China's Rush Into Africa, Explained.
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I’m Nigerian and I know this is gonna be a big issue for Africa going forward. Thanks for shedding some light on this, love your videos!
Debt trap
:'(
You i feel sad for africa and how much its going through well because of china always thinking of expansion
Being in loan is better option for africa than Bombing cities and civilian in name of democracy ?
Tayo I love your travel stories...glad to find you on this channel..keep the good you are doing..
While I understand the game China is playing, I find the concern of the West for Africa as rather shallow and fake. It's not so much that the West cares about African people but rather feels threatened by a new rising player.
Well said. The west has never cared for the welfare for other countries or its people. It’s always had agendas even before the rise of Russia and China. Only now this “concern” for Chinese expansion is a last ditch and desperate effort to hold onto what little power they have left. Honestly I feel China as a world power might be a nice change. At least they don’t go around invading countries for oil.
Fuck USA.
@@hihihui1 Haha..will see. It doesn't seem like you've ever been to China, or know much about its politics really.
@@joemam12 All I know is they’re not as aggressive as the US. When was the last time China aggressively invaded another country under false pretences and word fucked it so it sounded justified?
Like I said happy with a change.
You rather they ignore it? Even if it's shallow and fake it's better than nothing.
Man 1: "Aww, you idiot, you fell in the quicksand. Gimme your hand before you drown and get me in trouble."
Man 2: "No, I don't want your help. You don't really care about me."
@@hihihui1 Lol..they just militarized the whole South China sea, relentless provocations against all nations in the seas around them, threaten Taiwan with war almost on a weekly basis, and rekindled the conflict with India (where people died) just last year--not to mention what it's done to its own people.
Is it as bad as the US invasions, no. But this situation isn't a "I like China" vs "I like the US" predicament. Both are quite flawed, but also have positives IMO. And if you take the position of "Country A: Good,, Country B: Bad", you're seriously missing so much about geopolitical dynamics.
Johnny thank you so much for your videos. It's simple to watch in terms of vocabulary for people all around the world, plus you always choose supa interesting topics
China: Just lease us this port for 99 years
Britain be like: That boy’s learning fast
@Joey Harper The Chinese are learning fast. They must have been watching the Americans and getting ideas.
Nah, they just pay their debts using their huge tool in the pants. The Chinese will go crazy for it.
@Joey Harper yeah, and you sound extremely have no idea what that sentences means. or you just playing fool when chocked.
@Joey Harper Yeah indeed, english is the 3th language I learned. I dont care how good or bad it was, I dont rely on that to earning a living. Did you make a wealthy life with your english?
First, we leased this port, not through aggression or unequal treaties.
Second, we will build this port and improve the port’s infrastructure for free, which means that when we return the port to this country, it will be a usable port, rather than a "disused port."
Third, this is a completely voluntary and equal transaction. There is no persecution by one party on the other.
Fourth, we will not bomb you with our allies because you do not sell me oil.
Johnny: Nothing is free with no strings attached.
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But aayega to Modi hi!!
@@sarojstha44 Bhai yaha bhi😂😂....par Africa me aayega kyu?
@@sarojstha44 yea sure let us let him mis manage us some more.. i mean even in America they realised trump mismanaged covid and he lost... i wouldn't be surprised if Modi wins again.. what's 4 more years of modi showing Indians he doesn't give a fuck
Oh god
How about the strings attached to this free video?
Props to Johnny for having a cameraman on site in the server room with the IT staffer.
I loved this video Johnny. Thank you. This was very informative. I hope you have a great day ahead.
Your videos are amazing , i love the content , the editing , the maps . Really appreciate all the time u invest in creating the videos .
sabrin , what's your opinion of the level of background music?
To me that makes the video unlistenable which is a shame.
I love the background music
Creates suspense
@@adammalbot26i share the same opinion like it
@@__Andrew_i understand, personally i like the music it makes the video more captivating . But it’s true it can be distracting for others , it can be challenging to concentrate on what he is saying with the music in the background. Jhonny should try lowering a bit more the volume of the music when he speaks.
"lend us your port for 99 years"
The UK in the background "wait a minute-"
The best part is, the Chinese is doing exactly what the western world did. But better at doing it
Same thing British empire did with know Nigeria.
The difference is that Britain got that one by using weapons, not by debt trapping.
Heck the US did this to Colombia as well. they funded a separatist movement in Panama which 130 yrs ago was part of Colombia, the rebels decided to revolt and demanded the province of panama become a sovereign nation which of course the US supported that decision. In return they offer Colombia some tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua (which in those days was not liking the USA ways of doing business) they proceeded to built the canal and told panama they will own it for 99 yrs as well, The rest is history.
as a srilankan i am very unhappy about that too
What I always found extra fascinating is that Chinese investment and strategic diplomacy in Africa started under Chairman Mao, even before the country opened up and got rich. It helped lay the groundwork for what Johnny explained here. China's ability for playing the long game is impressive
well there werent that many countries left to build diplomatic ties with so they had to do it with africa
Andong How's it goin u legend
Really easy to play the long game when you're a dictatorship
wait what? its mindblowing
hmmmm "strategic diplomacy" in the poorest parts of the world? where there were flourishing liberation, anti-apartheid, and anti-colonial movements? guys im starting to think this chairman mao guy was a maoist.
China: Here’s $200M. But there’s a catch…
Africa: Aight.
the west enslaved Africa by the sword and massacre in Africa. Thiaroye massacre, Namaqua genocide, gruesome massacre, The Wiriyamu massacre and many many more
and we have one example for chines way of enslave by debt , hambantato port. that they can use for military base.
on the other hand - According to David Vine, professor of political anthropology at the American University in Washington, DC, the US had around 750 bases in at least 80 countries as of July 2021. The actual number may be even higher as not all data is published by the Pentagon.
