Related: Why The Boston Globe Cares About Guinea
Yeah, I KNEW PEOPLE had NOTHING to DO WITH IT!
"Deal with Guinea highlights China’s business ties in Africa" by Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press | October 25, 2009
BEIJING - A $7 billion mining deal between Guinea’s repressive military regime and a little-known Chinese company underscores China’s full-throttle rush into Africa and its willingness to deal with brutal and corrupt governments.
Now I KNOW they KNOCKED OFF ONE of OUR DICTATORS!
That is why you seldom saw Guinea in the papers before then. The colorful description of the new rulers proves the MSM bias: were they supported, they would be called a de facto government like in Honduras.
And don't you love the hypocrisy, as the U.S. props up an Afghan puppet, an Iraqi puppet, and all the other s*** dictators who have or are doing the killing and looting for us. Obviously, the global planners are troubled by this development, or it would not have made the Sunday paper.
The deal announced last week by the West African country’s military junta offers the company, China International Fund, access to Guinea’s bauxite and other minerals and could provide major revenues to a government facing international isolation. Guinea’s soldiers opened fire on demonstrators late last month, killing up to 157, and raped women in public. Human rights groups decried the pact....
I no longer care what western-centric, agenda-pushing human rights groups say.
In many ways, the Guinea deal reflects established Chinese business practices in Africa, characterized by huge investments in a still-poor continent but also secrecy and often scant regard for labor and human rights.
Like the U.S. or its MOUTHPIECE MEDIA have a right to criticize!
I'll bet they wish America and the western corporations they defend would make huge investments in poor African nations, 'ey? I know that would win me over more than a U.S. threat or bomb.
China’s defenders point out that other investors from the West, Japan, India, and elsewhere are also major economic partners with less-than-democratic African governments.
Yeah, the CHINESE KNOW HYPOCRISY when they see it!
In Guinea,
So the WHOLE TONE of this article becomes OFFENSIVE NOW because of the ax-grinding, agenda-pushing, war-promoting bias!
Also, China has given aid, loans, or investment to more than 17 African nations, some of which do have democratic governments.
And with EACH SENTENCE it gets WORSE!
But China’s practices have raised questions about whether the huge sums will hamper the progress of human rights and good governance in Africa, even as they raise the standards of living and line the pockets of some.
Pffft!
I'm sick of this one-sided shit slop passing itself off as "news."
Newspapers suck!
China has given large chunks of money to corrupt and abusive regimes such as those in oil-rich Nigeria and Sudan, much criticized over abuses in the Darfur region. For example, China has a controversial $9 billion agreement with violence-plagued Congo.
Related: African Safari: Clinton Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Did the Chinese murder 10 million people for minerals?
Also see: African Safari: Clinton Cuts Nigerian Peace Deal
The HYPOCRISY and OBFUSCATION NEVER END, huh?
“There’s obviously mixed emotions with regard to China-Africa relations,’’ said Kellie Jane Whitlock, of the South African magazine Corporate Africa.
Translation: Western corporations don't like the Chinese honing in on "their" resources.
Unlike companies from the recession-struck West, there are “Chinese companies that are still growing and looking into investing further into Africa,’’ Whitlock said. The Chinese are “quite inclined to look after their investment and build their investment. They are serious about investing in Africa.’’
We just want military bases.
Is that why Africans like the Chinese more?
Scrutiny and mixed emotions are rising in Africa as the volume of China’s dealings soar....
Only in WESTERN CORPORATIONS and CAPITALS, lying MSM!
Estimates of Chinese investment in Africa range upward from $6 billion as China tries to lock up oil, gas, and other key resources for its resource-hungry economy.
Yeah, good thing AmeriKa is about liberating people, huh?
Estimates for total loans, investment and aid donations - often difficult to distinguish from each other - run closer to $50 billion.
I'll bet the U.S. isn't even close (unless military aid is counted).
Hong Kong-registered China International Fund has done big deals with another undemocratic African government: Angola.
So what?
See: African Safari: From A to Z
Oh, SHE PRAISED THEM, did she?
The company, known as CIF, is building housing, highways, and the capital’s airport in Angola, which is one of China’s leading suppliers of oil....
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