I'm not sure what Hannah Ryder is talking about. China - or rather the Chinese regime, since the Chinese people have no say in who they're governed by nor how - does not have to terrorize the people of the African nations with which it does business because in many cases the governments of those nations do the terrorizing for it. And once it receives an invitation to plunder, it sets about paying kleptocratic rulers for access to national resources that belong rather to the people of Africa - not to the kleptocrats.



The effects of past examples of colonialism on the peoples subjected to it were ruinous, in economic, political, social, and psychological terms. Colonizers, often with the complicity of settler communities and native collaborators, stripped the colony of its natural and human resources. These facts are indisputable. But no one can honestly claim that this is not also happening in Africa under Chinese influence. It obviously is, and pointing this out certainly does NOT diminish the colonial crimes of the past. The two forms of colonialism outlined here are not mutually exclusive. Those who imply that they are - those like Hannah Ryder - actively whitewash the present.



A racket is a racket. And in this case China is the culprit, the enabler, and very much a beneficiary at the expense of the African people.