u need to learn the definition of colonialism china is definitely not colonizing africa africa and china are trading resources each sides needed, this is the normal routine of trading
That debt-trap has been debunked so many times already that anyone spouting it deserves ridicule. Country after country are signing up. You all look arrogant, foolish, jealous and stupid.
what's funny is there is really no difference between china and the old european imperialists. what's different is the chinese are more polite on surface but will take over anyway. africans need to know that only they can help themselves, not some glorious race of saviors, white or yellow.
That's all well and good until you realized those hospitals were 'loaned' to you and you can't pay them back and suddenly China has 99 year leases on them and all the money spent in those hospitals goes right back to China. Ask Sri Lanka how that port worked out for them...
@@gasun1274 how is there no difference? There's no apartheid like in South Africa, there's no slavery like in America, and so u know, China forgave 23 debts of 17 African nations just last year. Many of the other loans are interest-free as well.
Can't forget when british came in 15th century. You didn't get anything, instead you just lost everything. From plants and animals and recourses to people. literally everything. If we look at it in political way, yeah it won't be actually good but in way people view it, it's actually pretty much better than UN who literally tells African countries to "just eat" because they have famine
Maybe you haven’t seen it but China has shifted manufacturing to some African states. I don’t see anything wrong with it. One thing I respect about China and the Chinese people. They always put their interests first
@@charlesirby1643 Yes u r right. Chinese people (and it's government) are very practical. We really don't care about what god do u worship or what's your political system.
As african myself I never saw anything made insert "african country name", all i know we have lot natural resources that regular african see nothing off , all controlled by goverment or forgein companies
Me an African who only finds "made in (African home country name)" on most products There are a lot of times where I see "made in France" or "made in Italy"
@@trulybruhmoment4927 Pay him to what? He's just sharing his experience, remember africa is an entire continent and not every african nation has good relations with china.
@@trulybruhmoment4927 most of the "made in France/Italy" are like skincare products, makeup, some chocolates come from some European countries, and things like that Plus we're closer to Europe and Italy is one of our largest trade partners (including China) but most of it is oil trading business
@@axlr8deathpls294 ikk thank u, every country in Africa has its own history, story, and relations with different countries. We are also proud of our history together 😊
@@JmMateo933Fr, people need to stop acting like something’s good/bad just because a country they do or don’t like does it, they’re both terrible things and should stop, but we’re too focused on shifting the fcking blame to do it
Have you done your research on this? The Chinese are corrupting the governments and installing secret police stations. It's all part of the “一带一路” meaning "belt and road" initiative, that in fact is a cover up for the way that china is exploiting Africa
Yes, and that's the plan. If they created the job opportunities, then they are in power. This is absolutely great for (as far as I can tell) people like you, but the American government for instance, hates it. They would obviously also like to "control" African jobs. Be careful down there, don't trust blindly.
Does that mean that us African countries will have our huge empires back??? (The ones in our history of other than the "after the Europeans arrived" history Cause cause sadly not much people especially non-africans know abt this great history
That’s literally everywhere though. in the US most of the stuff in an average household is made in China. The device everyone owns has parts made in China
@@nouriaamer7075 everything is made in china anyway. The first time I saw a brand that said made in Turkey I was extatic! It must be some High grade shit.
@@hiqhihihihi black panthers. Malcolm X. Red Scare. Espionage act. Japanese internment camps. Muhammad Ali going to prison. Palestinian protestors being arrested and unmasked. And btw you lose your job in America if you say there are 2 genders. The fact that you think the first amendment is protected is pathetic.
@@general_electricsholy shit, you’re right! It does really sound like a southern American trying to fake a Chinese accent. This southern American trying to fake a Chinese accent impression is spot on 🤓
Hahahahahahaha oh god it hurts to not be an idiot in this day and age. They built vital infrastructure that is still used to this day across the continent and ENDED SLAVERY you ignoramus.
Wait does that mean that us African countries will also have our huge empires back (the ones that most of the world doesn't know of cause they only look at our "after the Europeans arrived" history)
@@blackhole7383 ooh, imagine a new Mali empire. Or Songhai. Or Ghana. You know what, I think I just play too much civ (basically, I found out about Mali and Songhai empires via Civ 5 and 6, looked them up more, watched the extra credits history series on Mali, and then looked up Ghana too. Rather interesting civilisations. Especially Mali, which somehow achieved a balance of tribal religions and Islam).
No no no you see, when the French militarily intervene to install a new leader in a west African nation, that's heckin epic and wholesome democracy, but when the orien.. I mean uhh China hands out loans and builds infrastructure, that's unwholesome colonialism literally 1984
@@sergioyanahi a lot of South Africans wear the exact same thing as most of Africa and the world for that matter, jeans, T-shirts, maybe not hoodies, but sneakers. Sure it may be traditional attire but not only is it not from South Africa, the nearest country with similar clothing is Lesotho, Kenya, and parts of Eswatini. While South Africa may have somewhat similar clothing they’re fairly unique compared to most of Africa
You clearly haven't opened a history book. You think the Spaniards and Europeans weren't being nice at first? They were selling ivory and spices for gold and land. Just like china is selling their services for their land. "We give you a hospital, you give us your nation"
@@Hi_My_Names_Ryan Colombus literally took slaves from the Caribbean back to Europe the moment he landed. Soon after, the entire living population was enslaved to mine gold until death. They overthrew the Aztecs right after they "discovered" them. Let's be clear, China sucks and is clearly debt trapping African countries through infrastructure, but don't compare them to 15th century Europeans.
>offer money for resources >Debt >Oh uh! You can't pay debt! >Take their land for yourself >Just another day helping the poor African people from xie vest
@@stanleystove what do you expect when you can't pay your debt? I honestly can't get how this is an argument against Chinese loans and deals? If they can't pay the loans, then they shouldn't take them.🤷♂️
I remember this one time a store got used for lying about their clothes being made in the U.S. while they were actually made in China. The tags said "Made in the U.S.A" clear as day, and so most people thought that they were in hot water. However, they got off since the tags themselves were made in the U.S. and there was a tiny tag at the right bottom side of the shirt that said "Made in China." It's a great idea, but this loophole was patched, lol.
and that's exactly the problem.... decades of "for the price of a cup of coffee you can send a poor african kid to school" charity has made us believe that africa is just one more well for clean water away from not being savages anymore.... the whole western charity business is fueled on racism.... China with all their terrible human rights violations... invests into african infrastructure and builds factories etc in africa... which terrifies us... we did that in south east asia in the 70s and 80s... and most of them caught up to us and some are about to surpass us in the next 20 years... nothing more terrifying for westerners than to see non-white people have prosperity
@@LoFiAxolotl some parts in africa are almost as bad as advertised. It is literally national geographic in some parts, but it is not the case of every african nation. They all have big cities, but the issues reside in the rural areas. Yep, you're right. The sweat shop model is moving to africa thanks to china.
