Current Events > China now owns Uganda's only international airport

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https://thepostmillennial.com/ugandas-airport-chinese-control

Totally unbiased source. Super cereal.

Anyway, Uganda was like 'give me some money to make this airport better pls'. China was like 'lol, I know where this going'.

Then Uganda was like 'I cant afford this loan guys' and China was like 'Mines now, bitches'

Modern day Risk

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Think they have a few ports as well due to the same scam they pulled.

The fact that so many countries cooperate with China after all the underhanded stuff they pull is just astonishing.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

The fact that so many countries cooperate with China after all the underhanded stuff they pull is just astonishing.

Dont China own like half the major infrastructure in the US one way or another?

China is slowly taking over the entire world.

You just described what America and the IMF did to most South American countries

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

The fact that so many countries cooperate with China after all the underhanded stuff they pull is just astonishing.

It's not so much that they cooperate, it's that they don't really have a choice in the matter. They needed the money. If they had to gone to a western power it would have been something similar. Though in the case of the west it would have been "we'll give you money for the airport but in exchange we want [insert valuable mineral] mining rights for the next 100 years", then some company would have come in and killed a bunch of the locals by poisoning the environment while mining. Which is basically what we've done to all of south and central America.

China will basically do the same thing down the road, "if you would like for your people to use this airport, we want the rights to mine [insert mineral] from now till the end of time".

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Generally western aide comes with stipulations on anti corruption laws and democratic reforms. Whether these requests are realistic or not is debatable depending on the recipient country but China tends to offer aide with fewer obvious strings.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

The fact that so many countries cooperate with China after all the underhanded stuff they pull is just astonishing.

China is considered a more trustworthy investor than Western nations because they weren't involved in colonialism, in fact, China has a claim to being a victim of it too.

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furb posted...

Generally western aide comes with stipulations on anti corruption laws and democratic reforms. Whether these requests are realistic or not is debatable depending on the recipient country but China tends to offer aide with fewer obvious strings.

You just have to live with cooperating with a brutal dictatorship that kills all political opponents.

Not that many Western countries can speak since they also do business with China.

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AABLMD82 posted...

You just described what America and the IMF did to most South American countries

Old account with low karma and AMP coming in hot with the whataboutism

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_HayleyWilliams posted...

You just have to live with cooperating with a brutal dictatorship that kills all political opponents.

Not that many Western countries can speak since they also do business with China.

To be fair to the west, we kill better and more efficiently...if we feel like it

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Old account with low karma and AMP coming in hot with the whataboutism

In this case, aren't westerners just upset that they aren't the ones doing it?

Chuganda

Do they know the way?

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They've gotten a few mines in Africa that way too.

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like when has the west ever cared about Uganda or Africa in general? aside from resources?

And now you are upset that Uganda has an airport owned by China? Mad that its not some European nation that isn't doing it? Or the US?

Rayman2943 posted...

like when has the west ever cared about Uganda or Africa in general? aside from resources?

And now you are upset that Uganda has an airport owned by China? Mad that its not some European nation that isn't doing it? Or the US?

China own your ability to make a sig?

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

China own your ability to make a sig?

can you answer the question? When have westerners actually cared about Africa aside from resources?

AABLMD82 posted...

You just described what America and the IMF did to most South American countries

Now, was it good when they did that

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Rayman2943 posted...

can you answer the question? When have westerners actually cared about Africa aside from resources?

I cant. Its like you have no pants on. You're just a silly man making noise without it

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

I cant. Its like you have no pants on. You're just a silly man making noise without it

No. Not having a sig isn't an excuse. Its ok to say the CCP is trash. But you don't care about Africa as much as you are angry it isn't a western country doing this.

Rayman2943 posted...

No. Not having a sig isn't an excuse. Its ok to say the CCP is trash. But you don't care about Africa as much as you are angry it isn't a western country doing this.

You're making me blush. Please make yourself decent

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Better send more evangelical missionaries over there

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AngryNightmare posted...

The America of the cold war would never stand by and let this happen. What happened?

Too weak to challenge China militarily, and too unpopular to just involve themselves in an independent African countries business due to its negative history with colonialism

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

You're making me blush. Please make yourself decent

some guys get so mad when they realize white people aren't going to rule the world forever.

Good.

If you borrow money, you have to pay it back.
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Owning it is one thing. Holding it is another. See South Africa, Zimbabwe, etc.

what a shame

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Remember, it's not imperialism if it's not a western country doing it

/s ofc

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AngryNightmare posted...

The America of the cold war would never stand by and let this happen. What happened?

Capitalism

Ysmir posted...

Remember, it's not imperialism if it's not a western country doing it

/s ofc

but its not imperialism if a western country is doing it, its to help the natives.

/s

Rayman2943 posted...

but its not imperialism if a western country is doing it, its to help the natives.

/s

Weird strawman, considering I'm no defender of western imperialism.

You done stalking me yet?

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not until we fuck