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Africa, the Last Hope of the Chinese Regime?

China began its penetration into Africa about 10 years ago, attracted by its minerals, oil and gas, all vital to the continued economic growth required to maintain and justify the CCP dictatorship. This incessant need has led China to create commercial relationships with several African countries, many scarred by internal conflicts and dictatorial regimes such as Sudan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Not only has China decided to place no political pressure on any of the countries it is working with to encourage them to adopt reforms concerning "good governance" and human rights - really, how could it? - it also makes shameless declarations such as "Western democracy imported in Africa is simply inadequate to that context, indeed bringing along the roots of disaster."

Chinese businesses fail to hire local experts and fail to train the local population, while exploiting, underpaying, beating and threatening their African employees, who are forced to work in filthy, dangerous, illegal conditions.

A Zambian government minister was shown weeping on television after she witnessed the working conditions at a Chinese-owned coal mine. A senior worker from the 2005 mine explosion recalls: "Zambia, a country of 11 million people, went into official mourning for this disaster. A Chinese supervisor said to me in broken English, 'In China, 5,000 people die, and there is nothing. In Zambia, 50 people die and everyone is weeping.' To them, 50 people are nothing."

China provides huge loans, new infrastructures and promises of hospitals and schools. Chinese state-owned businesses have access to state capital, therefore they are able to outbid Western companies. No messy human rights issues attached. In return, they obtain a free pass to plunder Africa's resources and Africa’s people. Only the African elite benefit from these business relationships with China, which provide vital support to corrupt African leadership. At the very same time, Africa’s resources serve to prop up the corrupt Chinese regime.

Some Africans realize that they are facing yet another era of colonization and exploitation, while others may be hoping to become part of the so-called "Chinese economic miracle."

What they fail to realize is that while they and their continent are being sold into slavery, Africa itself may be the last hope for the dying Chinese dictatorship.

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