Ex-student gets 8 years for spying for Chinese government

[ancianita]

28. Symbiotic relationships. Yes, that's how exploitation starts. Almost every modernization project

of China's, massive or not, has been bought or reverse engineered on the shoulders of Western "investment" projects now labeled colonial exploitation. The East Africa Master Plan looks impressive. Yet, of all the railways intended for 9 countries, only one is operational.

Have you read of the British railway systems built during their Empire period? Have you read that Kenya is partnering with Britain right now to build more railway? When I visited Maputo, in Mozambique, I can't tell you how Mozambican tourism is built on proudly displaying the downtown government houses they use, their wealthy class's mansion, their professional district, all built by their former Portuguese masters. When I visited Cuba, twice, and rode in those rickety Chinese buses sold to its military for tourists, I saw a bit of Chinese engineering quality. Unlike former colonial masters whose home infrastructure is much better, one wonders if China's investments produce the same quality outside their home country.


The idea that only the West has been exploitative is a distortion. Sure, China is investing in "3rd world" development; most of those client states, having 'nationalized' older empire infrastructure, will try out a new "partner," and compare the the quality of infrastructure building between that partner and the old colonial masters. Recent Chinese debt based infrastructure projects will bear that out. When "investments" are sold as win-win, and then over time, turn win-lose, that's when the debtor's remorse sets in. By then, as in South Africa (Peru and Chile), the "investor" is in the halls of government. Minority controlled government.