Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that Africa’s resources should not be used as a tool for geopolitical rivalry, as the United States steps up efforts to secure critical minerals on a continent where Chinese companies have major mining interests. “Africa’s resources belong to Africa,” Xi told Botswana’s President Duma Boko in Beijing on Tuesday, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. He said it was a “historical injustice” that an unfair international division of labour had left the…
The irony of Hus statements compared to the Chinese practice of importing Chinese labour and locking out the local labour pool.
China prefers to pay the government directly, which funds social programs like schools and hospitals.
Do you really think that’s worse than paying company scrip as piece rate to the local “labor pool”?
That’s some perverse logic you got there.
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A Chinese mine in Canada was sued for labour violations. They refused to hire trained licensed locals with experience and instead wanted to bring in hundreds of foreigners to work the site. It was a common enough practice that the different trade groups coordinated and recorded their applications for layer reference
Yeah, Canada has labor laws. Duh. You were talking about countries like the DRC.
China and Russia are helping liberate Africa from centuries of still ongoing colonialism.
When China or Russian pulls shit like the CFA franc, then you can talk.
Company scrip.
What the fuck.
Do you even know what the CFA franc is? First time you’ve heard of it?