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Re:Typhoid spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail by pvaldes on Thursday September 26, 2024 @11:30AM (#41659536)
Is really a friendly trade or just plounder?

https://dialogue.earth/en/pollution/741-china-s-environmenta...

The Chinese oil company Sinopec has been charged with mass pollution, dynamiting areas of a National Park in Gabon and carving roads through the forest

According to GlobalTimber.org.uk, China is sourcing huge amounts of wood from forests in Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Liberia. What is worrying is the illegal nature of this trade

Half of all wood imported from Cameroon into China is harvested illegally. In Gabon, 70% of wood exports to China are illegal. In Liberia 100% is illegal

The case of Nigeria and its Niger Delta oilfields is well known as an environmental disaster area

Re:Typhoid spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail by FooBarWidget on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:08PM (#41660790)
Due to the scale, of course there are problems. Of course there are actors that are not well behaved. But that doesn't mean that these incidents are representative of the whole.

Put it another way: if on the whole China's business is not net positive, then why does Africa continue to do business with China? Nothing prevents them from kicking all Chinese companies out. Nothing prevents them from giving fines to companies that violate the law. Nothing prevents them from renegotiating. African leaders have been saying for years that China's contributions are still net positive despite problems existing.

I am puzzled. Why are you still pointing out problems? Why are you ignoring everything else I said? This is so non-constructive. Africa does not need the west to give another lecture (pointing out problems only). It needs the west to walk the talk: instead of smearing, offer Africans a better alternative than both China and inaction. Offer solutions, and actually deliver them.

Re:Typhoid spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail by pvaldes on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:30AM (#41668076)
>> 100% of the wood in Liberia is exported to China illegally.

> doesn't mean that [100%] are representative of the whole

Re:Typhoid spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail by FooBarWidget on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:39AM (#41668141)
Liberia is not the only African country. Liberia also exported significant amount of illegal Timber to other countries, including western countries, so framing this as a uniquely China problem is misleading and disingenuous.

Now stop dodging and answer the other parts. Of is that too uncomfortable?