Al Jazeera has put up an opinion piece that I found rather interesting and informative, it's about the struggle for Africa. It covers both American and Chinese interest in Africa's resources, and how (unfortunately) China is making Africa a better deal than the United States is. It's kind of long, but I think it's worth a read.
[url]http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/04/2011422131911465794.html[/url]
I'm going to take a look but don't the Chinese have work camps in Africa according to Wikileaks?
Considering what the states have done to countries like uganda I'm not surprised
[editline]26th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Vasili;29446374]I'm going to take a look but don't the Chinese have work camps in Africa according to Wikileaks?[/QUOTE]
if so never mind what I just said
Good read, and nope, article isn't long at all.
[QUOTE=Vasili;29446374]I'm going to take a look but don't the Chinese have work camps in Africa according to Wikileaks?[/QUOTE]
Yes they do.
Time to buy a Cold War era shelter before the prices go up again.
[QUOTE=Vasili;29446374]I'm going to take a look but don't the Chinese have work camps in Africa according to Wikileaks?[/QUOTE]
Wait hold on, what? Could someone give me a link to this?
[QUOTE=MrBob1337;29447883]Wait hold on, what? Could someone give me a link to this?[/QUOTE]
they also have brothels in iraq
America has dibs all up on Libya.
I don't buy the idea that America's intervention in Libya was a plot to wreck Chinese interests in that country.
[QUOTE=5killer;29448322]I don't buy the idea that America's intervention in Libya was a plot to wreck Chinese interests in that country.[/QUOTE]
It's to break some connections with a brutal dictator who is now getting more attention after the revolutions began.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;29446381]Considering what the states have done to countries like uganda I'm not surprised[/QUOTE]
Like what?
God damn Al Jazeera, why do you have to make sense, and then go and say something like this:
[quote]the Pentagon invested in a botched large-scale invasion of Somalia [/quote]
:frog:
Way to toss your fucking credibility out the window. Why not call the United Nations fascist imperialist scum, considering the intervention was UN sanctioned.
[QUOTE=Contag;29480366]:frog:
Way to toss your fucking credibility out the window. Why not call the United Nations fascist imperialist scum, considering the intervention was UN sanctioned.[/QUOTE]
If I remember right, it wasn't large scale, and it failed terribly.
In fact, didn't we pretty much give up when they shot one of our helicopters down?
[quote]Africom's reputation has not been exactly sterling – as the Tunisian and Egyptian chapters of the great 2011 Arab Revolt caught it totally by surprise. [/quote]
I'm quite sure that took most people by surprise, not the least of which were the governments of those states.
[quote]an easily [B]demonised[/B] dictator[/quote]
:frog:
Because you have to try so hard to do that.
[quote]The white man in Africa has been, most of the time, arrogant and condescending. The Chinese, humble, courageous, efficient and discreet. [/quote]
Wow, wasn't expecting racism in the article! I sure do love the Chinese and their humble nature!
[quote]The best Beijing may offer is to help Africa to fulfil its destiny. In the eyes of Africans themselves, that certainly beats any Tomahawk. [/quote]
Really, so by vetoing any condemnation resolutions in the security council against Khartoum slaughtering people in Darfur wholesale, saying that it was an 'internal issue', Beijing is helping fulfill the average African's destiny?
How odd. Why would China support murderous regimes? Surely there must some kind of reason for this?
[quote]China is Sudan's largest economic partner, with a 40% share in their oil[/quote]
Oh right, the same fucking reason as everyone else.
OP that was one of the poorest articles I've read in a while. Maybe the first four paragraphs were alright, but then it just descended into biased horseshit with no grounding in reality.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;29480501]If I remember right, it wasn't large scale, and it failed terribly.
In fact, didn't we pretty much give up when they shot one of our helicopters down?[/QUOTE]
2, and 19 KIA if I remember. Congress and the American public expected another Desert Storm.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;29480501]If I remember right, it wasn't large scale, and it failed terribly.
In fact, didn't we pretty much give up when they shot one of our helicopters down?[/QUOTE]
-snip got my dates mixed up, haven't done US 90s conflicts in a while-
So basically, Neo-imperialism?
[QUOTE=Diomedes;29479351]Like what?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.mrdestructo.com/2010/06/lets-execute-fags-or-cliffy-eat-da-poo.html]Uganda's criminalization of homosexuality is almost exclusively based on (and legitimized by) the American right-wing's verbal and legislative attacks on homosexuals.[/url]
Al Jazeera just lost all credibility in my eyes. That was undoubtedly one of the most biased pieces of horse shit I have ever read.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;29480501]If I remember right, it wasn't large scale, and it failed terribly.
In fact, didn't we pretty much give up when they shot one of our helicopters down?[/QUOTE]
that blackhawk was shot down hours within my birth :v:
[QUOTE=Earthen;29482851]Al Jazeera just lost all credibility in my eyes. That was undoubtedly one of the most biased pieces of horse shit I have ever read.[/QUOTE]To be fair, their news articles are fairly decent, it's just the opinion pieces like this one that tend to descend into lunacy.
Haha quite humorous it's rare to see articles so biased towards China.
[QUOTE=Earthen;29482851]Al Jazeera just lost all credibility in my eyes. That was undoubtedly one of the most biased pieces of horse shit I have ever read.[/QUOTE]
It's actually only an opinion and not a news article.
[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;29482741][url=http://www.mrdestructo.com/2010/06/lets-execute-fags-or-cliffy-eat-da-poo.html]Uganda's criminalization of homosexuality is almost exclusively based on (and legitimized by) the American right-wing's verbal and legislative attacks on homosexuals.[/url][/QUOTE]
lmfao wow, the lengths some people go to link whitey with the thoroughly shit state of Africa. If they want to base shit on something they saw on US television go right ahead, don't try and blame that on whitey. What is Uganda supposed to be like our dumb impressionable younger brother that we take the blame for when they get up to something retarded? lololol. And for the record, while this is my third or fourth time viewing that video, it still makes me roffle. Eat da poo poo... oh, how could I have ignored the resemblance to the teachings of white people who have been teaching for decades that gay men dey eat da poo poo!
You said that the US has "done things" to Uganda. Them killin' dee hoe-moes because whitey does it.. did it.. at some point.. is not a satisfying example.
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