Exactly, The West HAS, and CONTINUES, to do hundreds times worse to people they have always oppressed and colonized, africans chose better ally (not perfect obviously, but far better)
As a Nigerian. I can confirm outside their firms which the profit goes back to their country after utilizing the manpower, land and fertile soil here..............The rest is in debt. We owe them so much that we could literally be slaves tomorrow. Our Currency keeps devaluing due to this lack of indigenous means of production and it recently halved under 4 years. Whilst minimum wage remains the same
Only africa can help africa don't expect help especially from super power countries. Super power countries have massive land mass due to colonialism and invasions.
@@freeze4728 Even I am Turkish nationalist know Turkey's helps are emperialist so I dont want them to do it *if* china and other countries will leave the africa. I think Africa should help africa then comes turkey then comes america then comes china.
China invests billions of dollars into Africa.. then they have to pay it back to them putting those countries in terrible debt. Plus, a lot of that money being invested is through projects which take a lot of work going into them and aren't that well managed leading to many problems for those working on those projects.
This is just neocolonialism which is a form of colonialism that’s about investing and industrializing a country without taking it over or having any physical presence there
@@legendaryking913 Yeah instead they have a history of shooting their own people, 50 million dead in famine, Uyghur holocaust, discrimination against the religious, dystopian government control.. etc
It's the same as what the US did with China 5 decades ago, they sent all their factories for cheap labor with no rights but it benefited China greatly and made them what they are today
I find it ironic that he calls it 15th century colonialism, since if the west didn't have a modern competitor we'd still be in 21st century western colonialism
@@eatanim this guy has a problem with changing history to his narrative, for china it's bad, but with a famously antisemitic guy, like Ford, he says he made Saturdays off for the Jewish, like come on it's so offensive
@@tahaistheboss98 Modern competitor? Are you referring to USSR? Because China was not even close to competition until the US started pouring billions into them.
@@Oldman1912 you know if you went into a store and was given the task to not buy anything that was made in Asia, you wouldn't have anything to buy. African citizens are only being given one option and that option is not even a choice. Dictators and corrupt politicians are the ones 'spending Chinese money' so no it is not a such dumbass
Jokes on the joke, we are worse than Disney when it comes to sequels. Every empire ever has decided to exploit their neighbors at some point. In the modern era we just have a more liberal understanding of neighbors.
@@divotd2094 I’m in AP Human Geography, and I think personally it’s not a useful class at all. It’s the class I regret taking the most. I have straight A’s in everything, so I’m not just lazy/ unmotivated. If I were you, I would take a different class if you have the option to (unless AP Human Geography is required by your school). You’re gonna end up taking AP World History next year anyway
Pumping investment in exchange for local resources doesnt looks like 15th century colonialism, they choose china because of the investment while US is just : "WEAPON WEAPON WEAPON!"
That is true, but China has most of those countries in so much debt to China that they now have no choice but to stay with China. I know people from there who said it was like working as slave labor as they were paid so Poorly, and all of a sudden Chinese men became their bosses, and they were building things like hospitals most people wouldn’t benefit from anyways because a lot of people were too poor to use them
@mysteriousone5978 You are comparing two completely unrelated scenarios without even noticing. Africa is far from those scarcely populated tribes of North America where the colonizers fought over land and power. China doesn't need more land for its people, it rather needs more people for its land and products. And exactly that is where the problem turns out to be the opposite of what you are talking about. They are doing what the US did to China 5 decades ago. Sending all their factories into Africa for cheap labor. For this to work out, they gotta build their infrastructure first, so their growth can continue, even after industrialization. A genocide or any killing of population in general would be counterproductive for this cause. Africa will be their new workforce after the demographic shift with their extremely young population.
totally agree!! China never ever colonized any country, they are helping their brothers in Africa to build infrastructures since more than 80 years ago, such a long time.
China is actually helping to end poverty and world hunger by helping African countries with infrastructure and expertise on developing their farming, food supplies and economy!
@@KingAuthor84he wont answer, i guarantee you. If you are new to RUclips theres this bot flooding the comments with comment reply who will never answer any questions you say to them
Africa was always under Indentured Labour since Colonial Era, China is only helping African Industrialization and reducing Indentured and slave labour at this point
China isnt just buying resources homeboy. They are buying the land where the resources are and exporting the vast majority of it back to China. Most African countries are ran by corrupt and inept politicians or warlords looking to make money, it does nothing to help Africa as a continent
Mf, they are putting African countries desperate for economic progress in debt to them. Why do you think a Chinese military base in Africa exists? Because they couldn't pay the debt.
@@HelmetmanTheSwede Are you being sarcastic? It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or being narcissistic in these times maybe use /s to signify that?
@@Nirvana16okay so basically european powers killing african and enslaving them and taking their land = colonialism BUT African nations going to china for foreign investment and china in return actually help them develop= colonialism???
@@Nirvana16define colonialism . You think China will ever make the African into slaves and cut their fingers off if they don't obey like Columbus did? Jak arse!
Not developing it exploiting it they give these nations a shit tonne of debt which they then can’t pay back so china swoops In and takes control of the area
The difference is that China isn’t pillaging Africa. They arnt making starving people unlike the rest of colonial history. They are building things for Africans. When other nations did it, they built stuff for themselves. But when China is doing it they are building stuff for China and Africa. There is a big difference. That is why China is gaining popularity. The African people are consistently seeing a rise in wealth and help. Not in just food but machines and tools. When the west came in we built machines and then worsened their nations. China hasn’t and isn’t doing that.
