Video: Bloomberg debunk the myth and fake news propaganda by US & EU on the Chinese Debt Trap in Africa 彭博社揭穿美國和歐盟對非洲中國債務陷阱的神話和假新聞宣傳
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley:
Thanks for calling my attention to the Bloomberg piece on China’s work in Africa. I agree with your comments on this Bloomberg report on China’s African investments. It is a rare departure from Qwar’a anti-China propaganda disguised as news. The West has essentially two major criticisms on China’s investments in Africa: they are debt traps and neocolonialism. Both my opinion, reflect West’s guilty past. They simply could not see anything but projecting their own past on China. Their aim is to smear China’s cooperative and positive projects with African countries and to undermine China’s influence in Africa.
The Western governments and their mainstream media try to convince the world that China has been doing exactly the same as the former European colonizers in Africa, if not than their colonial exploitation of African countries. Unfortunately, their propaganda campaign is being contradicted by facts on he ground. The facts, the concrete outcomes of Chinese investments, speak louder than the Western falsehoods and negative propaganda against China. African leaders have been speaking out against the lies being spread around the world and in Africa.
As long as the Western media continue to dominate and control the news and information around the world, including Africa, there is nothing China can do to counter their lies. CGTN of China has been doing an outstanding job in reporting news, documentaries, and programs daily through regular programming from African countries by African journalists, allowing African voices to be heard. This, in itself, has been an outstanding contribution from the Chinese government to Africa and, I must add, to the Chinese viewers across China through CCTV. This, however, is not enough because Western governments and media are simply too powerful and overwhelming. Nevertheless, what China has been doing is getting attention from the Western governments and they are trying to do something about it.
A very powerful counter-message in recent years has appeared in greater frequency. That message is: China-African cooperation which began at the dawn of the 21st century, has produced positive and welcome results, especially in infrastructures, education, science, and health care that affect African lives throughout the continent. The results speak for themselves. They are the most powerful testimonies of what is being done. These results have forced the U.S. and the West in recent years to start noticing and even better, copying the Chinese model in infrastructure building in Africa in an effort to win over the hearts and minds of African people. What President Biden said in the Bloomberg video is precisely that. (By the way, Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar investment in U.S. infrastructure is a carbon copy of what China’s has been doing in China in the last 30 years and guess what, he justified such massive expenditure as the need for the U.S. to match what China has accomplished). Europeans too are trying to imitate China and do the same in Africa. Why not? This can only be good for Africa, as long as their efforts are not attempts to revive and replicate their colonial past in Africa.
China welcomes Western competition in working with African countries for the betterment and benefit of Africans! I am keeping my fingers crossed, however.
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I am serbian . I have lived in african countries as a child because my father works in embassy. One thing I can tell you before chinese investments no one cared about africa they just looted resources the western countries especially France looted much from north and west Africa.a Things like gold,diamond and other natural resources like lithium with help of corrupted african political. As I remember living in africa there were no malls,big shopping complexes,proper infrastructure and connectivity like trains,bus in cities but slowly after chinese investments Things changed fastly internet was introduced in large scale by chinese companies which helped other locals also get internet,malls were built ,brands came in africa many trains and ports projects were introduced all across africa and many more industrial and commercial services increased. I Have learned about chinese debt trap policy but it is far better than western countries one sided trades which always destroyed and looted africa.
I grew up in 90s, And my country was so poor under Western Aid. Since China came in, things have changed a lot. In 10 years the skyline had changed and a middle class has sprung. People are climbing out of poverty, and my generation is wealthier than my parents. China has been a blessing to Africa. The west is scared, because a stronger Africa will mean they’ll lose the last colonial grasp over the continent. It’s economy.I’m not a fan of China but if there’s no debt trap, then I’m happy. Happy to be wrong all along. I’m so used to hard line anti-china stuff that this video feels wierd Debunking myths you helped spread in the first place. Congrats. There’s the thing you only have one example, which you continually repeat, whereas China has 3700 projects in the developing world, from construction to power to IT telecoms. Statistically your one example represents a 0.001% chance of occurrence.
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