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African Union Conference Center, Chinese Netizen Reactions

by on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 89 comments comments

Aerial photo of the African Union Conference Center.

From NetEase:

Chinese aided African Union Conference Center inaugurated, at a cost of 200 million USD

January 28th, the African Union (AU) Conference Center that was constructed with Chinese government assistance was inaugurated in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The African Union Conference Center is one of China’s key construction aid projects for Africa, the undertaking costing 200 million USD, as well as the the Chinese government’s largest African construction aid project following the Tanzania-Zambia Railway.

[Above] This is the exterior view of the African Union Conference Center located in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa (taken 2012 January 28th). The 18th African Union Summit meeting will be held in this conference center. Photo: Xinhua reporter Ding Haitao.

Exterior view of the African Union Conference Center.

This is the exterior view of the African Union Conference Center located in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.

Interior view of the African Union Conference Center in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa.

This is the interior view of the African Union Conference Center located in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.

A spiraling staircase inside the African Union Conference Center in Ethiopia.

A conference room in the African Union Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This is the small conference room inside the African Union Conference Center located in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.

A conference room in the African Union Conference Center in Ethiopia.

This is the VIP conference room inside Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa’s African Union Conference Center.

A hallway inside the African Union Conference Center which was built with Chinese assistance.

This is the interior view of the African Union Conference Center.

Several workers walking down a grand staircase in the newly inaugurated African Union Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Inside the African Union Conference Center in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, several workers on the stairs.

Several African women chatting in the lobby of the newly built African Union Conference Center.

At the African Union Conference Center in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, several workers relaxing in the main hall.

A view from a window of the African Union Conference Center, built with Chinese aid.

This is the interior view of the African Union Conference Center.

CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin addresses the African Union during the inauguration ceremony of the African Union Conference Center built with Chinese assistance.

January 28th, CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin attended and delivered a speech at the inauguration of the African Union Conference Center in Addis Ababa. Photo: Xinhua reporter Rao Aimin.

CPPCC Chairman Jia Qinglin hands the symbolic golden key of the new African Union Conference Center built with Chinese assistance to African Union Chairperson Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

This is Chairman Jia Qinglin handing over the symbolic golden key of the African Union Conference Center during a ceremony to African Union rotating Chairperson and Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

Comments from NetEase:

网易北京市网友:

I really want a house/apartment to live in.

乞丐太子 [网易安徽省芜湖市网友]：

1.2 billion yuan renminbi [RMB], our black brothers must be laughing to death! Sigh!

等待火山爆发 [网易浙江省衢州市网友]：

Yeah, much prettier than the schools in China, ding.

网易江苏省苏州市网友:

China is “really” prosperous.

mark56959273 [网易上海市南汇区网友]：

Wow…so luxurious~

网易河南省手机网友:

Honestly, in Africa, the foreigners you can see, most are Chinese. That time when people were evacuated from Libya, there were 30,000 Chinese.

wiscomsin [网易湖南省衡阳市网友]：

I even gave over 1 kuai in construction aid/assistance.

lygyanyang [网易江苏省网友]：

The children at home express that they need care and attention.

zjm11188 [网易北京市网友]：

Construction aid? China has money…however whether or not they dare to use it [the building] is uncertain.

网易中国手机网友:

1.3 billion renminbi [RMB]!

汉武威公 [网易上海市网友]： (responding to above)

Equivalent to each one of us paying 1 kuai.

网易吉林省长春市网友： (responding to above)

It’s been many years since our wages were increased.

汉武威公 [网易上海市网友]： (responding to above)

Not only haven’t our wages increased, they’ve even decreased.

网易湖北省荆门市网友: (responding to above)

1.3 trillion American debt is equivalent to each of us providing how much money?

tx7250 [网易北京市网友]:

First I BS those people complaining, typical ignorance. China providing aid to Africa was a national policy that was established when Chariman Mao was still around, because without Africa’s support, it would not have been possible for China to become a permanent member state of the United Nations Security Council. What more, providing aid to Africa is even more invaluable to China whether it is in political influence, strategic interests, or collection of resources, and it has a powerful role in suppressing China’s largest potential enemy — Japan. From 2008 to 2011, Japan committed to providing 6 billion USD in long-term low-interest loans to Africa, to be used in the road, transportation, and other infrastructure construction projects; and said before 2012 that it would double its aid to African governments from its current yearly 180 billion JPY to 400 billion JPY (3.8 billion USD) in 2012. What needs to be pointed out is, in recent years, Japan has been consistently reducing its aid to foreign governments. Japan’s leadership has said “Africa holds ab abundance of natural resources. Japan’s long-term investment in Africa will inevitably produce abundant returns in the future.”

