China and Africa?

Regarding your articles on China and its role in Africa, all I have to say is: You've got to be joking! Are you people serious about human rights?

China seen as a positive force? I could analyze your articles, but I won’t waste my time as you people seem to have bought into the idea of using China as a model to replace the western one. Although I have been highly critical of the west's involvement for years in Africa, South America, and Asia, the governments of Asia are indeed following in their shoes in exploiting people.

I see no willingness to put people first in their dealings. Cast your eyes to Asia, to China and India's dealing in working in other countries. All eyes are on China now working in Africa, but they have a poor record in other Asian countries, especially Burma, a country sometimes referred to as the Africa of Asia, in which China sucks out everything it can get in short order.

China is just like the west, but possesses a frame of mind that the westerners had a hundred years ago, or even now - the same colonial mindset, especially in ethnocentrism on a massive scale. The Han Chinese, as well as the Japanese look down on people with dark skin, who are seen as beneath them. All I have seen in Asia is a complete disdain for foreigners, especially in East Asia, where there is a disdain for people from Southeast Asia.

I also have worked on the Burmese-Thai border with the human rights situation there. There is a war going on there, and the Chinese support the Burmese military junta by supplying them with all the weapons they need in exchange for resources such as gems, energy, timber, and others as do the Indians and the Thai, to annihilate the ethnic peoples there. There is massive displacement there, and the Chinese are the main suppliers of the weapons used by the Burmese military to kill, rape, maim, and torture people in the remote depths of the jungle.

The Koreans also supply weapons to the Burmese military junta as weapons are business, and they could care less about people's lives.

So wake up! South to South partnerships!! Stop living a damn fantasy land, it's all about the money.

Editors reply: "I could analyze your articles, but I won’t waste my time ...". Well, in which case we take it this is not an informed response. Perhaps if you did analyse the articles, the paper tiger you set up might be less easy to shoot at. Interesting that you say nothing of the US and British collusion with the Burmese junta ...