The White Man's Burden REVISITED

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: The White Man's Burden REVISITED

China in Africa--where Western guilt cannot go/do:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602190331feb19,1,479378.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

rffrydr · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

Some cracks in another infrastructure story:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/58079b3a-c897-11dc-94a6-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=8735dcb2-be8a-11dc-8c61-0000779fd2ac.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

Resources continue to be found. And judging from the price paid, not always at too high a price:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/25/content_7306657.htm
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:

The enivitable:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6a509d5a-f264-11db-a454-000b5df10621.html

China will quickly have to kick the "colonized" mindset.
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

That "final frontier" in African finance may not be "ours":

http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/economy/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&lvl2=econ&ArticleID=1518-25_2098864
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rffrydr · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

"Wherever there is business opportunity, there are Wenzhou people."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nomads12mar12,0,4303516.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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rffrydr · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject:

....And the (pen)ultimate twist right here on our doorstep!:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chickasaw10dec10,0,7483753.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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HenryTo · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:58 am Post subject:

That is why many Chinese folks I know would prefer not to work for Chinese employers. Sad but true.

rffrydr · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:30 am Post subject:

And the darker side:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chizambia6oct06,0,2865535.story?coll=la-home-headlines

When in Rome do as in home. Didn't take long for the reaction.

rffrydr · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:56 am Post subject:

How do you say, 'cha, cha, cha':

http://www.startribune.com/722/story/711343.html

I wonder how the aethesism is coming across?

I remember this phenomenon at the height of Japan's investment here in california. That their target was Pebble Beach makes it all the more incomprehensible.

rffrydr · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

African opposition candidate "supports" Taiwan:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?ID=89896&GRP=B
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

"In Nigeria, a Chinese-language newspaper now serves 50,000 immigrants. At no stage in Britain’s colonisation of Nigeria did the British numbers reach such a figure. As one opposition figure in Zimbabwe observed: “If the British were our masters yesterday, the Chinese have come and taken their place.”"

"Of three MA60 passenger jets the Chinese sent to Mugabe, one has never managed to fly, one had to make an emergency landing at Victoria Falls, injuring many passengers, and the third caught fire on take-off in Harare last week. All are now grounded."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2271971,00.html

rffrydr · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject:

From this week's Economist, "A Warm Embrace":

Angola, the second-largest producer in sub-Saharan Africa, is now the single biggest supplier of oil to China, surpassing Saudi Arabia. Last year Angolan-Chinese trade was worth $7 billion.

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SDRDVSQ

rffrydr · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

Things look different from "our" point of view, "Democratic Republic of Congo" is seen as an "imaginary place" to open a mine.

http://www.mineweb.net/sections/whats_new/932414.htm

Otherwise good article on the structural impediements to capacity in base materials and the mindframe of "high prices." But take note, new tech. peeking its head, Hydrometallurgy and the passing of smelters....
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