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Source : China and Africa: The Real Story of Western Hypocrisy (2 December 2021)

(Minutes 06: 37 to 08: 43)

I think we need to understand the history of how the West behaved in colonialism. How about various empires such as England, Holland, France, United States for some time with developing countries like the Philippines and Puerto Rico and others. How the relationship between them is made. That's a far different from what China is doing today.

In the years of classical colonial Western colonialism from the 1800s to the 1900s, countries that were included as part of the colonial empire were incorporated into large economic structures centered on the colonial state, for example England. England is the center of manufacturing industry. The center of modern manufacturing, industry and technology. And all the colonies are subordinate to it. So they become where raw materials are made which will be sent back to England, processed and developed there, turned into finished goods. Which were then sent out to the colonies where they received good trade agreements. And the colonies became a source of raw materials and became a channel for the manufacture of goods. It is something basic and really a schematic appearance to understand the relationship.

The difference is in how China pursues its development projects, they are also interested as you say, "This is not a charity program, this is not a global giving program, this is a program created to help China develop its domestic economy to improve the living standards of 1.4 billion people. And it's also done by fostering the local economic development of cooperating countries around the world" - Professor Ken Hammond, Professor of History at the University of New Mexico



I think the historical legacy of colonial colonialism is not just how it went. When the colonial empire existed until the liberation movement in the 1960s in liberating Africa from European colonization. And that legacy still endures. Britain, France and the United States continued to attack militarily in many countries on the "African" continent. Fighting in Nigeria, Mali, Chad, as well as the involvement of NATO and the United States in Libya is a grave violation of the national sovereignty of the countries of the "African" continent. So this legacy is still happening. And the idea or saying that the United States, Britain and other European countries accuse China is funny. Due to the fact that Western colonialism is still happening today. Arbitrary development by political units for example Kenya's state politics. You know, there was no country for British colonization, and the British got together with the previous communities and said, "You're going to be British East Africa". When they're independent, political arbitrariness continues to complicate Kenyan political life until now. So European colonialism. and its devastating consequences for African society and its economy continue to this day. The talk of changing and accusing China of neo-colonialism, becoming the new colonial occupier of Africa is absurd. That is an example of ridiculous claims made by rivals politics in Uganda. About the Chinese state seizing the airport, they have no real basis. And they use anything to make China look ugly. And it's worth remembering that the original news media reports outside Africa about this were made in connection with the Conservative Party BJP in India, there is a political agenda here that fulfills the interests of or Africans to vilify China. But the People's Republic of China has a long history of helping African countries starting in the 1970s when China was still struggling to build its early-stage economy, by sending its people to Africa. Ranging from engineers, volunteers, workers of all kinds of expertise to build large railroads in Tanzania, Zambia. Involved in various development projects. And their work has now been restored and expanded with China's Belt and Road initiative and other activities.

And you know that usually the Western media and mainstream media will catch any news that can be passively used to vilify China. While not seeing other stories about development, infrastructure, and educational opportunities. You know China doesn't just invest in railroads, roads and airports. They make sports stadiums, hospitals, infrastructure. The things that China is doing, when I show China as a great philanthropist and philanthropist, and the projects that China hopes to benefit them in the long term will become part of the trade network of exchanges, and the development of the world. And China is becoming the beneficiary, but more equally benefiting in the process. It's not just development focused on China.

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