In my native language Marathi there is a saying
"Swasta Te Mahag"
That means "Free stuff or Cheap turns out to be Expensive"
The only free cheese lies in the mousetrap.
Kharay bhau.
Yeah, we all have that saying, no matter the language
Ekdum khara bolalas mitra
Buy cheap buy twice
Swaziland is now called Eswatini because they want to stop being confused with Switzerland
They wished to be Switzerland haha
Dont change the name...educate the people...why is Switzerland not changing their name?
@@disrael2101 🤡
I just want to see how this thread progresses
@@disrael2101 GO ROCKETS!!!
Thank you for this video, I first saw a video about this back on Facebook back 2013.
I'm a Ghanaian and I share an apartment with three Chinese people. I once asked them if they were planning to take over Ghana and they playfully said yes. It's crazy witnessing new people from china arrive each day turning my community into a Chinese community but at least we all live together as family. Most of them now speaks English and even Twi(a Ghanaian language) and some of us can speak some Chinese(mandarin) thanks to them
Scary
Your proud of that?
@@justinhenryrebel what else I'm supposed to do or feel？。fight them？hate them？I'd rather spread positivity and be friendly with them since I have no power to decide who lives where
Not as family 😂 we’re doomed
@@Pengtao99they are not family, only a black people are family. Do you know they teach their kids to hate black people, theirs a video in the internet a Chinese woman teaching her daughter to hate black people and here you are calling them racist people family. Wake up
"The Chinese government literally offered to install for them"
Comedy gold
I laughed so fucking hard when he said that. At least China has a sense of humour.
🇨🇳
@@chinthanaillukwatte lmao china has a deep enemy that US hates the most
Atleast the chinese are contributing positively in Africa unlike Americans and Europeans always trying to sell weapons instigating Wars
@@micbay7271 try harder wumao 🤡
Good one Johnny, an episode on Africa is always welcome.
I am Not an African...but I feel Africa needs these big projects BUT also needs to check the Mountain high debt. Only solution is don't start new projects...instead After completion of current projects Try hard to pay back all the loans.
But building Infrastructure is better than Destroying it (wink wink USA)
well it is good cuz usa also would get involved, u could use them both as money printer, just like when the world use usa and soviet as money printer in cold war era, they poured so much money to gain influence
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Finally someone read my mind, US is getting stupider and only focus on some problems in the world and distracted by their own issues, lol it’s so easy for me to see desperate people gel for each other, Most African Countries are desperate for help because they’re poor and China desperate to spread their power because they have money, I can predict all this things cause it’s so easy, and US is racist enough to not help African Countries at all, and this is why everything happened like how it is, I knew long ago debt will be Chinas Weapon, their main goal are easy to see, they want to be the world’s super power along with Russia and spreading communism, if they can advance to Africa, geogically its close to the US, and Europe, and to surround them, while US military only go around the Ocean, US don’t think about The Land like South America and Africa Continents where enemies can go close to the Western Countries, While Russia Surrounding Europe and US from the North and Continent of South America, Russia and China trying to control these land to get back at the US, they can build a nuclear missile in Africa/South America close enough to hit these western countries, not because China just is rich, The pandemic really is a distraction of the bigger picture of what is happening in China and by the way don’t be RACIST because I say all of these Ok. Chinese governments and Russian Governments are the one who did these not the people
@@tanweeralam1650 Africa need these infrastructures. With AI coming & a large young population, the manufacturing transfers from East Asia to Africa may not materialize. Doing nothing is the worst option.
Awesome vid as always Johnny! 👍
I come from China. I think in addition to the reasons mentioned by the blogger. Another very important thing is that China has always had a trade surplus with Europe, the United States and other regions. The accumulated large amount of US dollars needs to find a region to digest the excessive issuance of low currency.
As a Nigerian, the impact of this is gonna be immense. Thanks for shedding light on it Johnny
Congratulations bro for inducting JF-17 || and there are reports that NAF is going to induct 12-15 more jet's
Nobody in Africa are aware of this?
dude
Don't start any new projects...after completion of current projects try to pay back all the loans.
And train your workers to do the infrastructure building work
Dont worry Nigerians, Phillippines is in the same boat.
72% off all Kenya's debt is not owed to China. Only 10% or less off all Kenya's debt is owed to China. Majority is owed to the IMF and world bank and Kenya's private sector.
This is an inconvenient truth
Not yet. They had a limit too.
and guess who's behind the World Bank? not China.
@@Klanmo who is behind World Bank?
10% is still a HUGE amount to owe to a country on the other side of the planet. NO country does things purely for the other's benefit. Especially China
It's like you people plugged your ears the whole video. China uses debt to coerce and blackmail countries into giving up information, taking certain positions in the UN, and publicly defending China in order to make China seem less evil in the world's eyes. They take natural resources and ocean docks. It's disgusting. It's turning African countries into slave countries, just like Europe did in the 1800's
Please DO make more videos on China ! Loving your content
Great channel, keep the good work!
I’ve known about this issue in Nigeria (and was aware of the negative implications) but I didn’t realize it was happening all over the continent. this was such a brief but helpful breakdown. thanks for covering this!
Balls
Spread it to your viewers so that everyone's aware please
Even in CHAD
Aware of WUMAOS
As kenyan one of the country China 'helps' build I had a feeling it would start causing problems.
I would have laughed if you said " I'd like to talk about the sponsor of today's video..CHINA"
You know what? I saw an ad for a Chinese mobile game right after so you are not far off.
@@PatchyE ads are controlled by youtube, but sponsored videos are the creator being paid by said sponsor
A video about the US would be worse then the one about China 🤣 Yeah ok guy... 🤡.