Compatriots, Japan is currently competing with China for Africa, and some people are still ignorantly complaining about our country’s policies. Yes, the country domestically needs development, but what point is there to develop the country domestically if it is in a situation where there is no guarantee of even national security? Only when China’s strategic interests and security in the world is safeguarded can it build the country even better.

sisishe [网易黑龙江省哈尔滨市网友]： (responding to above)

If it is aid then there shouldn’t be any utility. Assistance with one’s benefits in mind is called political investment.

scott516888 [网易广东省网友]： (responding to above)

Interactions between countries has always been about mutual benefit. Above, you’re a stupid cunt, you only know how to nitpick. You criticize those who aid others without considering their own interests and benefits as idiots, and those who consider their long-term interests and benefits you criticize as utilitarianism. What is it that you want? Why do you carp like those Western powers who want to contain China? What the hell are you?

网易山西省大同市网友： (responding to above)

First I BS this Beijing netizen [referring to tx7250 above]: Know why everyone is complaining? It’s because this kind of thing, whether its called aid/assistance or political investment, is not the actual will of the people, just like being forced to donate. Do you understand? You using those political things to distort the people’s complaints, aren’t you being a little too ignorant? Moreover, has the world only changed a little bit since Chairman Mao’s time? The rules of communication between countries have changed a lot. Don’t try to defend the government’s incompetence, okay? Also, “but what point is there to develop the country domestically if it is in a situation where there is no guarantee of even national security?”—-May I ask if you don’t develop yourself, how can you going to fundamentally safeguard your safety? You’re must be so confused for you to be able to argue this kind of logic. Laughable. I didn’t want to say anything, but seeing so many netizens seemingly rebuked into silence by you, I had to say something.

zhenmeico [网易广西南宁市网友]：

Every year China gives about 11 billion RMB in foreign aid (reported in NPC reports).
For a country that takes in 10 trillion RMB in revenue every year, the proportion of funds used for foreign aid is not even 0.1%!
Imagine an adult who makes 50,000 yuan per year taking out 50 yuan to help a friend, its no big deal!

What do you think? Do you agree with or disagree with your home country’s foreign aid policies?

  • Jesus

    In future conflicts will happen over not Middle East but Africa.

    • Bruce Tutty

      Not even close, it will be about ocean farming and mineral rights.

      • mr. weiner

        ..and water sources

        • Tengu

          Bingo……

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Helllooooo South China Sea! Purchase stocks in life preservers now!

  • Bruce Tutty

    BAU = Business as usual

    No people around the world currently have any real say in what their government does.

  • Interested

    Equal to ancient monuments, as a way of advertisment, it is quite cheap with almost no time limitation.

  • mr. weiner

    Overheard conversation between Jia Qinglin to Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo [12th photo from top].
    “Who’s your daddy?”

  • donscarletti

    “because without Africa’s support, it would not have been possible for China to become a permanent member state of the United Nations Security Council.”

    *Sigh*

    When China became a permanent member state of the United Nations Security Council, only 2 African countries has black heads of state (Ethiopia and Liberia). Basically it was Roosevelt’s idea. When the PRC became China’s representative on the UN, the seat on the council just came with it.

    • hanyucha

      Originally China wooed all these African nations just so they could block Taiwan’s ascension to the UN. In the fifties and sixties the two really started throwing money around. African nations played the two. Nigeria switched around a whole bunch of times depending on who was offering the best deal.

    • wu lmao

      When the UN was founded, Roosevelt was dead, and Truman was President.

