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Chinese firm building ‘New York of Africa’ with US$7b South African project

China will just take over Africa, either politically and economically or militarily.

I'd cross out militarily. Politically there will perhaps be more cooperation in some form and economically there probably already is a lot of cooperation.

I think you're blowing things out of proportion.
 
I'd cross out militarily. Politically there will perhaps be more cooperation in some form and economically there probably already is a lot of cooperation.

I think you're blowing things out of proportion.

Why do you say they will not use force?
 
Why would they want to get embroiled with wasting money like that in Africa?

The Chinese are smarter than that.

Easy, to acquire wealth, land, and resources.

Really? Coming from the same nation that killed 80,000,000 of the own countrymen you would be shocked how dumb they can be.
 
Easy, to acquire wealth, land, and resources.

Really? Coming from the same nation that killed 80,000,000 of the own countrymen you would be shocked how dumb they can be.

I said "smarter" not "smartest."

No, Africa would not be easy to acquire. The ME sure as hell wasn't all that easy for us to acquire and we would undoubtedly shove some heavy equipment towards the Africans if they started fighting the Chinese.
 
Easy, to acquire wealth, land, and resources.

Really? Coming from the same nation that killed 80,000,000 of the own countrymen you would be shocked how dumb they can be.
The Chinese killed 80 million of their own? Where are you getting this from?
 
-- No, Africa would not be easy to acquire. The ME sure as hell wasn't all that easy for us to acquire and we would undoubtedly shove some heavy equipment towards the Africans if they started fighting the Chinese.

Aw.. you got in first.
 
I said "smarter" not "smartest."

No, Africa would not be easy to acquire. The ME sure as hell wasn't all that easy for us to acquire and we would undoubtedly shove some heavy equipment towards the Africans if they started fighting the Chinese.

No we would not. And why would we?

Also what would happen if we were bankrupt as a nation, how could we afford it?

Furthermore China would just "clear" the natives out. Strict kill on site rules of engagement.
 
Taking Africa sounds relatively difficult. That's a lot of guerillas who can blow up your stuff, even assuming the West does nothing.

With what? IEDs?

This is China, they will just bomb every cites and village in the ground.
 
No we would not. And why would we?

Also what would happen if we were bankrupt as a nation, how could we afford it?

Furthermore China would just "clear" the natives out. Strict kill on site rules of engagement.

Even if China simply went "kill on sight" that would serve to do nothing other than completely diminish any possible chance of local allies, which would REALLY hurt their cause.

Yes, we would give the Africans weapons in a proxy war against China. It'd be an extremely easy way to shave huge amounts of Chinese power off for relatively low cost.

Even if we were magically bankrupt, we would send some hardware. A couple rockets with small arms doesn't kill us, but it can sure as hell kill the Chinese. Look back at the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and what sending a couple stingers to the Mujahideen did.
 
They'll bomb every last settlement on a continent? :lamo

Lame.

No, just major centers but if they want to gain total control they will just secure all major food production areas. Starvation is a very effective killer tens of millions of Chinese nationals died that way.
 
Even if China simply went "kill on sight" that would serve to do nothing other than completely diminish any possible chance of local allies, which would REALLY hurt their cause.

Not really why would you want or need local allies when you have all the armor, air power, tech and millions of solders and your end goal is colonization?

Yes, we would give the Africans weapons in a proxy war against China. It'd be an extremely easy way to shave huge amounts of Chinese power off for relatively low cost.

Again, why would we? What is in it for us?

More over what would happen if China decided until we were bankrupt as a nation to launch their plan?

Even if we were magically bankrupt, we would send some hardware.

No, we would not. We would have millions of of any entitlements, people would be rioting in the streets over their kids going hungry you think we would send a cent to other nations? We would not have the mean to take care of ourselves let alone other nations.



A couple rockets with small arms doesn't kill us, but it can sure as hell kill the Chinese. Look back at the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and what sending a couple stingers to the Mujahideen did.

Yeah that worked out so well, right?

I mean its not like that plan did not bite us in the ass or we were having to deal with those stingers for years to come.

Should the Chinese Dragon decide to take Africa, they will take it and we will not do a damn thing to stop them, nor should we.
 
The highest estimated deaths were reported to be 42 million, nowhere near the 80 million you claim.

WOW. . . That's bad 40 million or 80 million. Clearly, you chaps are arguing without realizing what that means. 40 million human cadavers is a chain of bodies 70.000km long. Almost a fifth the distance to the moon! I work with dead bodies and even I fail to comprehend that many a number
 
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...What is even worse is some still think a system that produced such death is a good idea only poorly executed.
 
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