Would you? That's nice.
😂😂😂
I think there is a miscommunication on how China and Africa relates , the west often finds ways to create hype around the issue and it's often miss understood that Africa is a weaker party ,which is not true.
I would love for you to do a video digging deeper into some of these projects.
FYI, Eswatini at 4:15, formerly named as Swaziland until 2018, which has no Chinese project, is the only African country without a formal diplomatic relationship with China instead they're the only African country recognizing the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, which basically explains the whole situation.
respect Eswatini 👍🇸🇿
Why does it choose to recognize ROC rather than PRC?
@@hilmynaufal4556 Taiwan is where the Chinese Nationalists fled from mainland China in the early 1900s after the Communist Chinese began to gain power. The US did not recognize the PRC until the 1970s, before then they recognized Taiwan as the true government of China.
@@irenicrose I mean, why it doesn't recognize PRC since it could give economic benefit like projects, debt, etc? What are the benefits to choose ROC?
Taiwan numba one
My high school history teacher told me about this topic, and he said to keep an eye on Africa and China for the next few decades, because it’s likely gonna be the biggest news of the future
Clever teacher
@@UltimateEntity yep, I hope I got a history teacher like that
ive been screaming this for years, people look at me in there little tribe mentality and think im dumb.
basically china wants to be the next USA and are finding the next china for themselves lol
Wow as a south african that makes me feel bad🤧
Incredible video this info needs to be more widely known!
Thanks for clear and entertaining information without a lot of bias.
"you gotta look on a map" the moment you see a sparkling in johnny eyes
There is always a map on his narrative. I bet he has one of those sliding trays full of maps on his man cave.
Missed the most important thing about the bugs. When you bug people you get dirt on them from listening. Dirt that in most cases would land people in jail so you get a puppet for life. When those puppets are all diplomats it’s basically checkmate.
Am I the only one who thinks that a brutal war is about to hit us all?
@@person152 rest assured no one actually wanted a full scale war, because it will destroy all powerful's country global business.
I mean USA spied on its alies so not right but typical....
Superpower vibes
@@tevitasauqaqa4433 USA spies on everybody. The entire US government has a voyeur fetish.
@@faisalnh2450 let's assume 3 decades from now complete Africa with a lot of third world countries have developed. The top dogs like america are on this repeat cycle find, use cheap labour, gain profit but now no cheap labour exists as every country is developed what will happen then? as everyone one would want to grow and if you want to make some place on a cliff that's full of people you've gotta push a couple of them down. I'm not even taking if the top dogs will let the power shift from their hands into consideration. There ain't gonna be a nuclear war but things are gonna get really dirty and I'm overlooking climate change.
I'm a little late to comment on this topic presented by Johnny. The fact remains is that since their colonial master left after years and years of exploiting these African countries, they left behind civil wars and corrupted war lords. The colonial masters, of serious racism mindset thought the black people are just low life no better than the slavery time. So the masters had never built much decent roads, schools, hospitals, power lines, tap water system, sewage system, let alone industrial developments. Then comes the Chinese who just want to do business on mutual benefit basis based on contract terms and conditions. Unlike the colonial masters holding a gun pointing at the black guy's head, the Chinese are much civilized to negotiate on equal basis. Just because the Chinese seems to be doing a good job over there helping each other for better live. Some jealous by-standers are picking things like some kind of expert? The Chinese were in Africa 500 years ago during Ming dynasty, in case you don't know Jack.
I wonder how India reacted to China's acquisition of Hambantota Port
Africa has always been in debt by the IMF. At least China builds these infrastructure at a fast rate.
True, China anyway over the Europeans.
IMF is stealing money from the third world
@God الله Allah the Coronavirus was manufactured in China to be leaked outside to overwhelm other countries - an act of war. China is also fighting a war currently with India.
@@up3315 you know China was the first country hit by covid right? If you are the leader of China, will you drop the "manufactured virus" in your own country?
你真这么以为？😂@@up3315
I think Africa and as an African myself we are living in an era full of opportunities for the continent to lift itself out of poverty just like how China against all odds transformed itself in the 80s up to now using the comparative advantage of cheap labour and low taxes that it had , it's up to us Africans to have the right institutions and the right people in those institutions to to use this situation to our advantage
At least the way China provides cooperation to Africa is fair and open. African people have the right to choose to agree or disagree. China has never aimed at you with an airplane or cannon like Western countries, and then tells you that you can choose to agree or disagree.
@Ched Da china is literally just as bad as the west.
@@vibez2806 is this a joke?
@@vibez2806 i hate china's political system as much as anyone does but in terms of relationships with African countries, China is miiiiiles better for now
1: they didn't kill any democratically elected leaders to replace them with dictators unlike the CIA has done in Congo in the 60s
2: their projects are actually well thought out and don't seem to be as harmful as some of the amazingly destructive hydroelectricity projects of Hydro-Québec International in senegal for example
tl:dr while it's still early to say whether or not China being here is a good thing for africans (there's a good chance it will just make them more reliant on foreign countries than they already are which is a bad thing) it's still miles better than what the US has done
@@vibez2806 Nah, china is amateur compared to the west
china give them money than western countries exploit their resource, support their dictactor and ruined their country through war
What's funny is the trains in the US were also partially built by Chinese people
All those bits fell off years ago
4:07
As a Moroccan citizen, I want to thank you for not cutting the map.
I appreciate it ❤..
This looks a million times civilized than what the British did in India or the French did in Algeria.
Yeah more like what British did in America or Americans did in Europe after WW2, or US debt colonization on Latin America.