      The UN Security Council was established with rotating geographical seats for fairness along with 5 permanent seats to the essential “victors” of WW2: The US, the UK, Russia, France and China. France and China were obviously on a different tier from the three main allies who won the war, but were given seats as historical great powers who were aligned with the victorious sides: France with the Western liberal democracies, China on the verge of civil war being virtually entirely occupied by the Soviets but still nominally governed by the Kuomingtang, the government of the fledgling capitalist-democratic Republic of China. The capitalist ROC, eventually pushed out of mainland China altogether and governing essentially only Taiwan, was actually given the permanent seat on the original UN Security Council, not the Communist PRC.

      This changed under the Nixon administration with he and Henry Kissinger’s outreach to communist China as leverage against the Soviet Union. One of the men primarily responsible was actually George H. W. Bush, who was later director of the CIA and then elected President in 1988. When Nixon was President, Bush was the United States’ ambassador to the UN, and in charge of the US position to potentially block recognition of the PRC as the “legitimate” China instead of the capitalist ROC because of the USA’s permanent member veto rights. There was no veto, political quids were pro quo’d, and the PRC was recognized, taking over Taiwan’s permanent member seat.

      this is not an argument against you, just a brief historical lesson for anyone who’s interested in what you’re referring to. It is true, however, that many of the African states voted in favor of the PRC’s admission and removal of the ROC, without which the PRC may not have taken over the permanent seat on the council.

      • donscarletti

        I assure you, in the two months between Roosevelt’s death and the signing of the UN Charter in June 1945, the US position regarding the Security Council did not change greatly, in fact as I understand it, the charter (which specified this) was already written at this point. He was the guy who pushed the other 3 for China’s inclusion whether he was live or dead when it was signed.

        • wu lmao

          as I said, it wasn’t an argument, more of a historical lesson in context.

          If it weren’t for African nations’ support of the PRC being the “legitimate” China, along with some backroom dealing and realpolitik from the Nixon administration, then China would not have its position on the security council, as Taiwan would have retained its permanent seat.

          • DRaY

            “Legitimate” … LoL… I love history.

        • JSFN

          Regarding the issue of the role played by Africa at the UN in October 1971, I’d like to share with you (and agreeing with Wu Lmao in his last paragraph) a paragraph of a paper that am presently writing on Inter-party relations between the CCP and an African ruling party. Enjoy:

          Interestingly, it was during this “critical” (Cultural Revolution, 1966-76) period that the PRC won back its seat at the General Assembly of United Nations and automatically replaced Taiwan at the Security Council by Resolution 2758 (XXVI) of October 25th, 1971.(1) This was a very important diplomatic victory for China. A large number of African States played a crucial role for the readmission of China (until then held by Taiwan). According to Ian Taylor, out of the 76 votes cast in favour of China 26 were from African countries.(2) Wang Xuejun cites Mao Zedong’s recognition of the African vote: “It is African brothers who literally carry us to the UN”.(3)

          (1). United Nations Organisation. “United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, 25 October 1971”, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Resolution-2758.png, [14/11/2011]
          (2). Taylor, Ian (2006). China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise. London/New York: Routledge, p. 12.
          (3). Wang, Xuejun (2009). “Sino-African Political Cooperation: Approaching Common Revival and Development.” In. Liu Hongwu & Yang Jiemian. Fifity Years of Sino-African Cooperation: Background, Progress and Significance – Chinese Perspectives on Sino-African Relations. Kunming: Yunnan University Press, p. 326.

  • hanyucha

    So I go to Qinghua University where I study for an MA. I worked for two years so I could have enough money to go there. I am from the UK, but I am not rich. 120,000 yuan for two years. Expensive, but not as expensive as the UK.

    Anyway, I tried applying for the scholarship for the second year which is just 30,000 yuan. My grades are all in the high nineties and I had six recommendation letters from professors. All I wanted was 30,000 yuan for my scholarship.

    The fund was for one million yuan, which I found out went to pay for eight full two year scholarships, and one partial scholarship. These of course all went to people from “developing nations”, i.e. African nations.

    Now, don’t get me wrong, I love my classmates and they are lots of fun, and while I do admit that they do come from developing nations, most of them are absolutely stinking rich already. China ignores the UK these days.

    Chinese cannot imagine there are poor people in the UK. Africa is on the rise, and the Chinese government can smell the money. The scholarships and the development programmes, they are all going to pay off big one day.