You have comrade in your name so you are too far indoctrinated for anything I say to change your mind buy ill try anyway. One important thing is these factorys and infrastructure arent philanthropic gifts, they are actually loans with preditory interest rates, accounting to 10% of the continents debt at 696 billion. The colonisation of africa by china is done for profit
Pal, the very thing presented here is a problem. If China employs lets say 30% of certain African nations don’t you think they can do what they want afterwards? Lets say fuck over stuff? First play nice, then become irreplaceable and needed. Sounds like what colonialism did but in 100 times faster, from simple trade to taking the land. “Lets trade funny tools we have for some of your fur” says the colonialist, then he says: “This is now mine, but wait, that next thing there too, we helped you, that’s the minimum you can do” The Chinese says: “I will buy this land and give you a job producing for us” then he says: “Do as I say or that village where we employ 80% in the factory rots with the end of the factory, we make the rule, you follow it or we shift next door” hmm sounds like Africa gets screwed again
@@schumerus6786 Sure so China shouldn't invest in Africa? No one should? Honestly, this sounds like projection from the West, we think everyone works like the IMF.
@@_blank-_ I do think that the best way to promote Africa is to just keep out, Big Entreprises will just ruin it further. Let them handle it. If their politics are turned right and their population has the mind set, in 30 years they’ll be a International Business Power
Man you reminded me of a pokemon region me and my (now late) aunt thought up. We had made some starters based on animals you could find there and concepts (fire ghost type horse made of magma and obsidian glass, which made glass as it ran across the sand)
You mean you don't like it when America extracts all of your resources and buys off your politicians and then tells you how you should run your own country, blaming it on the corruption that they created in the first place? I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like that
You: uneducated, you’d realize that usa doesn’t invest in Africa because they invest in South America. China invests in Africa and takes ports and builds hospital to pay for allies. The U.S does it for money because they are are allies already
China is absolutely not doing colonialism. They are giving loans and helping develop these African nations in exchange for resources for the Chinese INDUSTRIAL economy. They are still focusing on manufacturing, they have no interest in a parasitic service economy like here in the US.
@@whisperingforest9909 they aren't doing colonialism, they aren't monopolizing natural resources or local industries to extract capital from the host countries. China is simply giving loans and helping build infrastructure.
@@Sartious idk bruh do you see any other real competitors for china in africa today? sounds like a monopoly to me.. and sri lanka didnt turn out so good after all that chinese “investment”
@@FF-ch9nr monopoly in this context means the Chinese aren't seizing control of the resources or industries and profiting off of them via selling it back to the host or other nations. that's true colonialism, basically plundering.
But didn't colonization also result in the creation of much of the infrastructure, institutions and systems that are used in many of these countries to this date?
As an American who lived in Kenya for the first 15 years of my life, I can confirm that this is true, they’ve also been doing a lot of construction, they even built a train system in the city I lived in
China is better than Europe, tho. It's a choice and people understand what Colonialism is and how damaging it was. China is not dumb. They pay for everything or give friendly loans
Wow, every youtuber is an expert in geopolitics. That being said, we in Nigeria welcome Chinese investment in our country. We would rather have these investments than bombs and invasions from the usual suspects.
Heh, funny thing that you mention bombs and invasions. The Chinese government, not the people, they got nothing to with it, has done its fair share of bad things including mass censorship, systematically suppressing the culture of their annexed neighbors, building concentration camps and importing slave labor from North Korea. Oh yeah and their oogling of sovereign nations nearby is threatening basically all of the globes technical infrastructure. BUTT this is not Africa's problem. You do what you gotta do to protect your people and be it accepting China's yoke. It's the global power's fault for not providing superior or equal "help" as China does. Is it ultimately bad? Yes. Understandle? Also yes.
You are only replacing one tyrant to another far worse. Infra they build is used to spy and control your population, while actually useful infra like harbors are turned into defacto Chinese military bases. Also check how Chinese see Africans in general.... yeah not best allies. And yes i'm well aware about Shell essentially owning your country and using its military against the populous and i'm against all that, but ffs after getting bum fucked by one tyrant, dont go offering your ass to be raped by another one.
Question- seriously. why do you all hate America? So much so that you'd rather china?-- Just curious really. Rarely do I get a chance to ask someone who lives in Africa actual questions. Been following this very closely this chinese-africa thing.
@@johnwalker7592 Look at your country's history of external politics and maybe you'll understand. Look at Iran, for example, you people created that mess.
I don't remember 15th century colonizers giving African nations a choice to work together with almost full autonomy in exchange for billions in investments that help Africa...
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u need to learn the definition of colonialism
china is definitely not colonizing africa
africa and china are trading resources each sides needed, this is the normal routine of trading
@@kenho-wr5ul2rh7mPutting countries in debt is totally not colonizing
如果借钱和投资是殖民主义，我希望任何人这样殖民我。
任何人都可以说殖民主义，唯独殖民者本身西方国家不能这样说。
西方国家瞧不起的非洲，中国人愿意。
西方商业公司瞧不上的利润，中国公司愿意。
西方国家喊口号，中国在做事。
不可否认，有些公司做的不对，但总体是对的。
That debt-trap has been debunked so many times already that anyone spouting it deserves ridicule. Country after country are signing up. You all look arrogant, foolish, jealous and stupid.
Did China kill African like u guys did? Belgium alone killed at least 10 millions Africian
As a shirt, I can confirm that I was made in China
as a Chinese shirt, I can confirm I was made in africa
As an African shirt, I can confirn I was made in Africa...oh wait-
As a cotton shirt, i can confirm that i was made by uyghur slaves in a concentration camp
I see 808 I think Nokia or Roland.
@@takumifujiwara3039 so real save the Uyghurs
As a Kenyan official puts it: "Everytime China visits, we get a hospital. Everytime Britain visits, we get a lecture."
what's funny is there is really no difference between china and the old european imperialists. what's different is the chinese are more polite on surface but will take over anyway.
africans need to know that only they can help themselves, not some glorious race of saviors, white or yellow.
That's all well and good until you realized those hospitals were 'loaned' to you and you can't pay them back and suddenly China has 99 year leases on them and all the money spent in those hospitals goes right back to China.
Ask Sri Lanka how that port worked out for them...
