Across the continent, Chinese companies are building highways, railways, sports stadiums, mass housing complexes, and sometimes entire cities.
But China isn’t just providing the manpower to fuel quickly urbanizing African cities. It is exporting its own version of urbanization, creating cities and economic zones that look remarkably similar to Chinese ones.
— qz.com
Related in the Archinect News:
13 Comments
This will end well...
What a nightmare! People as numbers.
C'est le Plan Voisin!
at least posting a rare pepe would have been an unexpected shitpost.
bonne soiree, fauves.
So it's bad because it's not Western colonialism?
What do chines take in return?
The third world has a choice: sign up with China and get all kinds of economic and development assistance in exchange for resources or sign up with the US and to get repeatedly raped and pillaged. The former actually provides some protection from the latter.
Orwellian
China protects from economic rape and pillage how? Chinese developers were arguably complicit with genocide in Sudan.
China is part of the West now......there is no other, has been that way for a long time homies........both the Chinese and USA offer low grade forms of existence,the Chinese is straight forward - their shit is cheap and sheetrock may contain sulfer and your child may die from eating the lead poisoned formadahyde filled teddy bear........USA is stealth - all the freedom you want so you can kill yourself fulfilling all your pesumed desires through excessiveness, here have some diabetes and a hug you fat fucking child munching on twinkies and sippong soda all day watching happiness in Sponge Bob..............anyway the development of cities to mine resources is modern archicture 101 in action, does the West get money for be copied by the Chinese?
China didn't invent some terrorist government to justify military invasion of Somalia on humanitarian grounds. They brokered a deal with the Sudanese government, which is waging war in Darfur. China is blamed because oil revenue funds the government of Sudan.
The Dafur crisis began years after China started pumping oil there. The Cold War is alive and well in Somalia and the US has an active hand in actions there beyond economic sanctions. We were slow to the gate just because we were so very busy elsewhere ... which hasn't prevented us from working with Janjaweed and other militia groups.
+++Olaf
The problem is that our entire planet is based on a centralized system of societies. It does not matter what ism it is calling itself...It is the model of centralization that is the problem.
Decentralization is the # 1 threat to power, and the #1 greatest hope we have for the longevity of humanity.
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.