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GooseHandsClarence t1_iua5v1m wrote

Reply to comment by Fraun_Pollen in Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century. by filosoful

I visited friends in the peace corps stationed in Cameroon and Uganda respectively. The Chinese are EVERYWHERE. Building roads and infrastructure all over the place and offering it "on loan" that they'll use to basically hamstring the countries to do as they please. China is going to own Africa.

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Dantheking94 t1_iua7igo wrote

Yeh but those countries don’t care if they don’t pay those loans back. China had already started forgiving some of those loans. so it’s doubtful they’ll be allowed to use it to hamstring anyone.

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brendonmilligan t1_iuag1h8 wrote

Just because China is playing nice currently, doesn’t mean they’ll not expect a return on investment.

European traders were relatively peaceful when they started trading with African nations. That didn’t exactly last long

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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iucnlpg wrote

The return on investment is having those African nations allied with itself. Simply having them as allies and aiding them to become even more valuable trading partners is the return. Overall china has no incentive to exploit Africa simply because they are not beholden to profit driven corps.

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cyrathil t1_iucy3of wrote

They are the profit driven corp masquerading as a state.

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Southern-Trip-1102 t1_iue4pro wrote

How so? Numerous of their economic policies point opposite to them being profit driven, such as poverty alleviation, hsr, protectionist trade policies, etc.

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