Comment by metalman
6 hours ago
Then you will agree that by having China stepping in to raise the standard of living across the whole developing world, we can expect a significant reduction in the drive to have children by impoverished and uneducated populations in africa and elsewhere as basic utilities and services become normal.
China is a nation state that absolutely looks out for themselves first and foremost. They will invest as long as it is profitable for them and they can gain land and benefits. They are not supplying free food and education to Africa. Incidentally, much maligned Russia was the nation who did so free for nearly 2 years when Africa was in trouble.
china is stepping in with access to technology, products like cell phones solar panels and infastructure, roads, rail, shipping ports, education programs, special trading zones where ANYBODY can show up in china, by ship and buy wholsale, no questions asked, medical equipment, etc ,etc, China is giving nothing away....except huge margins , which in China are honed to hard razor sharp edges, plus the fuckers are crazy, they will let you! set the price, and fight each other finding a way to deliver, africa and the rest of the devolping world is loving this, real oportunity, a chance to compete,and establish supply chains, that go BOTH WAYS, completly unlike the exploitive resource extraction models still bieng imposed by colonial countrys