Loading ...Bipartisan House Legislation Aims To Counter China’s Investment In Africa
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a new bill that aims to counter communist China’s malign activities in Africa.
Reps. Young Kim (R-Calif.) and Colin Allred (D-Texas), both sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, said China’s activities in Africa, particularly those under Beijing’s foreign investment program, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also known as One Belt, One Road, have caused harmful effects to the continent’s environment, ecology, and public health, according to a press release issued on Aug. 5.
“We cannot allow the People’s Republic of China and Chinese-linked companies to continue their exploitation of African nations as they subject their people to harmful ecological and public health risks,” Allred said in a statement.
Isn’t this like complaining that you lost a big contract because you were outsold and then trying to force the customer to only buy from you anyways even though you already called him a total a**hole for signing with the competition? Not exactly a winning sales strategy!
Exactly. When I first saw this, especially this paragraph, “We cannot allow the People’s Republic of China and Chinese-linked companies to continue their exploitation of African nations as they subject their people to harmful ecological and public health risks,” I thought to myself, he should have continued his statement to the effect that the exploitation of African nations and their people has long been the purview of the US, so where does China get off copying our playbook.