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Magda Hassan Wrote:Chinese investment has been very welcome and has been a good experience and very beneficial over all. It doesn't come with the strings that US aid comes with. The African continent is littered with the carcases of US 'aid' and the debt that came in its wake and the privatization vultures that came after to pick off any thing left over. It is not like that with China. And China gets access to rare minerals and other resources that they need.
It seems to me, AFRICOM is there precisely for this "problem." You can't have a uni-polar world with things like this going on. Ant then there is the problem of NORTHCOM. It's all about full spectrum dominance.
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Lauren Johnson Wrote:Magda Hassan Wrote:Chinese investment has been very welcome and has been a good experience and very beneficial over all. It doesn't come with the strings that US aid comes with. The African continent is littered with the carcases of US 'aid' and the debt that came in its wake and the privatization vultures that came after to pick off any thing left over. It is not like that with China. And China gets access to rare minerals and other resources that they need.
It seems to me, AFRICOM is there precisely for this "problem." You can't have a uni-polar world with things like this going on. Ant then there is the problem of NORTHCOM. It's all about full spectrum dominance.
Exactly!
Have you noticed how all the crises happen right next to oil fields or controlling oil infrastructure or other coveted energy and mineral resources....Boko Harem and Yizidis, Ukraine for example?
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