    Irony is you come from a developing country and people will throw money at you. You some from a developed country and you have to put in some serious graft to make a living. I don’t expect anything from China any more.

    • DRaY

      £12k /$20k… c’mon bro you are from UK, this is chump change. There are a ton of systems in place for you to get this money back in your own country. Stop complaining about the “little” advantages the Africans are getting in 2012.

    • shuhao

      why don’t you do your MA in the UK?what make you want to come to china to study ,majority of chinese student would go abroad to do their higher education if they have the money .

    • Foreign Devil

      Don’t expect a MA degree from China to carry much weight either.

    • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

      Err . . . guys, maybe he’s studying CTM or the Chinese language – something that is best studied in China? Either that or he’s got some other reason (work, family etc.) for doing so and it’s not just because he’s one of those guys who plans to spend the rest of his life trying to pick up girls at Windows? At least I hope that’s the case.

      I did my master’s at CCLS in London for 9K GBP total from 2007-8 (3K fees, 3K rent, 3K everything else). Fees may ahve gone up, but in the end, doing a master’s in the UK, even in London, may well still be cheaper as it only takes one year. Even if the straight figures make overseas study look cheaper, you have to also count the cost of the money you would have earned during that (almost always pointless) extra year that most other countries require you to do to graduate with a master’s.

    • http://www.foarp.blogspot.com FOARP

      PS – his description of his African classmates as rich matches my experience. Most of my African classmates when I was studying in China were the offspring of corrupt officials, most of whom seem to want to spend their entire time drinking/whoreing to the max, safe in the knowledge that they didn’t need to learn anything to hit it big after they finished. There were a few who weren’t though – and those guys were super, super smart people. The Kenyan guy I knew who, having never spoken the language before, learned enough Chinese to study medecine alongside Chinese students within four months of arriving in the country was a shining example of this.

  • Andao

    It’s cool China has all this money to throw around. Wish I was a Chinese farmer

  • bert

    ugly

  • Hongjian

    ITT Chinese netizens being retards and idiots again.

    I wish to see them complaining if the western world conquered all of Africa and choked off China from its resources and agricultural lands China needs to survive.
    “Domestic development” and hurrr liberation democracy freedom durrr my ass!
    If China starves, these fucking netizens are the first to cry about why the Heavenly Kingdom cant do anything about it, while they also complain if it does something about it.

    These guys should all be sent down to the country-side to work with the peasants instead of complaining, just as in the old times, when they werent just useless nosy faggots.

  • vonskippy

    “Chinese Assistance” – so you can count on the building being chock full of lead and asbestos and other poisonous building materials eh?

    Wonder how much cash was filtered off by the corrupt African governments.

    • http://youhaeseriousissues.com Capt. WED

      versus expensive building project by western standards? What are you proposing as the alternative?

  • Cleo

    Wow, Africa UNITED – how impressive and intimidating that future will be. You either hate it or you embrace it. This may be the first of many buildings housing the congress but it’s an honor that Africa allowed China to build it.

    If you were African, would you worry about Chinese or Japanese (who are fluent in Beijing Mandarin and confident that they can masquerade as Ugly Chinese in Africa)? Hmm? Who do you worry about in China? African merchants or Japanese “students”?

    • E Puff

      I’m a black woman living in America, I say at least they didn’t go in, kidnap, enslave, murder, and steal the land like whites did. They are actually working out deals through generosity, building friendships, and alliances that will ultimately prove very powerful. it’s the west that should be worried.

      • E Puff

        not a black woman living in america, i am a black american woman lol born here in america . i phrased that incorrectly.

        • Somethin Somethin

          Yeah the Chinese are real sweethearts compared to the British, French, and Belgians. I’m sure the deals they’re signing look so very different from the ones inked 100 years ago. Read the comments. The Chinese are there in naked self-interest, have been there in naked self-interest since the 60′s, and will continue in the same light until the last barrel of crude, square meter of farmland, and chunk of ore is working for them. The colonization of Africa is just that, so don’t spend wasted breath on talks of filial brotherhood and generous nature.

          • Joe

            Everyone is working in self interest… but there’s a difference between stealing and dealing.

