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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (539)	6/24/2006 6:53:13 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Gus > The US has pathetically turned into a huge asylum for the religiously insane... crusading in the Middle East for the sake of its Zionist colony (Israel)... What has the US to offer the world nowadays? Military bases, intelligence officers, and battle-dressed advisors... to wage an Orwellian, perpetual war against terrorism. Contrariwise, China doesn't maintain a single troop outside China... while Chinese suits criss-crossed the planet a checkbook in one hand and a shopping list in the other.... I couldn't have said it better myself. I particularly like your description of the US, only I would have added to "...wage an Orwellian, perpetual war against terrorism" -- " and indeed terrorism which it has created". Also interesting about China -- how it has adopted the proper capitalist means of conquest, namely money and business, while the West has resorted to fascism, religious fundamentalism and military imperialism. There must be a message there, somewhere. Meanwhile, the Africans prepare themselves for a new master. seattletimes.nwsource.com >>Every time newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube visits his native Zimbabwe, he said, there seem to be more Chinese. He sees them shopping at boutiques, driving fancy cars, picking up their children from elite private schools. And as in much of Africa, Ncube said, China's reach into Zimbabwe's economy is equally pervasive: The roads are filled with Chinese buses, the markets with Chinese goods, and Chinese-made planes are in the skies. Chinese companies are major investors in mining and telecommunications. The government in Beijing, meanwhile, backs Zimbabwe's authoritarian president, Robert Mugabe. "They are all over the place," said Ncube, 43, who owns newspapers in Zimbabwe and South Africa. "If the British were our masters yesterday, the Chinese have come and taken their place."<<