Notice something in the first one? The involved ones got jailed by Ghana. China did not prevent them facing justice. Almost as if the state of China is not looting Africa.
The one named company in the second article is from HK, where the PRC has limited authority regarding stuff as that.
China is not utopia, but the PRC has shown time and time again their willingness to comply with local law. If one of its citizens does illigal shit somewhere, it let's the local authorities handle it and does not demand special treatment. A good example is your first link.
You may find the historical material realities of Ghana and Burkina Faso are drastically different as are their relationships with the “international rules based order” that determines legality and legitimacy in the eyes of the West.
Yes Chinese private firms often do shady shit, that's bad but it's also sadly part of the process with the Dengist strategy of using capitalist trade to develop productive forces so socialism can compete with the West.
Meanwhile the Chinese state provides a lot of aid to developing nations targeted by the west, like Cuba, Bolivia and several African nations. These do also benefit China by giving them more training partners but it's not purely extractive, their aid also helps them develop their own productive forces so their economies aren't purely based on resource extraction and export and so can they can more resilience against western sanctions. I can't find the video now for the life of me, but there is one out there of some western official trying to talk to an African politician about "Chinese imperialism" and the African guy is just like "when you come here we get lectures, when China comes we get a port".
In the meantime, Chinese companies are continuing to illegally mine in Africa
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ghana-court-jails-chinese-national-over-illegal-gold-mining-2023-12-04/
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/chinese-companies-linked-to-illegal-logging-and-mining-in-northern-drc/
Notice something in the first one? The involved ones got jailed by Ghana. China did not prevent them facing justice. Almost as if the state of China is not looting Africa.
The one named company in the second article is from HK, where the PRC has limited authority regarding stuff as that.
China is not utopia, but the PRC has shown time and time again their willingness to comply with local law. If one of its citizens does illigal shit somewhere, it let's the local authorities handle it and does not demand special treatment. A good example is your first link.
You may find the historical material realities of Ghana and Burkina Faso are drastically different as are their relationships with the “international rules based order” that determines legality and legitimacy in the eyes of the West.
"wait, africa isnt a country?"
Yes Chinese private firms often do shady shit, that's bad but it's also sadly part of the process with the Dengist strategy of using capitalist trade to develop productive forces so socialism can compete with the West.
Meanwhile the Chinese state provides a lot of aid to developing nations targeted by the west, like Cuba, Bolivia and several African nations. These do also benefit China by giving them more training partners but it's not purely extractive, their aid also helps them develop their own productive forces so their economies aren't purely based on resource extraction and export and so can they can more resilience against western sanctions. I can't find the video now for the life of me, but there is one out there of some western official trying to talk to an African politician about "Chinese imperialism" and the African guy is just like "when you come here we get lectures, when China comes we get a port".
It was a Kenyan
Yeah I tried googling it but it seems to have disappeared from the internet for whatever reason
Okay, based African politician. Thanks for the perspective.