Well those were colonies for empires
No. It is just as horrible. They are giving them massive dept. Owing their resources. Back then people could fight back. Now they can't because it will be seen as doing disservice to the country's relation with China.
@@smithwerber414 no you fool, ever cared to read history? India's economy was one of the best in the world when the British arrived, and in today's terms, 45 Trillion dollars were stolen over a period of 2 centuries not to say the divided society and people, further divided. Don't comoare this shit to colonialism.
@@creativeschmuck8132 They are doing the same. Now instead of conquering the nation with army. They are doing it with debts.
Instead of calling me fool ho and read history for yourself and stop trying to defend this shit.
While the Chinese media always say that the reason for this is to make friends, I know from the very start that it’s mostly based on Chinese national benefits, of course. There are no friends in international affairs, but only benefits.
就这样
No eternal friends or enemies only eternal interests
You think it's not applicable to all businesses proposals all over the world?
@God الله Allah Uyghurs, fellow muslims are currently being detained and going through ethnic cleansing by the CCP. It sure isn't spreading external war and Chaos but if you combine the issues regarding Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, Taiwan, Xinjiang, South China Sea, India and all the blackmailing of developing countries and manipulating them into debt; I would argue that China is potentially going to do more damage than good in the long term.
@Sordance very true, bro
i’m interested in a video of how the US has projected power. i feel like i’ve learned more watching your videos than i ever have in school.
Could you do a similar video about Bosnia and Herzegovina and their problems on development and how you see them developing and the steps needed to be taken.
As an African who has had mixed feelings about Chinese investments around the continent, thank you for shedding light and educating us on this. The situation is incredibly complicated but it seems like Africa will continue to struggle for the foreseeable future, like it has for the last 3 or so centuries
The real question should be why did the security team not catch these from the start, these are pretty routine processes in IT security.
Also much of African struggle is actually quite simple, the drawn borders do not reflect natural boundaries nor culture groups, they were made to create conflict. Like what is happened in the Middle East.
british came to india to trade, bear this in the mind.
Over population in China is mindblowing.. they might aswell migrate into africa soon... but i could see africa will be more developed than america in next 20 years after this investment... none of the western world did lend a hand now they are angry that china is making moves..
@@hitesh671 british traders also had private militaries twice the size of the actual british army, and they often used them. Bear this in mind.
@@not-anon5359 search for the latest videos on the matter of china population, they have a problem at hands because of one child policy, i imagine they might need the African workforce in the future
There’s a saying in China called “想致富，先修路” which means “if you want to get rich, build roads first”. In very remote areas, people have a hard time going to school, going to work, going to the market or people from outside going in like doctors, supplies, etc. That’s why there’s a lot of road and railway investments.
Tell me more pls, how do u know of stuff like this?
I will pick Chinese over US and Europe
@@whyareyouexisting7285 it’s just basic economics. Better road means quicker and easier transit. This allows for more time being productive hence higher productivity, gdp etc
@@whyareyouexisting7285 whats following that is “少生孩子多种树”, which means "have less kids and plant more trees" lol. it reflects one-child policy and environmental protection
@@christinezhang8932 i mean there's nothing wrong with it tho, when I see my country i.e. Pakistan, overpopulation is one of the biggest concerns. There's only so much land.
With my limited knowledge on this topic , I have friends in Jamaica who expressed concerns about a major tollway system that was built by them. Improved traveling across the country no doubt, beautiful and well designed, I've driven on it. The general concept to me is they are gambling on these countries which are notorious to have corrupt political leaders, Jamaica's politicians are beyond corrupted and it's no secret. Therefore, the gamble pays off when the loans are heading towards default and in Jamaica's case, they have lost control over one of it's major ports. Lands surrounding the tollway is also up for grabs and unfortunately there will always be someone corrupted enough that can be bought in order to make the land grab much easier. To be fair, Ch!na has benefited the citizens in many life saving ways, offering various affordable pharmaceuticals, affordable food items etc. Quality can always be debated but this is a country where many have little options when it comes to every day survival.
"The Chinese and African peoples throughout history have experienced almost similar situations. And today they have chosen to be on a journey together." Prers. Denis Sassou Nguesso
The issue with Kenya's railway is simple.
1.We needed the infrastructure to support development.
2. The Chinese segregated themselves from Kenyans but we would have segregated ourselves from the Chinese workers all the same.
3. They built the railway because if it had been left to Kenyan contractors they would have inflated the price and cut corners on build quality
In short it's better to hand over our ownership to the ports (if we default) but still have a chance to continue developing than to wait for the west to give us high interest loans and still own us.
And lastly, don't forget that currently most of the major European ports are partially Chinese owned
@Sassy Sim lol and command you to do business with it. if you say no, they start a war to force you into agreement,
@Sassy Sim 🤡
go away with your dirty money, commie bots
@@DavidSmith-nx3zw dirty money? Where do I sign up?
@@DavidSmith-nx3zw it's funny how when you talk you're portraying your ignorance. If you knew anything you'd know that my surname is from one of the tribes in Kenya thus I'm qualified to talk about matters of my own country David Smith of the USA
Swaziland is now officially called Eswatini. It was renamed in 2018.
That’s pretty cool. I had no clue
Plot twist : he made this video before happening that and he is uploading now.
Yeah I thought it was weird he kept calling it Swaziland
They both mean the same thing though. It's like how the Ivory Coast insists people call them cote d'ivoire. It's literally the same meaning, but in French.
They renamed it because people kept mixing it up with Switzerland
I appreciate how you put it in your video on EVs. Capitalism focuses on short term profits and returns as they need to keep shareholders happy, while China is often playing the long game.
YOU THE BEST ITS YOU WHO HELPS ME IN MY EXAMS...KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Bruh! As a Nigerian that loves Johnnys content. I was 8hrs late for this gold.
