Zimbabwe's Mugabe welcomes Chinese tech investment China’s technology industry received an unexpected, and possibly unwelcome, piece of publicity on Thursday when Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe hailed the success of the “technology transfer” between the two countries. The Hitler moustache-fancying tyrant apparently thanked outgoing Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe, Xin …
To be fair, most Western companies don't care much about Human Rights either... so long as they don't get caught.
Giving Africans pittancy jobs can be easily rationalised in the same way that Westerners rationalise using cheap Chinese labour: it gives the people a better deal than not being there at all.
Perhaps more than anything this is just sour grapes. The predominant Western attituded is that Westerners should be doing the colonisation and exploitation. Who are these upstart Chinese to do this? Don't they know their place?
Does that stupid old git think he's getting it for nothing, surely the old tyrant's not going dopey in his old age? Can't wait for the Chinese to whip out the old tally book and tot up how much more it's going to cost the people of Africa in natural resources on top of what they've already got access to, to pay back all the "favours" granted them by the generous People's Republic!
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