@@Deadeye313 here comes the lecture lol
@@gasun1274 how is there no difference? There's no apartheid like in South Africa, there's no slavery like in America, and so u know, China forgave 23 debts of 17 African nations just last year. Many of the other loans are interest-free as well.
Can't forget when british came in 15th century. You didn't get anything, instead you just lost everything. From plants and animals and recourses to people. literally everything. If we look at it in political way, yeah it won't be actually good but in way people view it, it's actually pretty much better than UN who literally tells African countries to "just eat" because they have famine
As a Chinese living in china, i never saw a shirt say made in Africa in my life.
Maybe you haven’t seen it but China has shifted manufacturing to some African states. I don’t see anything wrong with it. One thing I respect about China and the Chinese people. They always put their interests first
@@charlesirby1643 Yes u r right. Chinese people (and it's government) are very practical. We really don't care about what god do u worship or what's your political system.
@@KinLee919your govt may not care about God but your people should bc death doesn’t wait for anyone
As african myself I never saw anything made insert "african country name", all i know we have lot natural resources that regular african see nothing off , all controlled by goverment or forgein companies
how you using youtube
Buying allies is better than bullying allies correct?
China does both
@@bruhbruk4568ur probably from ushell
@@BoazKiriama-do3xy ushell? wtf is ushell?
@@bruhbruk4568 USA 😅 the leader of western properganda which always plays double standards everywhere
They’re not buying allies they’re buying satellite states
As an African I can confirm, that made in china stamp is literally almost on everything 💀
Me an African who only finds "made in (African home country name)" on most products
There are a lot of times where I see "made in France" or "made in Italy"
@@blackhole7383 how much they pay you
@@trulybruhmoment4927 Pay him to what? He's just sharing his experience, remember africa is an entire continent and not every african nation has good relations with china.
@@trulybruhmoment4927 most of the "made in France/Italy" are like skincare products, makeup, some chocolates come from some European countries, and things like that
Plus we're closer to Europe and Italy is one of our largest trade partners (including China) but most of it is oil trading business
@@axlr8deathpls294 ikk thank u, every country in Africa has its own history, story, and relations with different countries.
We are also proud of our history together 😊
Western companies exploiting Africa: *investment*
Chinese companies exploiting Africa: *15th century colonialism*
Both are bad
@@JmMateo933Fr, people need to stop acting like something’s good/bad just because a country they do or don’t like does it, they’re both terrible things and should stop, but we’re too focused on shifting the fcking blame to do it
@@JmMateo933 who cares do you want to pay 30 dollars for a shirt
@@amonke5276 I’d rather
Have you done your research on this? The Chinese are corrupting the governments and installing secret police stations. It's all part of the “一带一路” meaning "belt and road" initiative, that in fact is a cover up for the way that china is exploiting Africa
As an Chinese immigrant who also every year visits china, I say this is total bs because I never saw anything made in Africa
of coz its BS .. the clip is made by a clown named henrybellcoster
Made in Africa, Vietnam and Mexico are for the US and western countries, not for Chinese domestic market.
As someone who is from Mozambique Africa the Chinese are not colonizing us, in fact they opened so many business and job oportunities
Yes, and that's the plan. If they created the job opportunities, then they are in power. This is absolutely great for (as far as I can tell) people like you, but the American government for instance, hates it. They would obviously also like to "control" African jobs. Be careful down there, don't trust blindly.
Yeah whilst they debt trap your nation so your government has to be subservient to the Chinese
Thank you for telling the truth.😭😭
Until they take all your ports like Sri Lanka 😊
@@panzerchad In what way?
History repeats itself.
The tech changes but the methods stay the same.
Portuguese gone to east coast of Africa near the end of 15th century and China gone to east coast of africa at beginning of 15th century with Zheng he
Does that mean that us African countries will have our huge empires back???
(The ones in our history of other than the "after the Europeans arrived" history
Cause cause sadly not much people especially non-africans know abt this great history
True
It more rhymes than repeats itself
@@blackhole7383 britain France Portugal Belgium and Italy pretty much messed up that dream. Although the one big African merging nation could count
As an egyptian person, I can't even sharpen my pencil without reading "made in china"
That’s literally everywhere though. in the US most of the stuff in an average household is made in China. The device everyone owns has parts made in China
@@bobograndman its way different in africa its much more "made in china" you dont understand everything is made in china
true
@@nouriaamer7075 everything is made in china anyway. The first time I saw a brand that said made in Turkey I was extatic! It must be some High grade shit.
I live in Europe and my pecil and shrpener also say made in China.
Bro said 15th century African colonization
Africa was colonized in the 18th to 20th centuries
That’s the scramble for Africa but the actual colonization started with ports in Africa under the rule of Portugal which is around 15th century.
@SimonGoodmen yes but then eroupean rule over Africa comes from alexander the great and the roman empire
@@RomanMapping176 That’s just conquering not colonialism.
@@RomanMapping176u have conquest and colonization confused. They’re not the same.
To be fair, the Arabs had colonized about half of Africa by the 15th century.
China - Africa : building world infrastructure together
Western Nations : A Lot of Complaining, worries about Gender 😂😂😂
At least the US actually allows their people to complain instead of shutting them up like some other countries I can think of
@@TheOneAndOnlyD-O-Double-G lol keep thinking that. it's what they want.
@@mob1tchesat least give some evidence of the first amendment not being protected
@@hiqhihihihi black panthers. Malcolm X. Red Scare. Espionage act. Japanese internment camps. Muhammad Ali going to prison. Palestinian protestors being arrested and unmasked. And btw you lose your job in America if you say there are 2 genders. The fact that you think the first amendment is protected is pathetic.
As a Chinese man I can confirm we speak like that
It sounds like an American from the South trying to fake a Chinese accent. 😂
it just the rock dwayn jhonson chinese dialeg
@@general_electricsholy shit, you’re right! It does really sound like a southern American trying to fake a Chinese accent. This southern American trying to fake a Chinese accent impression is spot on 🤓
We do from southern china, with cowboys and stuff
Yes
I would've laughed if he said,"In China, it says 'made at home'."
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Wow no shit this is this is pure honesty and love
@@israelguy1361 ew gross what is that pfp?