Same here
I’m not sure why he hasn’t included the votes in the u.n the African nations are basically required to vote with China on all issues
Your comment needs more likes... This is a far too relevant and often forgotten fact.
Little info, China and most of the countries in Africa voted for that WHO guy, Tedros in 2017.
And look at what happened with COVID.
yep and see we will suffer the consequences
Of _course_ this has something to do with the UN.
Exactly. I was waiting for that too. Its probably one of the main reasons for all this so called help they are not only giving to Africa but around the world. Most of the Island nations in the South Pacific are in debt to China also.
4:58 *"there are too many of thesse projects to even COUNT. and honestly if you take it as a whole a lot of these projects has been a major benefit and stimulus to these countries... But WHY IS CHINA DOING THIS!?"*
do i have to say it? I think i can just leave it at that..talking about giving a flying f*ck wether Africa rises or burns then proceeding to take something that he JUST SHOWED WITH DATA is a net gain for us.. and getting GENUINELY ANGRY that it's happening? .. people like this have NO RIGHT to tell me how my country should be run, nor to act like pedagogues of our sovereignty 🤬🤬🤬
And BEST BELIEVE he doesn't care about mentioning the convenient fact that his country and no doubt his Hawkish self support sanctions against african independence movements as "corrupt" because they do the SAME thing colonialists did here (rob us for their gain).. but they are just terrible at hiding
Glad to see so much insights from local Africans in comments. Westerners tend to have negative view about whatever we Chinese do overseas. Nothing is good, good thing has strings attached. Never understand the concept of Win-Win. Debit trap? LOL, we come as business man, negotiating for terms and contracts, if anyone not happy about it, we leave.
I´m from Cape Verde and China as done a shit ton for us and it´s very scary. A lot of small business are chinese owned, we have chinese cartoons on TV and students learn mandarin in highschool. They even made and intire college campus for us.
Naaah G ta falando asr?? oh shit
@@ap17l93 yaa man sério msm
@@Hero-wd9vn fodas, cena q pelo q vc falou eles tao fazendo vcs os novos chineses e so uma questap de tmp pra preconceito e ignorancia apareça
@@ap17l93 espero que não 😬
Wait, so you are complaining because they have "done a shit ton for us"??
Like...if somebody else does a shit ton of things "for" me, I would maybe, just maybe, show a little appreciation instead...
''There's no such thing as a free gift in international relations, everything has strings attached" this was exactly my thought when I saw the title of this video. That statement is so accurate, I see the reality of this regularly where I live (Costa Rica)
The real story about USA and British colonization when they came in they killed millions of people and they turn people into criminals warlords and Slavery's.
You're just like them do not announce the help but wants to benefit from it. Maybe USA and British has a better way of giving gifts through slavery.
Africa has been looted without any infrastructure or growth by others.
And China doesn’t obligate the countries to take debts. The main african’s debts does not to China.
How can Africa grow then?
@@huitonghwang6594 sheeeeesh be polite or u gonna get wrecked in the street like all those asian
@@daquieshakeaundra2854 same to you
They used the same B's Europe used some African nations still paying debt to Europe they really don't owe
The usage of The Office clip is sending me. One of the best episodes of the show 😂
I love your journalism Johnny Harris.
Actually, Swaziland changed her name to Eswatini a few years back. Poor Swaziland can't get neither investment nor people call her name right :(
no1 cares
Africans are getting the name right, as for the others they are really irreverent at this point
@@Drekel Well people do care about Swaziland, considering the video is partly centred around it.
@@Drekel when you don't have anything good to say, you're better off shutting your mouth
@@user-sb4th2et8l this video is basically about bashing china.
"Swaziland (Eswatini) is the only holdout from all of this"
_Sad Gambian Noises_
Swaziland - Switzerland
@@klapiny Swederland?
@@walterbrunswick swissland?
The Gambia doesn't have any Chinese investment because it's so small China didn't even notice it on the list of countries to influence.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 They probably might eventually try to tackle The Gambia with projects too
However as a nigerian engineering student the local labor (construction worker) prefer the Chinese and European contractor to local contractors because most times because they pay better they do not mind the discrimination and China is in charge of our gravel mining industries and geological services but we do not study geology so kind of filling the vacuum
Also one of the major reason for China's interest in Africa are energy metals Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Lithium and other rare earth metals found in abundance in Africa. No matter where they are extracted which btw mostly done by China, are processed mostly in China. This one of the major reason why China is already ahead in Solar energy production and now the Electrical energy vehicles race.
"No nation has friends only interests!" Charles de Gaulle
way before him, Lord Palmerston said: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow"
And bots to keep telling everyone it’s ok
@@javiersee8606 Very true
@@javiersee8606 yea Singapore still has interest you can be nuetral but you still have goals
That came from Disraeli, I believe.
Keeps asking what is China's motive, but he never really hits the mark. There are 3 types of motives for China.
1) short term economic motives involves exporting China's excessive construction capacities. These projects keeps the Chinese construction sector growing, all those constructions needs materials and expertise, a railroad projects requires concrete, steel, to the smallest things like seat covers or the fire extinguishers, all of these things can be bought from China.
So China is using its massive US dollar foreign reserves to boost demand in Chinese goods and materials, but doing it abroad. This is seriously a smart move.
2) political motives, Africa as a continents has the most sovereign nations of all continents, 54. That's very useful in the UN general assembly.
3) long term economic goals. China seeks to develop Africa into a market for Chinese goods as well as capital goods, this needs to involve building up a stable supply chain for manufacturing in Africa. These economies would then need to buy Chinese machineries.
Factories set up through Chinese investment, would also prioritize Chinese machineries and materials. This would create a symbiotic relationship between China and Africa.
