Back in 1885, to much fanfare, the General Act of the Berlin Conference launched
the Scramble for Africa which saw the partition of the continent,
formerly a loose aggregation of various tribes, into the countries that
currently make up the southern continent, by the dominant superpowers
(all of them European) of the day. Subsequently Africa was pillaged,
plundered, and in most places, left for dead. The fact that a credit
system reliant on petrodollars never managed to take hold only
precipitated the "developed world" disappointment with Africa, no matter
what various enlightened, humanitarian singer/writer/poet/visionaries
claim otherwise. And so the continent languished. Until what we have
dubbed as the "Beijing Conference" quietly took place,
and to which only Goldman Sachs, which too has been quietly but very
aggressively expanding in Africa, was invited. As the map below from
Stratfor shows, ever since 2010, when China pledged over $100 billion to
develop commercial projects in Africa, the continent has now become de
facto Chinese territory. Because where the infrastructure spending has
taken place, next follow strategic sovereign investments, and other
modernization pathways, until gradually Africa is nothing but an annexed
territory for Beijing, full to the brim with critical raw materials,
resources and supplies.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/beijing-conference-see-how-china-quietly-took-over-africa
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