Because the west always project itself on others. It has been clear for decades that the west want to potrait China to be the new imperialist and colonialist no better than the west themselves, started by calling China "new colonialism in Africa" decades ago.
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Dangote is I think the richest man in Africa iirc. He is now build a fertilizer unit in Ethiopia and working with Chinese partners. His refinery in Nigeria also had a lot of help from China Inc. So, China is helping African countries be more self sufficient.
Why did they stop before ?
Yeah Chinas presence is all over Africa. All the African countries I have been to, saw Chinese presence everywhere, especially big infrastructure projects and a growing sizable Chinese community as well . Plus Africans are generally welcoming people to everyone to be honest. So guess that helps as well. Though they are not well regarded outside their continent lol
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Though they are not well regarded outside their continent lol.
Isn't that very obvious when these are reported in Western media? African people themselves know better than the reporters from the western media.
I meant Africans are not well regarded outside their continent(including in China/Asia as well). However , I think apart from race, there’s also the issue of poverty, since Africa is almost always portrayed in the western and even Asian/Chinese media (who often get their news about those places from western sources as well) with poverty/wars/malnutrition/epidemics etc etc. So it also affects people’s mindset, biases and stereotypes. So most people are often surprised when they travel to Africa for the first time , they are surprised to see some African countries with decent infrastructure, social life, order etc . So they are surprised to see it’s not like the image they were portrayed . They then realize that you can’t put all African countries in the same basket. There are indeed some who faced severe challenges of wars etc like Eastern Congo, east Sudan etc but there are many African countries who face no such issues and are doing fairly well actually and where people actually live a good life .
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Cuba should’ve worked on this earlier. No excuse for them when Pakistan is able to generate 25 percent of its power through solar due to price cuts in solar panels.