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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:25 am    Post subject: The White Man's Burden REVISITED Reply with quote

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

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602190331feb19,1,479378.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Child labor...a new twist on "equal treatment."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aW8xVLQ4Xhr8&refer=australia
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Continues apace--but still lower extraction than the West:

"It is only 30 miles to the city, but we cannot reach there with the things we have to sell: tomatoes, cassava, charcoal," he told The Daily Telegraph.

"The road is too bad, the trucks are too expensive, and we are facing too many difficulties. It has always been this way, but now we hear that the Chinese will come and fix this."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2299785/China's-andpound4bn-drive-to-buy-Africa's-mineral-wealth.html


http://gbcghana.com/news/21296detail.html
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

18 page section in The Economist on china's resource expansion into africa.

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10795714
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

China brings their model of social DISintegration to Peru:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN22586580
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"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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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

....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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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is why many Chinese folks I know would prefer not to work for Chinese employers. Sad but true.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

African opposition candidate "supports" Taiwan:

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

"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
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