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[h=Ivan Molero]3[/h]1 day ago
@RIVen burg Africa is actually welcoming the Chinese and is eager to cooperate with them. Things get built efficiently and function and with no political strings attached. African countries have longstanding experience of dealing with the IMF, World Bank, and other financial institutions of the collective west. They know very well how collwestern imperialism and colonisation works and are making an active and informed choice, preferring China.
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[h=Ivan Molero]3[/h]1 day ago
@Rhonda Bower It is interesting to observe the way the Americans perceive and treat even one of their supposedly closest allies. I am talking about Australia. But let's hear it from the mouth of american professor Mearsheimer during a debate about Australias role in a US-China conflict: "You want to understand the United States as a ruthless great power, it does not tolerate peer competitors. Now the question is, what does this all mean for Australia? Ah, you’re in a quandary for sure. Everybody knows what the quandary is. And by the way, you’re not the only country in East Asia that’s in this quandary. You trade a lot with China and that trade is very important for your prosperity, no question about that. And securitywise, you really want to go with us, it makes just a lot more sense. And you understand that security is more important than prosperity? Because if you don’t survive, you’re not going to prosper. Survival is of the utmost importance, cause you cannot pursue any other goals if you don’t survive. So security has got to be number one. So you’ll sacrifice prosperity for security. That’s what will happen. That’s why you’ll be with us. Now. some people say there is an alternative, you can go with China. You have a choice here, you can go with China rather than the United States. There’s two things I’ll say about that. Number one, if you go with China, you want to understand you are our enemy. You are then deciding to become an enemy of the United States. Because again, we’re talking about an intense security competition, you’re either with us or against us. And if you’re trading extensively with China and you’re friendly with China, you’re undermining the United States in the security competition, you’re feeding the beast from our perspective and that is not going to make us happy. And when we are not happy, you do not want to underestimate how nasty we can be, just ask Fidel Castro. ... You want to come over to the western hemisphere, go down to Central America, go down to South America, and ask those countries down there how they like living with the United States of America. We have a rich history of doing horrible things in South and Central America. I’m glad from an american perspective that we’re a hegemon. But I’ll tell you, from the perspective of our neighbors it doesn’t look like a happy story. ... And then finally, there’s this argument that you can sit on the sidelines. Well, are you going to trade with the Chinese while you sit on the sidelines? Yes, you are! You’re not going to just sit there and be an isolated country, fortress Australia, you’re going to be trading, you’re highly dependent on trade with China. That’s just another way of saying you’re not going to be neutral, you’re going to be in bed with the Chinese. And again, that’s not going to make the Americans happy." (John Mearsheimer, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago; excerpt from a debate between Mearsheimer and Hugh White, professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, August 2019, at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), Sydney, Australia).
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