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Re:Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help by segmondy on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:27PM (#13603210)
My strong opinion on this. Their secret is trade, China manufactures, they build, they create, they need more raw material than ever and Africa has that. That's why they are in Africa, they are making these deals so they can get their raw materials. That's one.

Second, China was "poor" not too long, it's fresh in their mind, they know how a poor place can just transform, and they see that possibility in Africa. Plenty of those that didn't make it in China figure they can in Africa by leveraging their connection to China. So it's not just rich Chinese in Africa, there are just average Chinese folks who move to Africa and do trade import/export and build small businesses too. They see the possibility and potential. Americans don't see that in Africa, most people alive in America today didn't witness when the majority of America was "materialistic poor" like Africa is today. Which was about 100+yrs ago.

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Re:Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help by noonespecial on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:47PM (#13603640)
So Africa is China's California. Whoa. I hope this time around, the Africans aren't the Indians.
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Re:Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @08:26PM (#13603834)
How much do you know about the history of Africa and relations with Europe over the past few hundred years?
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Re:Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help by akiselev on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:09PM (#13609242)
Or the history of California, for that matter. By the time Native American tribes in California made contact with the invaders, the United States was decades away from becoming an independent country. By the time America and Mexico went to war, 90% of them had already died due to diseases spread by Russian fur traders and Spanish missionaries.
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