Comments on China in Africa: The Real Story: China's Foreign Aid: The Economist still doesn't g...

from the Economist opening paragraph: 'The C...

2012-02-06T07:25:19.221-05:00

from the Economist opening paragraph:

'The Chinese elite sees the world in terms of brutal competition for limited resources'.

You've got to ask 'as opposed to'...?

Great blog article ! The Economist is hopelessly b...

2012-01-29T22:02:14.637-05:00

Great blog article ! The Economist is hopelessly biased so no surprises there.

Are we supposed to take a magazine once dubbed Afr...

2012-01-29T21:15:03.030-05:00

Are we supposed to take a magazine once dubbed Africa as "The Hopeless Continent" seriously?

let me know when they write articles on The Economist, not from a race obsessed view but from a balanced and well researched angle.

Reading your blog is always refreshing after readi...

2012-01-26T10:32:03.309-05:00

Reading your blog is always refreshing after reading so much misleading information from the western news agencies every day! --Jinghao Lu

Of course The Economist is in the fear mongering b...

2012-01-25T11:24:59.094-05:00

Of course The Economist is in the fear mongering business. what they don't realize is how little Africans and China care about the opinions of increasingly irrelevant and completely biased outlets like The Economist. The west's obsession with China is quite creepy and there's nothing that scares it more than the relationship b/n China and Africa. in an increasingly complicated world where Africans and others no longer care for the west it's fascinating to see how the west is handling it within the context of its past history.

This is something that I feel will change for cert...

2012-01-24T00:41:43.243-05:00

This is something that I feel will change for certain in the coming decades - this flow of culture and ideas, and more importantly business, will stop being a one way street.

The Chinese seem to be in a hurry to win this world, but can they succeed when they don't believe in the very tenets that make a modern society - freedom of the individual, freedom of the press and freedom of speech?

so who to believe? the economist article seemed t...

2012-01-22T21:54:41.622-05:00

so who to believe?

the economist article seemed to have a consistent pov (if not a fear-mongering agenda)

what i find curious is that most writing on china in africa is all about plotting, scheming, strategizing, they are smart, west is dumb .. whereas to me it is simply the continuation of the natural spread of ideas and influence through the world, similar to the one called westernization ..

nature is globalized, after all