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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (23411)	7/25/2005 6:51:34 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81665

Gus > China/Asia has been eating away at Europe's interests in Africa Yes, I am much more aware of that now than I was. In fact, I saw a TV program which showed China's MASSIVE involvement in Africa. The program was about Ghana but there was information showing how China is moving into Africa wherever it can and gives aid and develops the place with no strings attached, unlike the West which insists on all kinds of preconditions. In the circumstances, one can only say that the West has screwed up comprehensively -- as usual. I can also see that Mbebi's failure to act on Zimbabwe must partly be due to his "paralysis" caused by the presence of the Chinese "snake". He knows that if he gets tough, SA will be facing Chinese military technology. And now, being much more aware of China, I can see that his offer to Zim of a $1bn "loan" is only because he knows that if he doesn't give it China will, and more. Actually I see increasingly that Mbeki is a proxy for the West (US/UK) and his pan-African policy, NEPAD, is similar to what Britain tried a hundred years ago, but which fell away after WW2 during the wave of anti-colonialism and independence. > You should read the local papers more often Actually, there's very little in the local papers about Chinese involvement in Africa, or maybe I don't see it? IMO, the news which is presented in the local media is hardly news -- mostly verbiage and so-called entertainment.