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CSUSB professor comments on China’s rising economic influence in AfricaAtlanta Black StarSept. 16, 2018Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam, who teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino, was interviewed for an article about China’s increasing economic influence on African nations.In the interview, he calls Chinese neocolonialism in Africa “the dragon eating the lion and the cheetah.” He counters the popular notion that China is developing African infrastructure in a “win-win” scenario.“China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, laborers and who knows what else,” he wrote, adding that China continues to ensnare Africa in its “neocolonial trap” through billions of dollars in loans, and by using “debt relief to obtain exclusive rights to a nation’s natural resources and build military bases.”The Chinese presence in Africa, he claims, has been a gift to African dictators and has fueled anti-Chinese resentment among common people in Africa.Read the complete article at “China threatens sovereignty of several African nations as it takes over their resources to cover debt.”
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