wurzelgummidge @ wurzelgummidge @lemmy.world

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I'm sure I read elsewhere recently that the Ukrainian army was killing 17, 000 Russian troops a day. Fifty thousand wont last long

He may not care about the Palestinian issue but he may feel a little different about Israeli expansion

Slavery, human trafficking and child labour: >https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

Cobalt Red: a regressive, deeply flawed account of Congo’s mining industry https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/cobalt-red-siddharth-kara-democratic-republic-congo-book-review/

Toxic waste killing animals: >https://www.afrik21.africa/en/niger-chinese-gold-mines-closed-after-the-death-of-around-fifty-animals/

According to local livestock farmers

No further investigation? Certainly not, the US government just passed a bill dishing out $325 million a year of tax payers money for anti-China propaganda stories https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1157/text

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20240505-chinese-owned-gold-mines-in-niger-ordered-shut-after-herders-report-animal-deaths

The same story as above but it added the line:

French company Orano (formerly Areva), which has been extracting uranium in northern Niger for more than 40 years, is regularly accused by NGOs of polluting the environment.

The French have been doing it for 40 years and only now it gets a mention, a throwaway sentence at the end of an article criticising China.

Was there a follow-up? Did the mines reopen? Did the government send in the army, or allow private militias to quell restive natives as they would have to if the West were “protecting its interests?”

Labour violations, stealing land: >https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/locals-slam-zimbabwe-for-turning-a-blind-eye-to-chinese-miners-violations/

Zimbabwe has been cut off from global financiers over failure to service its debts. The country was also hit by sanctions and trade embargos by the European Union, U.K. and U.S. over serious human rights violations.

They conveniently forget to mention how it got into debt and why the country can’t service it. Go look up the country’s history, it might give you a clue as to why they might prefer doing business with China instead of the West.

Of course, mining is a dirty, filthy business. It fucks up the land and is really shitty for anyone who lives nearby. There are bound to be accidents and there are bound to be people who are upset.

That doesn’t alter the fact that China is also building infrastructure, creating jobs and giving them the tools they need to develop thus creating wealth.

I know Americans think Africans still live in mud huts and beat drums at dinner time but they are not so stupid that they keep doing business with people who routinely rip them off.

You will, of course, cry “China bad, China worse.” It seems a lot of African countries are willing to take that risk. After all, the railways that China has built in Southeast Asia, which the West insisted were doomed to fail, are doing extremely well indeed.

That is not proof. It is also a cropped photo. The uncropped version shows Tiananmen Square at the top but it doesn't show what your propagandists want it to show. I'll post it for you when I get home.

Prove me wrong

They are all over social media and news aggregators pushing nakedly pro-US narratives about everywhere the west doesn't like, feverishly downvoting anyone who has the temerity to offer a different point of view

Perhaps you could share some details

China’s engagment in Africa is just as neocolonial as Western engagement if not more

How so?

China is building infrastructure, creating jobs and giving African nations the tools they need to develop thus creating wealth. What does China get out of it? Markets - a place to sell the products the make. That is quite a bit different from the western policy of enriching despots, plundering mineral wealth and leaving the countries to fester and rot.

Never mattered to the Democrats either. No matter who has been in power America's geopolitical ambitions are all that mattered. To Trump, he is the only thing that matters.

Mum, Look! I'm waving my dick at China again!

It's mainly for the benefit of their own constituents. A day later there will be a big black headline reading something like China Slams US long-range bomber. Few places outside the western media bubble will bother to report it.

Since the 1960s, the United States has systematically punished the Cuban people through a stringent blockade on its economy for having declared and built a political and economic model different from the one advocated and directed by the United States.

The US also has about 750 military bases (not including black sites) scattered across 80 countries around the world

HK$20,000 is nothing when you consider that is not much more than a months rent in Hong Kong.

Isn't that a bit like asking the fox to guard the hen house?

How do you know its the truth?

Casualty counts and battlefield losses are disputed during active conflicts, and experts urge caution when considering tallies offered by either party in a war. Moscow and Kyiv very rarely nod to their own casualty counts.

But how did America and Americans ever allow it to get like this?

Of course not, because they are complicit

Georgian President Won't Recognize Vote Results, Calls For Protests, Alleges Russian Interference

What a surprise, eh?