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China in Africa: Slavery or Development?
by tjanssen | October 2, 2008 at 11:52 am | 49 views | 2 comments | 0 recommendations
by tjanssen
In a thought provoking article, Peter Hitchens describes his first hand experiences of the unsavoury practices of Chinese businesses in Africa. BUT at the same time, he asks the question if all the aid and good intensions in the world have not helped in the past forty decades, maybe the "Chinese" approach might...
October 2, 2008 at 11:52 am by tjanssen, 49 views, 2 comments
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at 03:05 on October 3rd, 2008
I found his article heavily loaded with intemperate assertions he could not substantiate. He kept telling the reader what China felt and believed: I'm not sure how he knows so much about the Chinese government's mind! What a pity you did not summarise his main assertions! I prefer to read about China in Foreign Affairs, where the evidence is presented clearly!
at 03:26 on October 3rd, 2008
@Gerry
Yes, the article was quite opinionated, and thus very subjective.
What stroke me - I am an aid worker - was how he made a link between what he called 'slavery' and 'aid work'...
"For once, they argued, a foreign intervention in Africa might work precisely because it is so cynical and self-interested. They said Western aid, with all its conditions, did little to create real advances in Africa"