@@uh3610 it’s probably him LOL
Sorry to here you will only last a year or two before falling apart
@@israelguy1361 normal Israeli profile picture
At least they are building Africa also road ,train , port, airport....what have west have given... nothing only taken
Literally all infrastructure was built during colonial times. Due to rampant corruption and incompetent administration, everything collapsed
Hahahahahahaha oh god it hurts to not be an idiot in this day and age. They built vital infrastructure that is still used to this day across the continent and ENDED SLAVERY you ignoramus.
$2 trillion in foreign aid?
Literally NOTHING in China says "Made in Africa". I don't understand how facts can be so blatantly wrong in a video with this many views.
Maybe that's because Africa is not a country.
Probably should remind Henry@@zigzung5569
Chill it's not that deep , they didn't kill our mamas
“History always repeats itself”
-Sun Tzu, The art of war
Wait does that mean that us African countries will also have our huge empires back (the ones that most of the world doesn't know of cause they only look at our "after the Europeans arrived" history)
@@blackhole7383maybe who know's
@@_mdgamer4289 I'm so happy some people know 😆😆
If you forget it
@@blackhole7383 ooh, imagine a new Mali empire. Or Songhai. Or Ghana. You know what, I think I just play too much civ (basically, I found out about Mali and Songhai empires via Civ 5 and 6, looked them up more, watched the extra credits history series on Mali, and then looked up Ghana too. Rather interesting civilisations. Especially Mali, which somehow achieved a balance of tribal religions and Islam).
ruthlessly exploiting a nation vs giving it interest free loans in exchange for support is very different.
No no no you see, when the French militarily intervene to install a new leader in a west African nation, that's heckin epic and wholesome democracy, but when the orien.. I mean uhh China hands out loans and builds infrastructure, that's unwholesome colonialism literally 1984
You haven't seen shit read heart of darkness nothing has changed just who is taking the minerals
Interest free loans that they can barely pay off? Some of these african nations are in huge debts to china and are giving away land to them
Ask Srilanka how those loans are going. They lost access to hambantota port to China for 99 years
lmao... China is trapping them in debt...Ask those African Nations
Nah Bro. Can we just appreciate he pulled a full Frank Sinatra when he said " New York". Legend.
As a Kenyan we are tired of aid we want infrastructure to support ourselves
As a South African, I can confirm our politicians dress themselves in attire from a completely different side of the continent.
Yup
Then what would y’all wear? It’s Africa. That’s common african attire.
@@sergioyanahi ruclips.net/user/shortsgkxy4Hz-Wig?feature=share
@@sergioyanahi a lot of South Africans wear the exact same thing as most of Africa and the world for that matter, jeans, T-shirts, maybe not hoodies, but sneakers. Sure it may be traditional attire but not only is it not from South Africa, the nearest country with similar clothing is Lesotho, Kenya, and parts of Eswatini. While South Africa may have somewhat similar clothing they’re fairly unique compared to most of Africa
@@quicklylearning we do wear hoodies bruv
The accent sent me 💀
Sounded like a Chinese Texan
Pork fry rice
@@Beazilla Then don't watch...
@@Beazilla everyone has a southern American accent tf you talking about?
@@jeffjeff2109 fry rice wida ey roll
Bro didn't hesitate making that racist accent
It's not even an attempt at a Chinese accent, it's just funny voices for cartoon characters. Must be miserable having such thin skin.
Fun fact: made in China stickers are actually made in Korea.
Fun fact they aren’t
Well, I haven't come across any Chinese genocides or invasions in Africa, so doesn't exactly sound like 15th century colonialism
You clearly haven't opened a history book. You think the Spaniards and Europeans weren't being nice at first? They were selling ivory and spices for gold and land. Just like china is selling their services for their land. "We give you a hospital, you give us your nation"
@@Hi_My_Names_Ryan Colombus literally took slaves from the Caribbean back to Europe the moment he landed. Soon after, the entire living population was enslaved to mine gold until death. They overthrew the Aztecs right after they "discovered" them. Let's be clear, China sucks and is clearly debt trapping African countries through infrastructure, but don't compare them to 15th century Europeans.
Don't you remember that business owner in africa literally beat African workers with whips when they step out of line bruh 💀
>offer money for resources
>Debt
>Oh uh! You can't pay debt!
>Take their land for yourself
>Just another day helping the poor African people from xie vest
@@stanleystove what do you expect when you can't pay your debt? I honestly can't get how this is an argument against Chinese loans and deals? If they can't pay the loans, then they shouldn't take them.🤷♂️
I remember this one time a store got used for lying about their clothes being made in the U.S. while they were actually made in China. The tags said "Made in the U.S.A" clear as day, and so most people thought that they were in hot water. However, they got off since the tags themselves were made in the U.S. and there was a tiny tag at the right bottom side of the shirt that said "Made in China." It's a great idea, but this loophole was patched, lol.
damn bugfixes
Ngl the “Newww Yorkkk” part ate 😭😭
People who are from South Africa or Africa like me
👇
When China does something, its bad , when WEST does it , its liberation 🤣🤣
No hoe is still bad
Yeah lol, Africa dont have any progress during france and UK occupation.
When the west does it it's called colonialism NOT liberation in case your booboo brain doesn't understand
Exactly, this makes no sense. China invests in Africa = slavery, colonization, settler colonialism, massacres, apartheid etc.
Cheap propaganda.
And now all those African countries are indebted to China and can't pay them back.
As a chinese person, I can confirm I was made in africa
As an African, I can confirm I was made in China.
😆😆 thanks.! I needed that this morning..!
Ok
We’ve all been made in Africa
So relatable 😊
I love this guy’s voice when he is doing dialogue! 😂❤
For this video I found randomly. You've got my sub. 😊
My man just represented africans with head bandanas, and rags, holding sticks and dancing
and that's exactly the problem.... decades of "for the price of a cup of coffee you can send a poor african kid to school" charity has made us believe that africa is just one more well for clean water away from not being savages anymore.... the whole western charity business is fueled on racism.... China with all their terrible human rights violations... invests into african infrastructure and builds factories etc in africa... which terrifies us... we did that in south east asia in the 70s and 80s... and most of them caught up to us and some are about to surpass us in the next 20 years... nothing more terrifying for westerners than to see non-white people have prosperity
@@LoFiAxolotl some parts in africa are almost as bad as advertised. It is literally national geographic in some parts, but it is not the case of every african nation. They all have big cities, but the issues reside in the rural areas.
