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A comment on South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen. Parent comment
It's simply not the same thing.
Sure, China was forced to humiliating concession by the European.
But it's not the same. The borders of countries in Africa were drawn by Europeans.
For hundreds of years large parts of the continent was dominated by European colonialism.
If trade rights and relatively minor land concessions were considered humiliating by the Chinese... Just imagine
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It's simply not the same thing.
Sure, China was forced to humiliating concession by the European.
But it's not the same. The borders of countries in Africa were drawn by Europeans.
For hundreds of years large parts of the continent was dominated by European colonialism.
If trade rights and relatively minor land concessions were considered humiliating by the Chinese... Just imagine