President of Namibia Hage Geingob speaking with the German ambassador to Namibia, Herbert Beck
"Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time the West visits we get a lecture."
Lol he doesnt even talk about Chinese investments or anything
He straight up goes "theres too many Chinese in this country"
A while back there were reports that SOME - not even a trend, but literally some individuals - Chinese people working on BRI projects in Africa decided to permanently move there and have families with African people. Redditors were seething and hand wringing about race mixing and how Chinese people hate black people. All because like 3 random guys married African women
I read a Nigerian's opinion on these Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa and he says the way he measures the future growth of an African city is by how many blasian babies he sees 💀
we're going to hear the most insane "race science" about mixed Chinese and African people in the future, aren't we?
Malagasy Lemurians are a communist mutt race and they have many personality problems because the chin is a shaped like this
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In the past it was Russian names. It's why you find boomers with the middle name Vladimir or whatever
Honestly I almost wish the president had just asked his initial question and then waited for the ambassador's answer. The ambassador seemed completely unprepared for that response, I feel like he would have exposed himself if put on the spot. But I'm all for the bullying, too.
Honestly I almost wish the president had just asked his initial question and then waited for the ambassador’s answer.
Yea they don't deserve a rebuttal
The appropriate response should be to completely ignore what they said and change the topic
When the euros send their ambassadors, they aren't sending their best. Everyone reading this is already aware, but: these people are not hired for their brains. They're hired for their ability to jump when the bourgeoisie says: "jump!" The German ambassador would not be able to think up a good answer to these questions (not only because he's a dingdong, but because a good answer doesn't exist).
Weird how the colonised peoples of Africa aren't invested in maintaining the white supremacist world order.
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He ain’t lying. Whenever China comes to visit they’re negotiating with African countries and discussing new ways to develop or increase trade
I don’t think I’ve read a single report where westerners came and discussed anything other than Chinese plans lol. It’s like meeting up with a date and all they talk about is how much they hate work and especially Chang from the finance department
Well they are starting to show up to talk about Russia because turns out Africans are often grateful to people who helped them decolonize
You know my ex that I abused and is now doing better than me? I have decided you need to hear my opinions of them.
It is so fun to see these vile, fucking worms get shown disrespect. they come to Africa, etc expecting to be worshipped, expecting to be sucked off by their former subjects, and are aghast at even the slightest rebuff. No german should even have the right to talk about anyone else "taking over", hell no German should be allowed into a third world country, not after the DDR fell
Broke: Hating that there's non-Western people in your country
Bespoke: Hating that there's non-Westerners in non-Western countries!
they hate that China is full of Chinese every day, it's why the 5gorges infinity-train cope exists
4x as many Chinese as Germans
westoids learn to use Indian numerals and know literally anything at all about population numbers challenge (heat death of the universe)
Why is it so hard for westerners to create a similar plan to China's that would compete with it? Looking at it even rationally, creating an investment plan for Africa is the only way out for serious economic growth for the EU or the US, from their point of view. Just can it be done, without the debt trap, neocolonial approach, and exploitation? I don't think so.
IMO it's the same reason westerners can't create working utilities, mass transit and medical systems in their own countries. The western political establishment is chained to their ideological view of how money and power work, a pragmatic approach to these things would be in direct contradiction with their idealised view of how markets operate.
Essentially, to remove the debt traps and exploitation from their programs would be a tacit admission that these things exist in the first place.
Because westerners have a huge stuck up their ass about "corruption" and "foreign aid handouts" whenever giving money to black or brown people is discussed. Never mind the fact that these would really just be investments, and are totally compatible with capitalism. The easiest and most effective thing to do would to simply treat Africans as equals politically and offer them standard investment capital for them to use to develop their economies. Just like a start up, rich just give them some money for a share of the profit later. Still exploitative as we know but most African governments would consider this a good deal.
But the west won't even do those deals. They throw on all this other shit into the negotiations. Financial deregulation, defund social services, open your political system to CIA meddling, give bankers special visas, host a NATO military base, ect. West says it's to improve democracy or whatever, but really they are just trying to maximize return on investment by leveraging imperial power. The west figures they could get more money out of the global south by turning them into neocolonies. They don't care about Africans, figure they can keep them oppressed, and pissed China is disrupting their little scam with actually beneficial deals.
Would love to see more responses like this to imperialist bullshit from the west
