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Re:Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say by wozniacki on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:54AM (#23800605) 

  The Chinese invest in African (sic) for minerals etc. 
  they bring in their own workers (why do they do this if 
  African wages are lower?).
This.

There's a most excellent documentary on the inroads the Chinese have industrially made in Africa called Empire of Dust (2011)[1] thats eminently watchable.[2][3][4]

Even going back a decade and more, the Chinese not only brought their own machinery, trucks, heavy and light equipment of all kinds down to nuts and bolts but also their own manpower for everything but the most menial of tasks for which they employed the local populace. This shows how unreliable or qualifiedly unworthy the Chinese deemed the skilled population in their host countries & how inefficient local governments were in furnishing them with basic skills.

[1]

Empire of Dust (2011)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2148945/

[2]

EMPIRE OF DUST - TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkEqI3_J4xg

[3]

Empire of Dust China in Africa Mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LSuZGlqL34

[4]

It's all so....tiresome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9LaHualx-s

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Re:Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:20AM (#23802006)
Or it could be a language issue. Africa speaks Portuguese, French, English, and local languages, more or less in that order. It doesn't speak Chinese. And while many Chinese speak English, there are far fewer Chinese managers with the time or the interest to learn yet another language. (Especially not Portuguese, which is one of the hardest Euro-based languages.)

Anyway - Africa will be developed after Asia is exhausted. It will take longer, but it will happen within a few decades.

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Re:Apple supplier Foxconn to invest $1B in India, sources say by mac123z on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:37AM (#23801045)
Unemployment
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