Insight: China in Africa and the Middle East
A balanced debate on China's influence globally - constructive or destructive?
Mike Robinson speaks to Matthew Ehret, Isa Blumi and Vanessa Beeley about China's role in Africa and the Middle East.
Matthew is a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow, editor in chief of the Canadian Patriot Review and co-founder of the Rising Tide Foundation. He has written the three-volume Clash of the Two Americas and the four-volume Untold History of Canada series.
Isa Blumi (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Stockholm University) researches societies in the throes of social, economic, and political transformation. He compares how European imperialist projects in the Islamic world intersected with, and were thus informed by, events within those societies. His research into such processes have resulted in numerous articles and books, including Ottoman Refugees, 1878–1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) and Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia tells us about the World (University of California Press, 2018).
Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist, peace activist, photographer and regular UK Column contributor.
LINK TO VIDEO HERE.
Seems to me Blumi is not able to see the obvious.....Wherever China goes, despite their autocratic system ATM (Which:- a) I abhor & b) the west also has, though more unobserved) they have benefited the other various nations & peoples.....with construction & development .(& perhaps also do it on a grand scale)...eg China (or Deng was it) raised hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty & lack of education etc nest ce pas?......now also seems to me for past 70 yrs, apart from v few exceptions, wherever "the West" (Read the War & private profiteers) have gone in so much of the world destruction, repression, suppression of development & just plain evil tyranny has occurred, any takers to argue this? So the west seems all about murder, theft & deception ...via Wars & "interventions”…have followed nest ce pas? The important thing for Blumi to note is the Wester money has by & large gone into wars & destruction...& the Chinese money that he is so suspicious of has gone into construction & development. Who cares if a railroad in Africa is built by the Chinese if the locals benefit? It's als important to note I live in Australia & we have a huge amount of Chinese immigration here & by & large they are the finest folks you will find! Contrast this with so many western businessmen & cooperates all about "screwing someone” in a zero sum game & gloating about it? I think it's very simple TRADE = Friendship=Peace=Global development......& that's the last thing the v, v few Money lender Cabal & monopolists want...they want a monopoly on Capital to use & have power over the slaves!! Let’s hate China/Putin is just another "War ruse" for private power & profit! More manufactured crises…Stupid stuff! How do I know, simple ATM just what what what China does & not what west tells everybody...watch what they do too! Always be prepared..if China becomes "Territorially aggressive" cross that bridge then. Until then "friendship & trade is the way to go"!
Here's more information on China from a Canadian who has lived in China recently and who's ancestors are from China. Tings Chak did significant research on China's 10 year successful effort to eliminate extreme poverty in China.
Lifting over 800 million people out of poverty over the 10 years. That's over twice the population of the USA.
Ting's report - Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China - July 23, 2021
https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-socialist-construction/
Here is a link to a 58 minute show with Ting describing her report and recent visits to modern day China.
How China Ended Extreme Poverty - The World Can Too - 58 minute show for local public TV stations to broadcast -
https://odysee.com/@FilmForJustice:1/aFJ-8926-BWFD-091---China-Ends-Poverty
Anyone interested in hearing about China who has been there recently can contact her for an interview or further information and other contacts that actually knows China.
Enjoy the days, and the fine work you are doing - very useful. -- Syria, recent Ukraine report ...