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Angola is a case study in China investing billions and with the investment a large number of Chinese citizens arrive set up businesses there. Over time resentment against the Chinese has been building. Then a flashpoint with a massive jump in gas prices. Suddenly, anarchy erupts, and all the Chinese businesses are looted, some even killed in the violence.
China is now evacuating some of the 300,000+ Chinese citizens from the region, and the Chinese embassy is urgently warning people about the escalating crisis. More
Welcome to the world of fatigue Chinamen. Now you know the real reason colonialism didn’t work. Most Africans have zero interest nor even ability to rise up out of the stone age. The only way that continent makes it to the 21st century will be via brutal and highly prejudiced conquest.
Meanwhile, we do hundreds of billions of dollars in trade business with China. we set it up that way since the 90s. for about 5 years in the late 2000s I went back and forth helping to set up a factory with my previous company. their government may be communist, but their culture is all about business.
The countryside is a little backwards but their cities could pass for any in the west, modern with good infrastructure. for them to reach out and do business in Africa only makes sense. unlike America, who just wants to set up military bases everywhere.
I spent time in the military and I love my country, but we really should get our heads out of our asses.
” their government may be communist, but their culture is all about business”
Don’t kid yourself. Both are predatory.
LOL! Guess Angolans didn’t want to be a satellite communist province of China. Even shiftless black African populations realize China only wants their rich mineral resources and could care less about African people.
Sure, Angola will go back to a do nothing state, but at least they’ll have their pride with no beneficial progress. Which is the way the majority of black African nations want it.
I’m willing to bet that China will not succumb to the Sunk Cost fallacy, and that it will instead cut its losses and move away from the Angola tarbaby. I am also willing to bet that we will jump in, grab that tarbaby with both hands and commence a costly, ham-handed attempt at Regime Change which will make China’s bad experience look like a wildly successful venture.
Before we start smirking at China’s Angola misfortune, we should remember the collective West’s colonial Africa clusterfuck, and how that opened the door wide for Russia, China, BRICS, and BRI in Africa. We are on the outside, looking in. Hoping passively for our opponents and competitors in Africa—or anywhere—to fail is not a plan.
sad they didn’t SEE this coming, oops, sorry, chinese i know, too soon to joke?
you pay now!
I heard that the Angolans were particularly upset when they found out that an hour after cannibalizing a chinaman they were hungry again.
I spent a few years on the Sub-Saharan circuit. I came away cynical. While most of the people are nice, with an average IQ of less than 75, they are not capable of operating at modern-world levels. Those that are intelligent migrate out or exploit their fellow Africans, hence the levels of corruption in most countries.
An internal study sadly noted that Sub-Saharan Africa is at risk of becoming a cluster of “museum cultures” that are destine to lag continuously further behind he rest of the world until they are relegated to the purview of Anthropology majors.
A quick look at the Air Forces of Sub-Saharan Africa shows that no country has the ability to maintain let alone fly modern military aircraft. Think about that before you board a flight anywhere on the continent.