halophoenix Sep 30, 2008 08:43PM sighs. I'm distressed for having read that, but like most of Hitchens' journalism, I'm glad I did.
davidd asks Oct 01, 2008 03:05AM if China can dominate the Congo for five-billion dollars in "loans," imagine what could be done with, say, seven-hundred billion dollars.
davidd asks Oct 01, 2008 03:05AM is China's presence any worse than that of Belgium, or Britain, or France, or....
davidd asks Oct 01, 2008 03:03AM a British journalist writing like this is the pot calling the kettle black.
halophoenix says Oct 01, 2008 04:11AM there are plenty of solutions, but none in retrograde assumptions.
halophoenix says Oct 01, 2008 04:12AM Africa's quality of life and governance will improve as more people feel as though t hey have a stake in their community of nations' success
halophoenix says Oct 01, 2008 04:12AM and that will be accomplished through proactive economic opportunity, not aid with strings attached or loans in exchange for slave labor.
halophoenix says Oct 01, 2008 04:13AM your people shouldn't be your collateral. An excellent example of the type of success I'm referring to:
halophoenix says Oct 01, 2008 04:11AM Additionally, Hitchens' nationality shouldn't be a question here, as tempting as that morsel might be. Would it be better he were american?
davidd says Oct 01, 2008 04:43AM if Hitchens were American, the article would have featured twice the accusatory drama & bloodshed and little of the actual substance!
davidd says Oct 01, 2008 04:44AM btw: I saw some of the Chinese cave dwellings to which he refers, & even cajoled a Chinese gov't guide into talking, briefly, about them!
pastilla was Oct 01, 2008 02:31PM fascinated with BoingBoing TV piece, halophoenix. Thanks for sharing that.
