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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
I don't see China offering much gain as I explained above. China gets access to African markets, but African suppliers cannot compete in the Chinese market.
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China will import African resources and export supply consmer goods to Africa, is that not trade?
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I don't agree with that. I believe we have free trade agreements with most countries. Let's use Brazil, India and South Africa as examples. So, if we have free trade agreements with them, where are these US-military facilities in those countries? Where have they signed onto our "governmental ideology" as you've claimed?
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Those countries are considered democracies, the US criterion for favorable government ideology and exempt from any US desired regime change.
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This comment doesn't make much sense, not to me anyway. Although I'm not signing on to your economic imperialism argument, even if I did, this sentence contradicts itself. You juxtapose economic imperialism with the quest for scarce resources, when those are actually synonymous things.
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Sorry I wasn't clear, I was referring to China using trade with non-interference compared to US nation building. I'd think most of Africa would prefer trusting trade to colonial era nation building.