          • Hongjian

            >Belgians
            >China is better than them

            Yes. Very very YES.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

            “Severed hands

            Congolese labourers who failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off.

            Failure to meet the rubber collection quotas was punishable by death. Meanwhile, the Force Publique were required to provide a hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, as it was believed that they would otherwise use the munitions (imported from Europe at considerable cost) for hunting food. As a consequence, the rubber quotas were in part paid off in chopped-off hands. Sometimes the hands were collected by the soldiers of the Force Publique, sometimes by the villages themselves. There were even small wars where villages attacked neighbouring villages to gather hands, since their rubber quotas were too unrealistic to fill.
            One junior white officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested. The white officer in command ‘ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades … and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross.’[10] After seeing a Congolese person killed for the first time, a Danish missionary wrote: ‘The soldier said “Don’t take this to heart so much. They kill us if we don’t bring the rubber. The Commissioner has promised us if we have plenty of hands he will shorten our service.”‘[11] In Forbath’s words:

            The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the European post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State. … The collection of hands became an end in itself. Force Publique soldiers brought them to the stations in place of rubber; they even went out to harvest them instead of rubber… They became a sort of currency. They came to be used to make up for shortfalls in rubber quotas, to replace… the people who were demanded for the forced labour gangs; and the Force Publique soldiers were paid their bonuses on the basis of how many hands they collected.

            In theory, each right hand proved a killing. In practice, soldiers sometimes “cheated” by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die. More than a few survivors later said that they had lived through a massacre by acting dead, not moving even when their hands were severed, and waiting till the soldiers left before seeking help. In some instances a soldier could shorten his service term by bringing more hands than the other soldiers, which led to widespread mutilations and dismemberment.”

            Blow it out your ass, Something fucktard!

          • Chad

            What’s different is that the Chinese don’t pretend to be angels unlike the Europeans. They’ve never pretended to be generous. Ever. That’s exactly why they’re not disliked as much as the europeans in africa who arrive in private jets, pretending to be saints. The chinese trade resources for low-interest loans and infrastructure. That’s always been their MO and they’re clear about it unlike the BS economic-policy-twisting of the West which has screwed over a number of African countries. At least now Africa can say they’re choosing their own fate.

        • vonskippy

          Yet ironically, you’re still sucking up the benefits America has to offer instead of heading back to some shithole in Africa. What a hypocrite.

  • Cleo

    That building actually looks African. I think their aesthetic is so sophisticated that it is beyond me and is often masked in rough materials like woven straws but the SHAPES and combinations are UNIQUE and balanced and CLEVER. Wow, Africans had to be rendered to the subsistence level to keep them down. When that ends (soon), where will the rest of the world stand relative to them.

    • Kyle

      When that ends (soon), where will the rest of the world stand relative to them.
      —————————-

      Isn’t it obvious? All non-Africans will be bowing down to the great African people because we all know Africans are the smartest and greatest people in the world. It’s evil racist whitey keeping them down with all that racism. Once racism ends, Africans will find the cure to cancer, solve the world’s hunger problems, and invent spaceships that can travel to another galaxy. It’s damn evil racist whitey preventing them from doing those things.

      • mr. weiner

        Sounds like you’ve been reading “the legend of jahkool”

        • Kyle

          you’re a funny guy, weiner :)

          • mr. weiner

            Thankee si.
            I think I got the spelling wrong but apparently the Honorable Elijah Mohammed used to spin this story to the inner circle of some his first recruits in the Nation of Islam. Apparently it goes that in the centre of Africa there used to be a technologicaly advanced and peaceful empire until a mad scientist started fiddling around with the DNA of white apes and created white people by mistake, precipitating war and strife as a result.
            In later years he stopped telling this one as it was ….somewhat undermining his credibility. I Have not had any luck looking this up on line.

          • Kyle

            I knew about the story of how Africa was once a technologically advanced society, and how the evil white devil stole their civilization from them… but didn’t know that there was a title to that fairy tale.

            Just wondering, how do you know so much about American society?

