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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (632)11/1/2006 7:22:23 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
Gus > As a one-party state, China's foreign policy is not driven by a concern to promote human rights, in Africa or elsewhere."

Of course, history has shown us that the foreign policy of the West is "to promote human rights, in Africa or elsewhere." Iraq is a good example of the promotion of Western "human rights".

> But it is plainly designed to make money, win friends, and gain influence. In Africa, it is as if the era of 19th century imperial expansion is happening all over again - but this time freebies and open chequebooks have replaced glass beads and pith helmets.

At least Tisdale has the honesty to admit that the agenda of the West is no different from that of China -- self-interest.
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