So the ultimate goal for China is to build up Africa, which is why the often touted, "debt trap" doesn't make any sense. China wants to make a good return in their investment, NOT hoping for the African country to default on its debt, something that hurts China financially. And would be detrimental to the long term goal of China in Africa.
Very well said! Falling into the debt trap is definitely the last thing that China wants to see happens on those countries. But there is a potential drawback. As the ecnomical tie between China and Africa gets stabler, the racial tension between two peoples will emerge since the human resources are more frequently exchanged. This is something that non-Chinese usually can't see. Chinese society is very conservative in terms of racial equality.
Thank you, an honest analysis unlike some stupid Westerners who demonize China and ignore that French, British and American foriegn policy is worse than what they try to paint China as. Some of them seem to forget that the IMF and World Bank require countries to privatize and pass austerity measures and when America doesn't like a leader they overthrow them or kill them off including the democratically elected ones such as Zelaya in Honduras in 2009. Then there's France that basically controls some African countries' currencies.
这个评论是最正确的中国目的
awesome video! Thank you!
Great content, good to know this
As a Kenyan,dude you've captured the FRUSTRATION of the Kenyan people with SGR Train project perfectly. It's left us with more problems than solutions. And if I may add,it has killed the truck industry at the costal town of Mombasa,by forcing goods from the port to use the train alone. Now if you kill that industry, you single handedly kill easily more than 20 dotted towns and micro industries on the main highway to the rest of Kenya,Uganda and South Sudan. It's maddening. Great video.
We need more Africans like you to speak out publicly about what is happening so the international community can understand.
Man didnt even think of that but that makes a lot of sense. What would be the best way forward you reckon?
Talk about the white U.S dropping bombs and funding Islamic militants in Africa
@@bazle64 Sources?
technology will kill some jobs but also create new ones, the new ones create higher education, which the people of the nation will have to strive for. In return, the civilization progresses. If you want people to aspire to be a truck driver for the next 2-3 generation so be it. But building create engineers
The saying “ Beware Greeks bearing gifts” is applicable now as it was in the days of Troy. Let’s not forget that it is not only the Chinese that do this sort of shit.
also，“Thanks ExpressVPN for sponsoring today’s video.”under the video，ExpressVPN may know more about the “gift”.
拜登：每年拨款3亿美元“搞臭中国”
but the question is whyafrican goverments accept debts that they won't be able to pay in future? they think soon will grow and be a strong economy able to pay debts?
This is definitely not slavery, so there's that. Africa needs to get their priorities aligned and enforce regulation
@@fdasfsjgasdfwe what chinese goverment does is strategy not gifts, you say west put spies but what China did in african goverment buildings?
Whatever China's motivations are, these projects are helping push Africa's industrialization without all the RND costs needed to come up with these projects. This is allowing for a push for the privatization of infrastructure, an industry that is either new or i never knew existed. This will allow Africa to develop incredibly fast while being able to focus on current and future technology rather than having to waste time and money trying to for example figure out how to design and build a car at cost. Many countries are involved in this area, turkey for example is also building rail in Tanzania i believe. Being that there is so much money involved, I'm sure there are hundreds of millions going missing here and there but, it's still better than sending spare change to the continent and expecting people to lift themselves up by their bootstraps as these projects are already generating billions in revenue and taxes.
It’s not only Africa, China is also coming to Latin America. Especially here in Brazil chinese government is buying power plants, airports and all kinds of infrastructure through Brazilian auctions
I am Kenyan. The railway funding story is true. However I put all negative outcomes at the feet of Kenyan leaders and ultimately myself who chose these leaders. My fellow Africans, we need to frame our own narratives and not rely on other people's interpretation of events.
Everyone including the US has massive Chinese debt. The problem we have in Kenya is we walk to the negotiating table like emasculated beings.
This is a business relationship - they have capital , we have undeveloped high growth, high return industries.
Nobody is going to help us including bleeding heart Americans with a woishe attitude towards us - they are annoying and super emasculating.
We need to grow some balls and negotiate as true equals at the table.
Chinese are not evil. Unchecked empires invading your land is evil. At least this time they are not holding a gun to our head.
The British invaded us, decimated our institutions and left us with a confused identity - trauma which we are still trying to heal from.
This time we have a choice on the terms of engagement.
Well said. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
Very well said. This video heavily implied that African nations have no choice but to go into business with China which obviously isn't true.
Well said. They are giving a win-win formula unlike supporting rebel groups which it's only negative to us
I agree the British even looted India but I would say maan you have to build your nation on your own
China is clearly building things FOR YOU this is not the waay, you may again go into the same trauma
Love from India
@@spaceexplorer5481 but I don't think so if America has ever supported rebels group in India in order to exploit your home country like look at the situation for most African countries so it's rather to expand our economy with the debt rather than being held at gunpoint by western imperialists the positive side outweighs the negative side
Swaziland changed its name pretty recently to “Eswatini”, think it’s closer to the native Swazi name and to stop getting it confused with Switzerland, not sure how people got that confused tho not very similar
I was so put off by this oversight in the video. Johnny researches so well and looks at maps and history all day. How’d he miss this?
You’d be surprised. A place I worked at years ago always got those two mixed up and all I could think of was HOW?!
@@themarcusismael13 It was a recent thing, maybe part of his research on the African continent still mentioned the Swaziland name.
Nigeria & Niger SHOULD HAVE did the same
DECADES ago!
No "White" kids could attempt to pronounce their names,
back in Middle/Elementary/Pre-K schools;
without having their mouths washed out afterwards,
some "Black" kids too.
Ok
Thank for bringing attention to these issues in a very accesible way. You are doing very important work.