          • mr. weiner

            Kyle.
            I have an interest in all this stuff because we don’t have many black folks in the south of Australia.My first boss when I got to Taiwan decades ago was a black guy from New York, an ex member of the nation of islam and a really interesting fella. I found out all sorts of stuff from him.
            I finally found the story I was looking for, go to Wiki and look for “Yakub [nation of Islam]” there is a link at the bottom for the whole transcript from the Honorable ElijiaMohammed. Always interesting to see that folly ,bigotry and outright stupidity are common to all races :]

      • DRaY

        Kyle,
        You seemed misinformed… China is playing a large role in helping many African, S. American and Caribbean countries to better themselves. If these countries took conventional routes to obtain loans they would never get anywhere. China is offering them assistance at lower interest rates and these citizens of these countries are actually seeing change. Yes “WHITEY” is holding many 3rd world countries down. Lord forbid a 1st world Black Country. …. It’s a white man’s secret nightmare.
        It is a calculated investment on the part of China, but one that seems mutually beneficial for now.

        • Kyle

          No, I am not misinformed. I know that China is playing a large role in the development of Africa. They are practically building African society for the Africans. How else would Africa get ahead?

          ———-
          Lord forbid a 1st world Black Country. …. It’s a white man’s secret nightmare.
          ———–

          HAHAHAHAHA. Thanks for the laugh. To borrow a line from mr. weiner…. Sounds like you’ve been reading “the legend of jahkool”

          If a first world black country ever exists, it would be because it is built by the Chinese, run by the Chineses, and maintained by the Chinese. The moment the Chinese are not there. That society would crumble in the hands of blacks.

        • mr. weiner

          As with any foreign power coming to Africa. I’d be really careful about assuming that they are coming to help the locals better themselves, nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent self interests. Some of the other folk who post here, such as Xiao Jei [a lady from Gambia I believe]have already stated that the chinese there are making themselves well disliked by acting in a high handed manner. Unfortunatelly I honestly can’t see the chinese as acting any differently from any other colonialists.The most honest answer you’d get on this would probably be from HongJian.
          You have to work out if the f*cking you are getting is worth the f*cking you are getting :]

      • E Puff

        it’s also “evil whitey” who causes cancer with some of his unnecessary inventions. he also causes global warming, and big hole in the ozone layer, and many other disasters that are likely to eradicate human life from the planet along with all of the other species that are almost extinct becasue of their so call “civilization”. they R genuises. maybe those smarty pants can terraform the moon so we can go live on that after they’re done fucking up planet earth. after all, money is everything even if there’s no where to spend it.

        • Kyle

          E Puff, why are you living in America? You are a free person, you should go live in Africa and be with your African brothers and sisters.

          Is this evil racist white society too good to leave behind?

          • GodsHammer

            WHenever you pay for the RELOCATION costs, smartass.

        • http://youhaeseriousissues.com Capt. WED

          WHY U MAD? WHY CAN’T YOU BE HAPPY LIKE THE REST OF THE AMERICANS ON THE COMMERCIALS AND ON TELEVISION.

          LMAO.

          U ARE AMERICAN. WHY ARE YOU SO MAD???

    • Kyle

      Cleo, you sound so proud of that building and the people who built it. If you look into it, I bet you will find that it was Chinese brains who designed that building. It was probably Chinese ingenuity that was responsible for that building being what it is.

      I highly doubt Africans contributed much more than the manual labor. You should be proud of the Chinese.

    • hess

      “That building actually looks African.” really? i cant see the cow dung

      • mr. weiner

        What is the Swedish for “troll”?

        • hess

          troll

          • mr. weiner

            Than I’m calling you a troll, but I’ll say it in with a norweigan accent so it will be about one octave above middle C. “Troll”.

  • E Puff

    I once heard about some story that there were chinese men over in african having children (out of wedlock) with african women, and the african men were creating genocide, killing all of those offspring. does anyone know this story?

    I wonder what will happen to those evil people who are stealing africa land and slaughtering african people… will they try to fight with china for china’s land or resources?

    • Dat Ankle

      Doubt it, Africa didn’t try to get back and the West when it fuck its people over 5 times and back again, so they probably wont do it to China.

    • EuroTrash

      E Puff, just judging on your grammar… u sure u re an american? just wondering but for a starter…africa/n….HUGE difference

    • donscarletti

      Well, Chinasmack would be a good place to look for that.