Yep, you're right. The sweat shop model is moving to africa thanks to china.
Accurate
Fairly accurate
Heroic
"we own-uh da oll chainiz teritori"
i died.
Bro thought he could sneak in 2 Spider-Man’s in the beginning😂😂
Love how you state so many points in a short amount of time. 💯♥️
I'd much rather they buy allies than brutally conquer them
Its also more efficient to buy slaves than kill them.
@@PhoenixFires yes because if you kill slaves you wont have slaves.
@@PhoenixFires China been looong ago abolished SLAVERY, unlike USA 1866....
I’d rather enslave them with money than force
Exactly, The West HAS, and CONTINUES, to do hundreds times worse to people they have always oppressed and colonized, africans chose better ally (not perfect obviously, but far better)
This dude is a massive legend, he basically answers all my questions without me having to ask them. (Woahhhhh!!! Thank you for 1.4k likes!!!!)
This comment is sad as fuck lmao
Bruh
@@atlashammercock9582 kinda
why are you dropping f-bombs
@natyhaniel Trueee
As a Chinese, never have i ever seen anything labeled "made in africa"
As a Nigerian. I can confirm outside their firms which the profit goes back to their country after utilizing the manpower, land and fertile soil here..............The rest is in debt. We owe them so much that we could literally be slaves tomorrow.
Our Currency keeps devaluing due to this lack of indigenous means of production and it recently halved under 4 years. Whilst minimum wage remains the same
At least China is sending money, not soldiers & arms like what USA & France are doing
noo debt trap is comingg
@@imethd90debt trap is better than death trap
@@imethd90ohh western powers are not using debt traps in China. Yeah right 😂😂😂😂😂
You clearly don’t understand the chinese debt trap
@@jasonmonge9969 dude china owns siri lankas ports because they were forced to pay outrageous debt
I'm happy for Africa. US/Europe didn't want to invest in Africa and China saw the opportunity
Bro but China kinda colonialising them(Both sides are not innocent in this case I think)
Only africa can help africa don't expect help especially from super power countries.
Super power countries have massive land mass due to colonialism and invasions.
@@freeze4728 Even I am Turkish nationalist know Turkey's helps are emperialist so I dont want them to do it *if* china and other countries will leave the africa. I think Africa should help africa then comes turkey then comes america then comes china.
The world has been taking Africas raw material for cents on the dollar for centuries. The world can help Africa, but the world chooses not to.
China invests billions of dollars into Africa.. then they have to pay it back to them putting those countries in terrible debt.
Plus, a lot of that money being invested is through projects which take a lot of work going into them and aren't that well managed leading to many problems for those working on those projects.
This is just neocolonialism which is a form of colonialism that’s about investing and industrializing a country without taking it over or having any physical presence there
Spider-Man jump scare got me💀
China freely trades with Africa.
Africa is happy.
Westerner: "Hey that's wrong! You can't do that!"
Do you genuinely believe China doesn't intend to exploit them?
@@gokuuzumaki70 china doesn’t have a history of colonialism
@@gokuuzumaki70 I don't know what China intends, but I do know the West has exploited Africa and China and is still trying to do so to this day.
@@legendaryking913 Yeah instead they have a history of shooting their own people, 50 million dead in famine, Uyghur holocaust, discrimination against the religious, dystopian government control.. etc
@@stanleystove and you think the west hasn’t done that?
It's the same as what the US did with China 5 decades ago, they sent all their factories for cheap labor with no rights but it benefited China greatly and made them what they are today
I find it ironic that he calls it 15th century colonialism, since if the west didn't have a modern competitor we'd still be in 21st century western colonialism
I was searching for this comment! Thank heaven someone thinking about this!
@@eatanim this guy has a problem with changing history to his narrative, for china it's bad, but with a famously antisemitic guy, like Ford, he says he made Saturdays off for the Jewish, like come on it's so offensive
Actually a good fraction of factories in China are actually English companies and make up a good proportion of Chinese manufacture
Just a fun fact
@@tahaistheboss98 Modern competitor? Are you referring to USSR? Because China was not even close to competition until the US started pouring billions into them.
The map not being aligned properly is kinda funny
As a south African I'm tired of people using our land for themselves
Stop eating their money....
@@Oldman1912 wydm
@Amal 🇸🇴 if you crave and spend Chinese money, then you pay the price.
@@Oldman1912 bold of you to assume our government isn't corrupt as shit
@@Oldman1912 you know if you went into a store and was given the task to not buy anything that was made in Asia, you wouldn't have anything to buy. African citizens are only being given one option and that option is not even a choice. Dictators and corrupt politicians are the ones 'spending Chinese money' so no it is not a such dumbass
We are NOT making “taking indigenous peoples lands for our own greed” a trilogy 💀
Jokes on the joke, we are worse than Disney when it comes to sequels. Every empire ever has decided to exploit their neighbors at some point. In the modern era we just have a more liberal understanding of neighbors.
As a South African I agree with this.
Ok nah bro really hit that note in New York 🔥
his accents never fail to make the video 10x better
We own the Chinese territory,
Facts
@@Mr_Astro-Vera what
No WE own the Chinese territory
@@bweaddss NO OUR CHINA TERRITORY
Bro istg this dude's just an AP human geography teacher
I’m going into ninth soon. What do you do in AP human geography?
@@divotd2094 I’m in AP Human Geography, and I think personally it’s not a useful class at all. It’s the class I regret taking the most. I have straight A’s in everything, so I’m not just lazy/ unmotivated. If I were you, I would take a different class if you have the option to (unless AP Human Geography is required by your school). You’re gonna end up taking AP World History next year anyway
And?
@@mathscience2009 but what do you do in the actual class itself?
As a Walmart bag I can confirm that I am made In china
As a Nigerian, African, this is what i fear. 😢😢💔
If the world is happy then the west will be sad and angry to see them happy.
The world isn't happy when the west is sad
@@bigman6424if the West is sad, the world will be happy
Pumping investment in exchange for local resources doesnt looks like 15th century colonialism, they choose china because of the investment while US is just : "WEAPON WEAPON WEAPON!"