China has worked with African States for decades. To say that China is "rushing into Africa" is a sign of sheer ignorance. But then that is atypical of those with 'green eyes' that are barred because of their historical bad behaviour.
I’m Congolese; debt is killing us Africans. Thank you for spreading awareness. Most Africans are ignorant to the Actual cost of dealing with China. Some countries like Botswana have smart leaders who negotiate mutually beneficial loans but for the rest of us with greedy leaders this is colonialism 3.0 not 2.0 because Neo colonialism is something that most African countries have not recovered from, we are still paying back the “debts” we owe to our former colonizers.
how many african lifes have we killed so far? Im actually curious about your sources
please do reply me with your sources
Wow, that was a very informative, revealing and intelligent comment. You covered so much in just a couple of paragraphs.
China aren't debt-trapping like the West does though, they also frequent forgive massive loans given to African countries.
@@kristoffer3000 Because it's Covid times
I love how he understands that this is a powerful nation behavior, and directly addresses that America has also done the same or even worse actions. Having a broad perspective is important and valuable, especially nowadays.
True👍👍👍👍👍
Absolutely!
Trutru
Im a little more okay when America does it.
…I’m American. :D lol
Absolutely right
You made a good point at the Debts part and I, as a Chinese, also wondering about how it will ends up. But I'm really unsure about the cyper bug. There are newspaper making these kind of accusations and China denied all of that. There is no hard evidence at all, not even a screenshot showing that the data is flowing to Shanghai. Maybe it should not be used as a truth to support your statements.
Johnny, great job I'm from Mali this story is like fish and the fisherman. fish think that fisherman come to feed them. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say here. That's the relationship between Africa and China and the world in general. At least Johnny is an American who criticize or say what other can't. That is impressive. All of my respect Johnny. But no Chinese ever done that because they do not have the guts to do so. Africa, let's be the fisherman not the fish.
That Kenyan railway is literally an episode of The Simpsons, “Marge vs. the Monorail”
Xi Jinping: "Why I've built Monorails in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Meru and by gum it put them on the map!"
可以把这个铁路捣毁掉，把中国在非洲建造的建筑都捣毁掉，欢迎美国的军队给你们送来民主和战争。
@@haiwang2857 "We can smash this railway and destroy all the buildings built in Africa. Welcome the American army to send you democracy and war"...
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Holy shit, exactly!
it happens with roads and so much other shit in Africa. its so sad. its normal people that suffer
So China is like that friendly credit card company that will always be there for you.
@James Bond What?
But they may spy on you xD
It is more like a student loan rather than a credit card debt. The debts are not for some entertainment purpose. The debt are for infrastructure development, which is essential for local people to get rid of poverty. Yes, the goverment offer you a student loan to help you learn new skills so they can collect more tax from you in the end. But, IT'S A WIN-WIN.
@@xlli4276 Yeah I really wouldn't call this a win-win, so much as a win- not immediately lose. China definitely wins by holding leverage over these nations but these nations won't be winning in the future. Sure they get shiny new infrastructure but that infrastructure isn't really solving the big issues these countries are facing while simultaneously putting them into deep debt. China is basically doing everything the US has been doing for the past 70 years while simultaneously criticizing them for their international policy. They are easily the most hypocritical nation on earth, right up there with the US.
but if your credit card loan u the money and build the house for you to live in,, with Ac ,, LOL ? u don't think u should pay it back as term agreed ? please let me know what card company don't require pay back the money u borrowed ? i like to know one too ! christmas is only 6 months away !
Well a Chinese "rush" into Africa would mostly likely be more benign than the European rush to Africa from 1885-1914.
As someone who personally overseen Chinese projects in Africa (I am not going to name the countries) you're right about everything except one, the Chinese bring their own cheap labor from China and they barley hire from the local population unless it's part of the contract. The Chinese do not do it because their notice slow progress of the project and a lot of mistakes when hiring locals for the job as the Chinese are very hard working. So no they are not looking for cheap labor (at least not currently)
History doesn't repeat itself, but damn it sure does love to rhyme.
😄🌻🥗🍥 Rice and shine 🍚
If you believe history isn't on repeat, your sorely lacking common knowledge.
You sure about that
@@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery technically, due to physics, no moment is the same as any before or after it. Every second is unique. So although society simplifies it and says “history repeats itself” no series of events can be the same, so the OP is correct; it rhymes.
History repeats itself a lot. Fuck mark twain
Centuries of Western colonialism and imperialism in Africa has yielded NO benefit to Africans. Only the colonialists have benefited. It happened to China and India too.
@Sourav Dey uh...do they?
@Sourav Dey same for Chinese people
They look down on black people
@@sorrybro4890 but at least they take and give, as opposed to the West. Africans have a blessed continent. We have all we need, all we care is about stability, and we don’t have it cuz we’re part of a global system that only cares about fckng us up.
@@meocean5499 bro the Chinese are so racist to extend that they open only Chinese restaurants in African countries
Like wtf if you hate black people just don’t come
Same for arabs and Indians
We hate colonialism so much!!! THX~
Wow you did great research 👏
Just a small correction. The Map of Somalia 🇸🇴 is wrong. Under colonial Somalia were divided into British somaliland and Italian Somaliland but after the independence they United and they are still United.
Finally ! This is such an overdue video on a topic that people in the west should know. As a Chinese person I’ve known about this for many years now but frustrated that no one outside China and Africa knows about it
@PANDEMIC BY CCP AND XITLER if he turns off his vpn he cant access internet (well except chinese but censored one)
@PANDEMIC BY CCP AND XITLER but, Nat Zhao is critiquing the CCP, not every Chinese person is a member of the CCP.