      I had a quick look and found something about Chinese marrying African women (which they damn well should be doing if they’re going to be get them pregnant), but it seems you have already been there and said something racist about the matchings being “disturbing”…

  • E Puff

    now im wondering how long till some terrorist b lows it up.

    • mr. weiner

      Once the “great Satan” America has gone down I guess and the “Eastern Babylon” China has suplanted it.

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  • tod

    who gives China government the right to use money from tax bearer without their permission???bitch!

    • the foreigner

      you do… you voted them in…

  • JPAX

    I imagine that the Chinese government “donated” this money for the construction of this building as they agreed to use a Chinese construction firm to build it at a lower cost and therefore boosting their own economy further whilst helping out a poorer nation.

    My current boss (Chinese) used to work for a Chinese construction firm as a translator in Zimbabwe and he said most of the construction going on in Africa is outsourced to Chinese firms as the labor costs are lower.

    Pretty smart and simple if you think it through!

  • dim mak

    >Westfags don’t know how to aid

    Infrastructure aid beats food/medical aid because it LASTS LONGER and they can build upon it.

    • EuroTrash

      lmao i ve been to africa with unesco, i ve plenty of mates still working there. africa is still at the same status as it was hundreds of years ago with one big difference…corrupt leaders now got cash and kalashnikovs….sounds familiar. there are truck loads of african developmental help folks which say…stop aiding africa as they cant maintain it. they just move from one camp to another and never learn how to grow crop themselves nor how to dig a dwell. we pouring billions into it and as soon we reach b or c in the alphabet we need to start with a again…(metaphorical..)

      • Somehow

        You do realize that Africa is not a country right?
        There is quite a gap between countries like Botswana which has free education and Zimbabwe which the kind of country you’re describing.

      • Suijen

        It shouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t maintain the equipment. They don’t have the training for it, and those who are trained are brain-drained to the first world. The Chinese built the Tan-Zam railway for Africa and then left it in the hands of the Africans. When the Chinese came back during the 80s, they found that the Africans were not able to maintain the railway and it fell into disrepair, and the Chinese realized that the Africans required training also. That’s why China has been offering scholarships for African students, so that Africa can develop the capacity to develop their countries. How effective is that when Africans can always leave for greener pastures is hard to say.

      • dim mak

        That doesn’t matter, China’s not responsible for that. We built them a road or a hospital, it’s theirs to take care of. The West gives food/medical aid with political strings, which just pisses off their politicians and prolongs their suffering until the supplies run out. What good is that?

        • moop

          you are not so retard as to truly believe china does these things with no strings attached. as someone who works with the chinese government i can assure you they do

          • tai wai

            What’s that? The policy of non-interference is just some BS they use to keep from having to listen to the rest of the world?

            *shocked*

      • the foreigner

        ahh no, Africa is not in the same state as it was hundreds of years ago. Africa has and is drastically improving. Not all leaders are corrupt so keep in mind not hear about strife in Zimbabwe and automatically think that the other 54/57 countries spread across 30.2 million square kilometres are following suit.

        It is great that China have aided Africa this will benefit both Africa and China. With this, African nations would feel more inclined to trading its rich natural resources. A good move for China, if anything should happen they have Africa’s resources.

  • lonetrey

    “Imagine an adult who makes 50,000 yuan per year taking out 50 yuan to help a friend, its no big deal!”

    I almost fell for this argument. But then I thought that with so many people in China, even if 0.1% suffers, that’s a whole lot of suffering.

  • FYIADragoon

    Disagree. Israel is a leech. Shouldn’t go giving any money to Palestine either though.

  • typingfromwork

    Ok, That looks impressive. A little too much like the Big Brother eye, I’ll admit, but still pretty nice.

    This is the kind of aid that will invigorate Africa to do more than what it is doing right now. There is so much potential there, and yet very few people outside of the place can remove the “must stop famine in Africa” mentality, as if they will perpetually be the victims of colonisation or natural disasters. There needs to be real investment in Africa instead of constantly treating her like a lost child, and just giving her endless temporary relief rather than a chance for her to mature into something more. But that has always been the intention, really, hasn’t it?