Yet China is still a bigger threat than every other country in the world
That is true, but China has most of those countries in so much debt to China that they now have no choice but to stay with China. I know people from there who said it was like working as slave labor as they were paid so Poorly, and all of a sudden Chinese men became their bosses, and they were building things like hospitals most people wouldn’t benefit from anyways because a lot of people were too poor to use them
@@Mr.Plant1994 Well, it's either China or the IMF. I'd rather have China.
Also there is no 15th century colonialism
@@Mr.Plant1994they forgave 2.3 billion dollar
The difference is China is actually building up and supporting Africa and the us only exploited it
I thought he was gonna say “made down the road” 💀
There is no West or East, there is only forward -Kwame Nkuruma
they're*
also if theres a joke here that relates to the video at all i dont get it
@@saikitonia Bruh
@@saikitonia it's self-explanatory
Kanye forward?
@@frozenturbo8623 no no no Kanye North
Bro takes under a minute to explain my hour long history lessons 👍
Lmao no he didn't
@@atlashammercock9582 Yeah he did not bruh
These people think TickTocks can replace proper education 💀
hour long? it took my teacher 5 minutes to explain the china-africa neocolonialism
@mysteriousone5978enocide and resettling into reservoirs? I missed that part of history in Africa recently I guess
@mysteriousone5978 You are comparing two completely unrelated scenarios without even noticing. Africa is far from those scarcely populated tribes of North America where the colonizers fought over land and power. China doesn't need more land for its people, it rather needs more people for its land and products. And exactly that is where the problem turns out to be the opposite of what you are talking about. They are doing what the US did to China 5 decades ago. Sending all their factories into Africa for cheap labor. For this to work out, they gotta build their infrastructure first, so their growth can continue, even after industrialization. A genocide or any killing of population in general would be counterproductive for this cause. Africa will be their new workforce after the demographic shift with their extremely young population.
As a chineese, i can confirm it says on the stamps "made next door"
totally agree!! China never ever colonized any country, they are helping their brothers in Africa to build infrastructures since more than 80 years ago, such a long time.
In Africa I can confirm my whole house was made in china 😌
The accents 💀
True
yes no shit
15th century colonialism?! Didn't that come with genocide and slavery? I don't see those in Africa. Stop trying to project Western evils onto others.
And you wonder why they gotta chip on their shoulder 😂
bro the accents you do are crazy
China is actually helping to end poverty and world hunger by helping African countries with infrastructure and expertise on developing their farming, food supplies and economy!
Bud you should know more before saying shit
@@Gizz101and what do you know? Some made up shit by some anti-Chinese?
@@KingAuthor84he wont answer, i guarantee you. If you are new to RUclips theres this bot flooding the comments with comment reply who will never answer any questions you say to them
@@alexanderrohaj4794 ah ok
Let’s hope Chinese expansion doesn’t result in South African indentured labour 🤞🤞
It’s not all good all though they are taking over Africa they also are trapping them in massive debt and making them pay it
I think those days are over so stay positive !
Africa was always under Indentured Labour since Colonial Era, China is only helping African Industrialization and reducing Indentured and slave labour at this point
@@mr.morningstar9252those days were better for South Africa
@@nathon1942 For the colonizers, that is
my guy said "buying resources from countries is colonialism" 💀
He's an American what do you expect
Then with that logic corporations like shell can do what they want in africa to get those resources. What’s your point?
China isnt just buying resources homeboy. They are buying the land where the resources are and exporting the vast majority of it back to China. Most African countries are ran by corrupt and inept politicians or warlords looking to make money, it does nothing to help Africa as a continent
Tbh that part is sccurate
Mf, they are putting African countries desperate for economic progress in debt to them. Why do you think a Chinese military base in Africa exists? Because they couldn't pay the debt.
As an Asian, I can assure you I was NOT made in China
you were re-assembled in where ever you are from lol
yooo that cross pattern's the pattern of my pants that i'm wearing right now with the same exact colours
Nah, for me all my clothes are made in Bangladesh. Gotta say those children are really good 👍
Nahhhhhh💀💀💀💀
The Vietnamese kids work way better tbh
yeah, they accomplished more things in 10 years than you did your whole life. (jk)
@@TheWanderstar to be honest, yes.
But in the rest of my life I will accomplish more than them since unlike then I can get educated.
@@HelmetmanTheSwede Are you being sarcastic? It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or being narcissistic in these times maybe use /s to signify that?
Define "taking over" clearly and thoroughly.
taking over basically slow process of taking something
which had the same meaning of colonialism
@@Nirvana16okay so basically european powers killing african and enslaving them and taking their land = colonialism
BUT
African nations going to china for foreign investment and china in return actually help them develop= colonialism???
@@Nirvana16define colonialism . You think China will ever make the African into slaves and cut their fingers off if they don't obey like Columbus did? Jak arse!
But they are developing Africa for the africans, seems pretty right to me
Not developing it exploiting it they give these nations a shit tonne of debt which they then can’t pay back so china swoops In and takes control of the area
Them african animations are wild
The difference is that China isn’t pillaging Africa. They arnt making starving people unlike the rest of colonial history. They are building things for Africans. When other nations did it, they built stuff for themselves. But when China is doing it they are building stuff for China and Africa. There is a big difference. That is why China is gaining popularity. The African people are consistently seeing a rise in wealth and help. Not in just food but machines and tools. When the west came in we built machines and then worsened their nations. China hasn’t and isn’t doing that.
You have comrade in your name so you are too far indoctrinated for anything I say to change your mind buy ill try anyway.
One important thing is these factorys and infrastructure arent philanthropic gifts, they are actually loans with preditory interest rates, accounting to 10% of the continents debt at 696 billion. The colonisation of africa by china is done for profit
Pal, the very thing presented here is a problem. If China employs lets say 30% of certain African nations don’t you think they can do what they want afterwards? Lets say fuck over stuff? First play nice, then become irreplaceable and needed. Sounds like what colonialism did but in 100 times faster, from simple trade to taking the land. “Lets trade funny tools we have for some of your fur” says the colonialist, then he says: “This is now mine, but wait, that next thing there too, we helped you, that’s the minimum you can do” The Chinese says: “I will buy this land and give you a job producing for us” then he says: “Do as I say or that village where we employ 80% in the factory rots with the end of the factory, we make the rule, you follow it or we shift next door” hmm sounds like Africa gets screwed again
@@schumerus6786 Sure so China shouldn't invest in Africa? No one should?
