Africa : Africa Should Consider China Example ?

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China sets out foreign restrictions

November 8, 2007 - 7:49AM

China issued on Wednesday a new set of guidelines for foreign direct investment, detailing sectors in which it will either promote, restrict or ban foreign investment.

The guidelines, which take effect on December 1, update the existing set, issued in late 2004.

For example, while China will now bar foreigners from projects mining rare minerals or those that are non-renewable, it will continue to encourage them to put money into difficult mines or those in under-invested areas.

Foreigners will also be prohibited from investing in small and mid-sized refineries.

Foreign firms will now be banned from building or managing golf courses; in the past, they fell into the restricted category.

The new regulations also state that foreign companies will be banned from investing in news websites, internet audio-visual services and web cafes.


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China is potent indeed. on all counts. e.g. they no longer allow "overweight" people to adopt their orphans, most chinese born in the diaspora attend chinese school from day one - but it is too late to take them as an example. They are taking over, simply put, and with ease.

Not a member of the G8, they have embraced, and prepared themselves very well for their "go global" policy. they are picking up all the "high risk" investments in Africa, pushing out huge loans as if they free, opening multinational corps from Cape To Cairo - taking thousands of African students to China to study.. they are seriously on a mission to control resources to support their own nation.

But is China doing anything that the euro hasnt done already?

sigh.

I dont know if Africa should consider the Chinese as an example. I dont know enough about Chinese history to understand what they went through, as a people, to get the the point where they are powerful enough to turn their noses up at the rest of the world. I think of Mugabe, who is considered a madman - but if he kept his borders closed for a hundred+ years, would Zimbabwe become the most self-sufficient, powerful country in Africa?

If there is going to be any African unity in the future, it will need to be done by force - there are too many fingers in the pot giving noone time to *think* let alone develop a "unified mindset" as an African Continental - and that is what the Chinese have - or at least those that are allowed to leave. If I knew how they got it, then I'd be able to answer your question :)

sigh... the magnitude of it all. I still have so much to learn.
 
Sister Zulile ... what you've shared makes so much sense.

I guess our Beloved Africa has got so many folk in her business (China included), it's not the same as China.

It's logical that one would not let another come in their home, and take their most valued possessions, or put a stop to it asap.

This may be some wishful (and late) thinking on my part.

Thanks for sharing.

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Destee
 
I have to agree with Zulile here. We know too little about China's past to say if the route they have chosen would best suit our people. Albeit, I have toa dmit I admire how they have manuevered whereas things are carried out under their terms and their terms alone. I also I admire that while so many cultures around the world arre losing themselves to Europenized culture and way of think that they have manage to hold on to their culture and individuality. I do however, think this is something to be watched to see how it plays out in the end. Will their efforts backfire or is this just what the doctor ordered.
 
I have sort of consumed some of China’s history over the years, but never really focused on a comparative analysis of China and Africa.

As you know, China has had a long history of being raped and devastated by everyone from the Mongols, to the Japanese, to the British. And remember, Mao was also viewed as a madman and tyrant by the west, and socialism as well as nationalism was akin to “socio-political demonism”. And as you know, even until this day since the communist revolution, China has played hardball internally, and with the rest of the world to keep and protect its focus, as it attempted to keep its goals on point without a lot of cultural, political, or ideological diversity. Its obvious China’s leaders believed, “they had to do what they had to do” to make it an independent superpower, both economically and militarily and it looks like it has paid off.

Now, is all well in China when we consider the lives of the average Chinese citizen? I guess the Chinese would say, “related to what” historically, when one thinks about what foreign intervention had done to this country when it brought in “foreign ideas” that were exercised at the expense and exploitation of the Chinese.

I think if we look closer at China’s various dynastic periods, and to what degree did some of it’s past cultural, linguistic, and philosophical congruency in various chapters of it’s development help give the Chinese a more collective mindset, we may start to see certain underlining socio-constructs that were later workable and useful for China as a whole, that have never been present in the broader African continent. With that said, I do think it’s healthy to make a probing and in-depth critique of China, and even India to see how national interest can be solidified on such a grand scale, and what can we learn in part from their newfound economic growth, for these countries were also colonized or subjugated by European powers much like the African continent.


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