China helps Africa where West failed

[General Duke]

The China National Petroleum Company (C.N.P.C.) operates this exploration site southeast of Ndjamena. China has been investing in one African country after another. In large oil-exporting countries like Angola and Nigeria, China is building or fixing railroads, and landing giant exploration contracts in Congo and Guinea.

 

 

 

 

[General Duke]

Chadian oil workers prayed between the trailers of their camp near the exploration site. Chad is among Africa’s poorest and least stable countries, the scene of recurrent civil wars and foreign invasions since it gained independence from France in 1960.

 

 

 

[General Duke]

In 2006 the US based Heritage foundation wrote this piece..

{b]China's Influence in Africa: Implications for the United States[/b]

 

Chinese government firms have invested billions

of dollars in foreign exchange and have used Chi­nese engineering and construction resources on infrastructure for developing oil, gas, mineral, and other natural resources in dozens of African coun­tries, including Algeria, Angola, Gabon, Nigeria, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. The PRC’s new African energy investments are clearly intended to supple­ment its Middle Eastern oil imports.

 

.........Sudan, which now supplies 7 percent of China’s total oil imports,[6] has benefited from the largest Chinese investments. The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is the single largest shareholder (40 percent) in the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, which controls Sudan’s oil fields,[7] and has invested $3 billion in refinery and pipeline con­struction in Sudan since 1999.

 

.............In March 2004, Beijing extended a $2 billion loan to Angola in exchange for a contract to supply 10,000 barrels of crude oil per day.[8] Under the agreement, the loan will be heavily reinvested in infrastructure construction, with 70 percent of the loan funds going to Chinese companies and the remaining 30 percent going to local subcontractors.[9]

In July 2005, PetroChina concluded an $800 million deal with the Nigerian National Petro­leum Corporation to purchase 30,000 barrels of oil per day for one year.[10]

 

.............In January 2006, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), after failing to acquire American-owned Unocal, purchased a 45 per­cent stake in a Nigerian offshore oil and gas field for $2.27 billion and promised to invest an addi­tional $2.25 billion in field development.[11]

 

................Gabon’s declining oil industry also saw massive investment from China National Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC), which plans to explore Gabon’s onshore and offshore oil reserves.

[General Duke]

An alternative approach

 

China’s approach to Africa – popularly referred to as the Beijing Consensus 14 – may thus have serious implications for the continent’s development paradigm. Many African leaders view emerging South–South relations as an historic opportunity to escape their neo-colonial ties to the West.

China’s example – 400 million people were lifted out of poverty in two decades, without externally enforced structural adjustment programmes

– has bolstered African countries’ optimism that they too can devise their own development path, and that the Western model is not holy. By presenting a ‘different’ approach to development, China styles itself as leader of the global South and champion of a progressive international order.

 

 

[ANWAR]

China IS GOG AND MAGOG

[Valenteenah.]

^^ Ha ha.

[B]

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They are hidden behind the wall, in this case the himalayan mountains and Hindu Kush - which is one of criteria of recognising Gog and Magog. Of course this is geographically specific, the centre of the world being Arabia and Makkah being the eventual target of Gog and Magog.

 

Another criteria is that they will eat everything and drink everything. They are already drinking oil - in the form of buying oil and building refineries and building new dams like the three gorges dam to generate new energy. Also they will eat everything because of the large customer markets of china - well at least potentially as well as the foreign markets they seeks to control.

 

I am not sure of the other criterias. This could potentially mean that world will end around 2090-2120. If china is to be Gog and Magog they have to develop a new expansionist foreign policy and then spread it to far-flung parts of the world, but historically china has always been content to stay within its own borders.