Obama Visit and China's Role in Africa
The role being played in Afria by both the United States and China is among the issues debated in assessments of President Barack Obama's visit to three African nations by AllAfrica's news partners.
Photo: Pete Souza/White House
President Obama headed back to the U.S. with a refueling stop back in Senegal.
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Let's say it plain and clear: SOME PEOPLE DESPERATELY WANT OBAMA - and by extension all Africans/Blacks - TO FAIL. Notice how none of these nay-sayers of the Obama trip to Africa say anything about CHINA'S PROBLEMS. Whether it's the Chinese in THEIR internet attacks or proxies of the Chinese who aren't Chinese, the Chinese do not have HISTORY with Africa. They want to borrow from the west and PRETEND history doesn't matter if you're waving money around. If you're using "SMOKE AND MIRRORS" to compete. THERE IS A REASON MANY FACTORIES ARE COMING TO (AND BACK) TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. They've wasted billions running to China and now want tax breaks from American taxpayers to CORRECT themselves. That's why the U.S. needs Africa, but however it happens, the U.S. has gotten serious only because the anti-African/Black culture in the U.S. (you only have a future by saying it like it is) has begrudgingly started to admit it NEEDS Africa. THIS BLACK MAN HAS NEVER BEEN OF THE **MAJORITY** anti-black/brown/African for obvious reasons and their fear is that WE might actually benefit. That's the real reason for hesitation. But, Africa's connections with the U.S. can't be ignored. The president told college attending Africans that he WELCOMED their being able to CHOOSE to "get the best deal." HAS **CHINA** EVER SAID THAT **SINCERELY*?
America just does economics better. For one thing we have OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) for a reason: YOU'RE WASTING TIME AND MONEY MAKING WORKERS SICK FOCUSING ON PROFITS. Some WITHIN the U.S. didn't want OSHA and most countries refuse to UNDERSTAND the concept of taking care of their workers/employees. THEY HAVE BEEN PROVEN WRONG OVER AND OVER. We have PROTECTIONS for citizens because THE U.S. does things DIFFERENTLY than ANTIQUITY (ancient times). China has NO SERIOUS PROTECTIONS and this **SHOWS IN THE PRODUCTS THEY CHURN OUT** Substandard stuff being FORCED on the world. Thus, CHINESE BUSINESS looks for fools to peddle their contaminated products. They can't even give milk to babies the right way, but you talk about how they are WINNING in Africa?
Liesl, I'm curious why you are choosing to blithely repeat his opposition's talking point that this Africa trip cost the US taxpayer $100 million dollars.
It's true that it did. But it's equally true that nearly every lengthy multi-country trip that the President takes costs a great deal of money. This trip is not unusual at all in that regard.
His trip to Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul in his first term cost even more.
His trip to Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, and Lisbon also cost more than this trip.
His trip to Bangkok, Burma, and Phnom Penh cost nearly as much as this trip.
So why are you making an express point of calling out this particular trip's cost?
A US President carries with him a vast and expensive entourage. There is simply no way to avoid it. Any trip he takes will cost a large amount of money. And this trip is in service of his country's diplomatic goals, so it's absolutely required for him to make it.
Please do not use partisan talking points that mean nothing when you write your story. It cheapens the other points that you intend to make.
Well, will they African Leaders let the destruction that has be done before to Africa and Africans happens again to them in a different forms and shapes by the same individuals who had done it over and over again to Africa and Africans?? Will it?? Remember that we are now living in a different age and time and we "Africans and Africa" are NO MORE properties by these same individuals whose intention is to keep exploiting Africa and Africans in any ways and care less of Africa and its people advancement and development.
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