset seizures faced by African countries right in their own territorial borders because they dared to default on Chinese loans.

How is it the Chinese investors' fault that the Ogun state government did not fulfil its part of the agreement? It is not like the investors called for the booting out of Ogun state or it has stopped other Chiense investors from opening factories across Sagamu and environs. It went to court in London to sue its case and won. Agreement is agreement.

I find it hilarious when so-diasporans in the West don't invest in their home countries but lampoon the Chinese and Indians who do. If you love Nigeria so much, why not invest and live in the country? Why castigate those who took the risks to do the same? You people are no different from rednecks in the West, but at least, those ones are in their countries.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Africa is the pawn in the power-play chess game between China and the US! China has the edge in that they’re prepared to close their eyes to any human rights violations and issues of kwarruption emanating from the African countries they seek to do business with! They also have the edge in that these African countries are quick to accept any conditionalities placed on the loans China gives!

It is why Africa(ns) should be good at negotiations to get the best. As I write, the US government has backed the construction of rail lines linking Zambia to Angola. However, this is because the Chinese revived rail lines they built in Tanzania during the '70s. Unlike the Chinese who have built processing facilities across Namibia and Zimbabwe, the US company involved in the Zambian mine - KuBold Metals - is not processing the ores in Zambia, but exporting raw materials to Europe, the US and Canada.

So, which is better, the one who exports raw materials or the one who processes it before export?

It's better Chinese colonise Nigerians


They'll scrape out jihadism and Christianity LGBTQ from existence in Nigeria and put the one true Buddhism




With Chinese colonising us , Nigeria will be anew


No more crapitalism, Say yes to Communism



If anybody doesn't go with the Chinese should be nuked off the earth

Glory to the CCP
Long live chairman mao!!