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2012-08-06 China-Japan-Koreas

Remember this when Beijing boasts about its 'win-win' African parternships

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Posted by 2012-08-06 09:41|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Smashing story! More please.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-06 09:55|| 2012-08-06 09:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Heart of Darkness, Part Two.

Did the Chinese pick up the site managers' manual from Leopold II of Belgium?

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-08-06 10:55|| 2012-08-06 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The Zambian miners on the Copperbelt have for a long time hated their Chinese overlords. They were seriously miffed when Chinese prisoners were sent to Zambia to labour gratis on the mines.
Yep and what did the local population get out of it? Probably not even a pair of plastic flip-flops. I don't blame them and, dare I say it, hope to see more of this, the Chinese deserve a good hiding just for what they're doing there.

Posted by Tarzan Spairt4671 2012-08-06 13:08|| 2012-08-06 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The main (long term) difference between the current Chinese colonization of Africa and the old European colonization, is that Chinese don't actually need the locals for labor force.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-08-06 13:40|| 2012-08-06 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Lebensraum, grom, lebensraum.

Posted by Tarzan Spairt4671 2012-08-06 18:48|| 2012-08-06 18:48|| Front Page Top

#6 "Western" empire building doesn't look so bad now, huh?

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2012-08-06 19:32|| 2012-08-06 19:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Still better than the Belgians.

In fairness, they were not shooting to kill: no one actually died, but 11 of the miners suffered bullet wounds.

Uh-huh. Sure. "They weren't trying to hit anyone".

Posted by Rob Crawford 2012-08-06 20:30|| 2012-08-06 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Apparently 60-plus years of Communism has caused Chinese companies to demand in cash + hoard their $$$ to the point of violence???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-08-06 20:39|| 2012-08-06 20:39|| Front Page Top

#9 50 years ago, Zambia and South Korea had similar GDP per capita. Today, Zambia and Korea have similar GDP per capita. Only today, the Korea in question is ruled by a ~~fat little runt~~ vertically-challenged individual with an eating disorder in Pyongyang.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2012-08-06 23:38|| 2012-08-06 23:38|| Front Page Top

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