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To: elmatador who wrote (46206)	1/31/2018 3:30:32 AM
From: axial	Respond to of 46821

elmat, on Frank's thread we've discussed Chinese-African greenfield network development for years. The emerging hegemon that is China will expand into all other fields, in many countries, just as the US did. And Great Britain, before that. As capital, politics and profit permit. Globally and in Africa, China has, and is spending, massive amounts of capital. ________________________________________ 2012: 'Starting from near-zero, all the excitement about greenfield development in Africa is justified. But is there any reason to suspect that long-term, the same processes that captured our telecoms won't capture theirs? Capital - and access to capital - trumps all. There'll be a slow progression of pyramiding buy-outs, ending with a few major players dominating infrastructure, regulators and politicians. Captive end-users will once again battle with rentiers. Only democracies that have articulated public and national interests have defeated the stasis, dissatisfaction, fraud, constant bickering and legal maneuvering that pervades our systems. Sure, there's competition in newly-open markets and lots of hand-waving. For now. Give it time.' ________________________________________ Did you expect the China to act differently than its predecessors? Jim