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2007-02-05 Africa Subsaharan

Chinese buy-up of Zambia revives old colonial fears

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 See also RESOURCEINVESTOR.com - China declares econ "Special Zone" in Zambia. West vs CHina - what went Right vs went wrong. More Chinese in Zambia and around Africa than Brits at the height of their Empire.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-05 00:52|| 2007-02-05 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 This could get interesting, Barclays aparently wants the farmland, now the Chinese are buying land, It looks to me, like a financial war is going to break out shortly

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 09:09|| 2007-02-05 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Let the bloody Chinese colonize the entire continent of Africa. It will only lead to their undoing.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-02-05 11:40|| 2007-02-05 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 " Africa now supplies a third of China's crude oil imports"

Follow the money (black gold).

The relationship between Zambia and China may have other benefits to China's overcrowding problems. China exports emigrants to Zambia while Zambia exports AIDS to China.

Posted by USMC6743 2007-02-05 15:20|| 2007-02-05 15:20|| Front Page Top

#5 B: Let the bloody Chinese colonize the entire continent of Africa. It will only lead to their undoing.

It depends. Successful colonization depends on two things - numbers and superior firepower. If China sent twenty million settlers into Zambia, which is about the size of Texas, it would triple Zambia's population while not appreciably putting a strain on its natural resources. And twenty million people wouldn't exactly depopulate China.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-02-05 15:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-02-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 USMC: The relationship between Zambia and China may have other benefits to China's overcrowding problems.

China's not overcrowded - its population density is about a third that of most of Western Europe, and 1/60 of highly-prosperous Hong Kong. It's just been badly run since the Communist victory in 1949.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-02-05 15:29|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-02-05 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Simple solution, A chinese non-communist style of government, Bawahahaha. Sorry, have to catch my breath. couldn't hold a straight face any longer.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 15:39|| 2007-02-05 15:39|| Front Page Top

#8 What's interesting is that the WSJ ran a similar story a week ago. Interesting where the Grauniad is getting its material.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-02-05 16:12|| 2007-02-05 16:12|| Front Page Top

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