Honestly, this sounds like projection from the West, we think everyone works like the IMF.
@@_blank-_ I do think that the best way to promote Africa is to just keep out, Big Entreprises will just ruin it further. Let them handle it. If their politics are turned right and their population has the mind set, in 30 years they’ll be a International Business Power
As an African I can say that Namibia is OVERRUN by Chinese bureaucracy.
Man you reminded me of a pokemon region me and my (now late) aunt thought up. We had made some starters based on animals you could find there and concepts (fire ghost type horse made of magma and obsidian glass, which made glass as it ran across the sand)
As another African, I agree
South Africa is big allies with China
@@louisgrissman4857 how does namibia remind you of a pokemon region??
Hmmm yes, your profile picture is representative of the typical Namibian man
@@M1kdTheOnly you are aware that there are white Namibians right?
I wouldn't say "taking over" Africa.... just helping Africa as part of its diplomatic policy.
I’m pretty sure in China the shirts say, “down the street” but ok.
As an african i welcome chinese money instead of american embargos
You mean you don't like it when America extracts all of your resources and buys off your politicians and then tells you how you should run your own country, blaming it on the corruption that they created in the first place? I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like that
L
@@astroenvious6681 fuck the states
@@astroenvious6681t’s obvious that China is better for African countries than America, but as an American screw China and their neocolonialism
@@seyamrahman1002 cope seethe cry about it
Usa- business
China- colonialism
😂😂 Hypocrisy
You: uneducated, you’d realize that usa doesn’t invest in Africa because they invest in South America. China invests in Africa and takes ports and builds hospital to pay for allies. The U.S does it for money because they are are allies already
Mans listened to a Frank Sinatra song right before recording the voiceover
We makin it out of the fields with this one. 🗣🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯
China is absolutely not doing colonialism. They are giving loans and helping develop these African nations in exchange for resources for the Chinese INDUSTRIAL economy. They are still focusing on manufacturing, they have no interest in a parasitic service economy like here in the US.
Sounds like your describing colonialism
@@whisperingforest9909 they aren't doing colonialism, they aren't monopolizing natural resources or local industries to extract capital from the host countries. China is simply giving loans and helping build infrastructure.
@@Sartious idk bruh do you see any other real competitors for china in africa today? sounds like a monopoly to me.. and sri lanka didnt turn out so good after all that chinese “investment”
@@FF-ch9nr monopoly in this context means the Chinese aren't seizing control of the resources or industries and profiting off of them via selling it back to the host or other nations. that's true colonialism, basically plundering.
But didn't colonization also result in the creation of much of the infrastructure, institutions and systems that are used in many of these countries to this date?
China is basically doing what usa did in the past....just a minor difference they are using money instead of threats or war
Cheap labor is fine until America does it. Got it bro 👍
@@leehoward5370 no both amerikkka and china are imperialist but china is just offering something on the table
@@nikinikipikipiki8547 Its great! Just ask sri lanka
@@CatManOfTaste go and ask an iraqi then im sure they love the usa
@@nikinikipikipiki8547 Iraqis don't like most people tbh
As an American who lived in Kenya for the first 15 years of my life, I can confirm that this is true, they’ve also been doing a lot of construction, they even built a train system in the city I lived in
yooo ngl, that "newwwww yorkkkkk" was kinda good, like he actually sings good
as a Chinese guy I cannot confirm everything says “made in Africa” (it’s all made in China)
China is better than Europe, tho. It's a choice and people understand what Colonialism is and how damaging it was. China is not dumb. They pay for everything or give friendly loans
Things in Africa say "made in [REDACTED]"
I'm from a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in China, I can confirm everything is still made in China, I've never seen an African shirt
I just love the voices you make man,keep going❤
Had to write a geography essay about this last year, this goes much deeper than you would think.
Wow, every youtuber is an expert in geopolitics.
That being said, we in Nigeria welcome Chinese investment in our country. We would rather have these investments than bombs and invasions from the usual suspects.
Heh, funny thing that you mention bombs and invasions. The Chinese government, not the people, they got nothing to with it, has done its fair share of bad things including mass censorship, systematically suppressing the culture of their annexed neighbors, building concentration camps and importing slave labor from North Korea. Oh yeah and their oogling of sovereign nations nearby is threatening basically all of the globes technical infrastructure. BUTT this is not Africa's problem. You do what you gotta do to protect your people and be it accepting China's yoke. It's the global power's fault for not providing superior or equal "help" as China does. Is it ultimately bad? Yes. Understandle? Also yes.
You are only replacing one tyrant to another far worse. Infra they build is used to spy and control your population, while actually useful infra like harbors are turned into defacto Chinese military bases. Also check how Chinese see Africans in general.... yeah not best allies.
And yes i'm well aware about Shell essentially owning your country and using its military against the populous and i'm against all that, but ffs after getting bum fucked by one tyrant, dont go offering your ass to be raped by another one.
Westernera are compaining because they stop getting free slaves from 3rd world countries while pretending to be angels
Question- seriously. why do you all hate America? So much so that you'd rather china?-- Just curious really. Rarely do I get a chance to ask someone who lives in Africa actual questions. Been following this very closely this chinese-africa thing.
@@johnwalker7592 Look at your country's history of external politics and maybe you'll understand. Look at Iran, for example, you people created that mess.
Very true for the last one
"Yo!, Whats the new update?"
"Buffed version of slavery"
As an African, the only thing I have that is not made in China is nothing.
I hear that "nothing" is common is africa
@@Gandalf_the_White yes it is unfortunately
I had a stroke reading this
As a Chinese man, I can confirm we are buying africans
Ayo?
@@redshift739 English isn't his first language...
@@Brutalchaos2I think it was more of a play on words.
It's sad how a young man literally set himself on fire and the majority of the world simply moved on. 😪
Arab spring?
I don't remember 15th century colonizers giving African nations a choice to work together with almost full autonomy in exchange for billions in investments that help Africa...