Oublious
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We all read on the internet and watch on the TV how China is building Africa. But we don´t now the whole picture of ther games in Africa. The low quality roads what won´t survive 10 years, they build roads and suck all ther resources in exchange.
From outsider it looks perfect but what happens we go deeper?
According to African websites.
https://qz.com/africa/1326618/china-is-building-expensive-roads-in-uganda/
In Ugande China made a highway what cost a kilometer 9.3 million dollar, in the article it is descriped, we put our analyze not on the price tag but the construction of the contracts.
This is the same logic and system of capitalism but on steroids. They are killing the local companies, and in exchange the African countries are giving ther resources almost for nothing. We are living in the 21 century, are ther still countries stealing from Africa? White man and slave companies?
Wowwww....
Now the quality check of marbel Chinese engineering in Africa....
https://www.tesfanews.net/poorly-constructed-addis-ababa-roads-falling-apart/
Another one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2010/07/100707_angolahospital.shtml
And the list go on...
From outsider it looks perfect but what happens we go deeper?
According to African websites.
https://qz.com/africa/1326618/china-is-building-expensive-roads-in-uganda/
In Ugande China made a highway what cost a kilometer 9.3 million dollar, in the article it is descriped, we put our analyze not on the price tag but the construction of the contracts.
The expensive road is just the icing on the cake for Chinese contractors in the country. Analyzing the data for 48 national road contracts issued in the past decade, Quartz found that 70% of the funding went to Chinese contractors and only 4% to locally incorporated firms.
This is the same logic and system of capitalism but on steroids. They are killing the local companies, and in exchange the African countries are giving ther resources almost for nothing. We are living in the 21 century, are ther still countries stealing from Africa? White man and slave companies?
Nonetheless, Uganda’s taxpayers are footing the bill and will be on the hook for a growing pile debt being used to build roads. But the local construction industry is not getting a piece of the action nor is it developing the capacity to maintain these roads. Instead, most of the funding is going to Chinese contractors. Half of the funds that built these roads came directly from the Ugandan government coffers. For about a decade now, Uganda between 10% to 23% of Ugandan public expenditure has gone to roads and other transport infrastructure. Much of the half of the funding is debt taken on behalf of the Ugandan taxpayer.
However, more than road contractors will ask for preferential policies. Private Chinese entrepreneurs (from petty traders to mining magnets) have poured into Ugandan markets, stirring up competitive resentment from their local counterparts. In April 2017, local traders in down town Kampala closed their shops for days, protesting what they called unfair competition from Chinese & Indian traders. Data from publications of the Uganda Investment Authority indicate that China is the country’s top source of foreign direct investment. Between July 2013 and June 2016, Chinese projects amounted to 32% of the country’s foreign direct investment.
The Ugandan engineers who lobbying for reinstatement of the reservation, are not getting much audience from the authorities. With Chinese dominance growing across the entire economy, the government appears to have decided that protecting local industry is neither sustainable nor compatible with its free market stance.
Wowwww....
Now the quality check of marbel Chinese engineering in Africa....
https://www.tesfanews.net/poorly-constructed-addis-ababa-roads-falling-apart/
Another one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2010/07/100707_angolahospital.shtml
And the list go on...