September 21, 2007

• Mind-Blowing, I Know...

  IOZ:
  

  Kaplan makes some other points, all of them equally nutty. In particular, he notes that a major reason for the creation of an African Command by the US military was to "keep an eye on China’s growing web of development projects across the sub-Saharan regions." This is nutty because China has made no secret--indeed, it's been remarkably open--about its plans and intentions in Africa. China is buying influence, one road and one dam at a time. It is openly, incrementally, and plainly pursuing a development agenda in hopes of securing advantageous trade arrangements with nations rich in natural resources, geographic importance, strategic influence, etc. There's nothing nefarious, underhanded, or secretive about this. This is the way that nations conduct their business. Unless the nation is the United States, which conducts its business by failing as an occupying colonial power.

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