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Friday, September 07, 2007
In conjunction with the previous article. This article also concerns China's developement into a first world country. However, the difference in this article is that this does not concern Chinese products but the presense of chinese businesses in Africa.
As you all know Africa has been plagued with inner turmoil with civil wars, famine, wide spread of diseases and have been at the mercy of western powers. However, know the africans have been able to pull up their socks attracting investors from other countries but a problem they all faced was that these foreign investors who invested in Africa have been making use of the abundant resources in Africa such as oil and the like.
In this article, the Africans are quite happy that China has gone in to invest and has helped create numerous jobs for their people who are now able to earn money for their family. However, the key point in the article was, would China become something like the western powers who robbed Africa of its resources or was it actually helping Africa. Let me begin by explaining this point, chinese mines in africa although having created jobs for the locals there has had a certain down side, that being that these workers in chinese mines are being paid much less than those working in other mines. This led them to think, was China another world power who was taking advantage of Africa for her own good?
I believe that China although having invested in Africa has a some good for the africans, is actually meant to help China develope not so much Africa. After all, isn't it the survival of the strongest,in this case China having done whatever it has done for the good of the country. However, this investments has also a bright side for the africans as there is an increase in jobs and hopefully a brighter future, but this may all be the side effects of the investments.
As you all know Africa has been plagued with inner turmoil with civil wars, famine, wide spread of diseases and have been at the mercy of western powers. However, know the africans have been able to pull up their socks attracting investors from other countries but a problem they all faced was that these foreign investors who invested in Africa have been making use of the abundant resources in Africa such as oil and the like.
In this article, the Africans are quite happy that China has gone in to invest and has helped create numerous jobs for their people who are now able to earn money for their family. However, the key point in the article was, would China become something like the western powers who robbed Africa of its resources or was it actually helping Africa. Let me begin by explaining this point, chinese mines in africa although having created jobs for the locals there has had a certain down side, that being that these workers in chinese mines are being paid much less than those working in other mines. This led them to think, was China another world power who was taking advantage of Africa for her own good?
I believe that China although having invested in Africa has a some good for the africans, is actually meant to help China develope not so much Africa. After all, isn't it the survival of the strongest,in this case China having done whatever it has done for the good of the country. However, this investments has also a bright side for the africans as there is an increase in jobs and hopefully a brighter future, but this may all be the side effects of the investments.
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