Are you real Chinese or Chinese American or Chinese in any other western nation
I don’t think there has been a lot of coverage because people are waiting for the other shoe to drop. For the most part these projects have been a tremendous boon to their African countries, and so far China has been extremely generous with low interest rates allowing payback deferrals and often loan forgiveness. People are waiting to see if China is attempting to build partnerships like the US Marshal plan or attempting to act like a imperial power like the US did in South America.
@@PLKartofel Why is that every racist person thinks a "Chinese person" automatically lives in China?
The country is no longer called "Swaziland". In 2018 they changed their name to "Eswatini".
Word?
@@DialloMoore503 Yeah but it more or less still means the same thing it’s just is now in it’s traditional language
What is the background music at 2:10? i really want to know it
As an African (Nigerian to be exact) Swaziland looks fabulous this time of year🙂
First of all, excuse the username, it's from a video game character i like.
I am South African and this video shed some light on a cartoon illustration by Zapiro (famous South African cartoonist). There were 2 people in the picture: 1 was a Chinese official walking off with the continent of Africa in a wheelbarrow and the other person was the South African president counting the money he'd just gotten from the Chinese.
The image NEVER left me and today...TODAY! I finally understand why it bothered me so heavily.
Thanks for the vid
is he getting paid Chinese currency or U.S. currency in the comical depiction?
I'm not sure BUT i think it takes a very lot of Chinese currency to equate to a U.S. dollar,
but i'm not up to date on the current currency conversions.
@@hlgstowig9405 I think it was 6 yuan to the dollar last time I was in mainland China
@@hlgstowig9405 I honestly have no recollection of what currency the president was holding. It was a years ago that cartoon strip was made.
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@@hlgstowig9405 it literally doesn't matter. if the valuation of products are identical and the buying power is the same then the actual comparative value of nominal quantities of different currencies means absolutely nothing. if it costs $6 CAD or AUD to buy something thats $4 USD or 3 GBP or EUR, in each respective country and $6 CAD/AUD = $4 USD = 3 GBP/EUR, everyone is paying exactly the same price and the currencies and goods will continue to be interchangeable relative to its international value. if the average australian makes $90,000 AUD / year and the average american makes $30,000 USD a year when the currencies are $6 AUD = $4 USD, the average australian is making 2.2x more money than the average american. if things cost 2.2x more in australia, then the spending power of the australian will be the same as the american.
P.S. i originally wanted to use $60,000 AUD as an easy in your head comparison, knowing it was slightly low, and $30,000 USD thinking it would be extremely low, then i checked and the australian salary is actually $90,000 and the us salary was pretty much correct. americans are just poor lol. also the exchange rate i used was slightly off because i was using pre covid numbers. its actually $6 AUD to $4.6 USD. i dont think things are 2.2x as expensive in australia as america (they are more expensive, just not 2.2x) so the buying power in australia is higher than america, irrespective of the value of the currency. that means an australian travelling to america with his AUD will be able to buy a lot more than an american travelling to australia with their USD.
I just wrote my term paper on the relationship between China and Africa for my Intro to Africa contemporary course. I did so much research on this topic and its nice to see that others are interested in this too! Thank you for talking about African narrative that is often ignored
If you finish your research, will you release it?
I wish you do
Cool, out of curiosity are you from out of Africa or in it?
@@malachaiuys711 in africa
I'm from Zimbabwe🇿🇼
Nice bro, i would like to read
That road in Lesotho that china built. (I live in South Africa) and actually was at the Sani pass when the Chinese were building it. Is actually just being built to get minerals out of the country to the port of Durban. The locals were actually trying to slow down the progress, because for many years it’s brought a lot of tourism, being a difficult pass to journey on was part of the experience and what attracted tourists to the pass and Lesotho.
Also, if to recognize Taiwan as an independent country, its official name is Republic of CHINA, not Taiwan.
I remember my mom and I were driving along sangotedo and there was a head board sign In Mandarin freaking MANDARIN ..... I mean it’s not like I have a problem with mandarin but it just gave me colonial vibes .
Nigerian btw 🇳🇬
Never in a 100 years did I expect to see Sangotedo in a RUclips comment section 😂😂😂
u mean they should speak English ？no colonial vibes？same logic，because u are English speaker
@@tearing9288 English a Lingua Franca that has taken the whole world... Chinese? not much, I know is a board sign so Chinese workers can understand where they are or the zone they are working at, but watch the video and see how some of them treat the coworkers, it's amazing how people don't know how racist some Chinese are... my man here has a very reasonable concern regarding his country and seeing how some bastards take the land to fuk you up through debt, to slave you through debt, then THAT is some colonial vibes. Btw I think you are a Wu Mao
You realize that you speak English, right?
if it was in english , does it give you vibes too ?
In Kenya, the citizens are literally signing petitions for our government to stop receiving loans
It wont happen, politicians take a juicy %.
wise up.
Regardless this is going to make there life's better, and that's a problem for EU because they want to continue the exploration of African nations dry
If the African governments listened to petitions alone, the continent wouldn’t have landed in this plight in the first place. Perhaps fix the corruption then fix the debt.
@@ForeverARTpower Companies in EU, who want to exploit Africa are a disgrace to Europe.
You need to see further my brother, what contribute a Kenya's 5 times GDP/per capita growth since 2000, or how did China grow so fast in the last couple decades... INFRASTRUCTURE!!! Did the western way worked before? the last couple hundred years. it was being divided and kept weak by colonialists, exploited at the lowest cost... and every investment are based on certain trust. Sad thing is the Westerners never saw African as equal human being to even consider invest before now... and now we call China setting up debt trap... COME ON man
Curious what would you say to polymatter’s video on the same subject.
Can you make a video on France's economic grip on Africa?