  • B

    If you ask me, the first image from sky view, the structure looks very much like the chinese coat of arms symbol.

    Now why are China in Africa, of course to exchange their low quality shit products against extorting african recourses. Where U.S would hold demands on the nations government, China simple would not care who runs the show or what needs it would use to control it’s population.

    Same oppressors different empire. Get real, Africa is getting butt plugged as usual.

    • GodsHammer

      B is correct. Outsourced labor, inferior household products and craptastic shanzhai cellphones by the boatload, in exchange for mineral resources. Shanzhai AK-47 and Jeeps etc… to keep the people in line, traded for timber and ore.
      Why is the BUND the most solid part of Shanghai? Riddle me that one. Nobody needs the Chinese to build them buildings mate.

    • Chad

      Extorting? Oh silly B. It’s called trade. Nearly every country in the world participates in it. No one forces cheap Chinese goods in Africa or any other country. The consumer CHOOSES to buy it over more expensive alternatives. And you are right that the US would demand to dictate the country’s economic policies and even how the government operates. That’s worked out so well for Africa /s. Thank god there’s finally a country that cuts the BS and deals straight. OF course the former oppressors can only whine and cry about how evil China is. ;)

      • B

        The question is what is best for the people. I’m not a former oppressor if your last sentence was aimed towards me.

  • EuroTrash

    my mate works in Africa for the international red cross and he was just laughing. he literally said Africans cant keep the dwells running nor the corn growing. hence, maintaining isnt really on their priority list…we know how chinese buildings turn out quality wise. give it a few months till the tiles start to crush down and the silicone paste to evaporate…. sorry just speaking truth

  • http://youhaeseriousissues.com Capt. WED

    HAHA. I hope the world blows up and take all you faggots with it.

    • GodsHammer

      Ditto.

  • Sumgai

    China is just extending its power, there’s nothing else to it. They use Chinese companies which use Chinese workers. Of course there might be 1 or 2 african cement truck drivers hidden in there somewhere but that’s it.
    This is just the continuation of colonization, it’ll make a few African billionaires leaving the rest starving as they always are.
    It’s funny that the African-Americans are cheering for the Chinese while the Africans actually hate them.
    There have been plenty of documentaries made about this topic, freely available.

    • Somehow

      Well I’ve seen a lot of these documents and I have family in Africa.
      Saying that African hate chinese is a ridiculous simplification. Of course there are tensions, this always happens when you have foreigners moving into a country but Africans are well aware that they owe a lot to China.

    • Chad

      I’ve seen plenty of media and made for mainstream TV documentaries talk about how China is colonizing Africa or how they’re hated in Africa or whatnot. It’s amusing how a free press can be led to march in lockstep to paint a picture of what’s happening around the world.

      And Africa is growing at unprecedented rates actually in HDI. Coincidence? Maybe.

      Anyway, read The Dragon’s Gift by Deborah Brautigam for the truth about how Africa is benefiting from China and how the Chinese are seen in africa. You sometimes have to read a book these days to get the truth. Mainstream documentaries and media just don’t cut it.

    • Suijen

      That has some element of truth, but it’s not true completely. Chinese companies would much rather prefer Chinese workers; they might have construction experience, they’re willing to work harder for lower wages, and they speak Chinese. However, the more savvier African countries actually impose limits on how much labor can be used for infrastructure projects, forcing many Chinese companies to hire local.

      The primary difference between the Chinese now and the former colonists is that the Chinese can’t and won’t force African governments to acquiesce to any deals; the only Chinese guns that make it to African lands are sold. An African government can easily walk away from any and all Chinese deals without being the threat of violence. They, however, can still fall victim to the China hype though.

      And yeah, Chinese goods suck, but that’s not really news.

  • rollin wit 9′s

    from a used to wanna be architect’s POV, this sh!t is right up my alley.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      Oiyaah, dem’s no flying buttresses, yo! That’d be the shizzle!

      Mo’ oney, mo’ money, mortar money!

  • 404namenotfound

    Thank fuck it wasn’t built in Nigeria… those fucks would just let this beautiful building break & rust & shit

  • Peace

    This guys know what they are doing..love their strategy…hehehe get Africa under your control have the bigger say in the world..very smart move.

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