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FACT CHECK: Eritrean influencer misinforms about predatory nature of China’s approach in Africa
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Fifty African leaders, including 20 heads of states, attended an annual summit in China’s capital, Beijing, seeking quicker financial solutions to the growing debt crisis, Reuters reported.
The heads of the African nations facing economic and financial crisis due to their debt to China — Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia — also participated in the meeting.
Addressing the forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping claimed that “the China-Africa relationship is now at its best in history,” pledging to invest nearly $51 billion and create a million new jobs across Africa in the next three years.
Yet Beijing failed to provide the highly sought after debt relief to the African nations.
China has long faced criticism for what experts call “debt trap diplomacy,” along with accusations of increased illegal trade and a worsening human rights situation in the African countries.
Pro-China experts like Fikrejesus Amahazion, an educator and research analyst at the Eritrean Center for Strategic Studies in Asmara, dispute the allegations, claiming that the West, including the United States, “target” China with “malicious propaganda and slander under the guise of concern for Africa.”
Amahazion told China Says, a state media company that focuses on China's foreign affairs, that Beijing is out to help Africa fight poverty.
“China and its positive constructive relationship with Africa has delivered myriad tangible benefits to both sides,” he said.
That is misleading.
Through its “debt trap diplomacy,” China became the major shareholder controlling most of Africa’s natural resources, infrastructure and other assets. Beijing-owned businesses in Africa practice the worst forms of child labor, fund violent insurgency, sustain corruption, illegal trade and money laundering.
Amahazion failed to mention that at least 40,000 children, some as young as six, are forced to work in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are 80% owned by Chinese government companies. #factcheck #voanews
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The heads of the African nations facing economic and financial crisis due to their debt to China — Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia — also participated in the meeting.
Addressing the forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping claimed that “the China-Africa relationship is now at its best in history,” pledging to invest nearly $51 billion and create a million new jobs across Africa in the next three years.
Yet Beijing failed to provide the highly sought after debt relief to the African nations.
China has long faced criticism for what experts call “debt trap diplomacy,” along with accusations of increased illegal trade and a worsening human rights situation in the African countries.
Pro-China experts like Fikrejesus Amahazion, an educator and research analyst at the Eritrean Center for Strategic Studies in Asmara, dispute the allegations, claiming that the West, including the United States, “target” China with “malicious propaganda and slander under the guise of concern for Africa.”
Amahazion told China Says, a state media company that focuses on China's foreign affairs, that Beijing is out to help Africa fight poverty.
“China and its positive constructive relationship with Africa has delivered myriad tangible benefits to both sides,” he said.
That is misleading.
Through its “debt trap diplomacy,” China became the major shareholder controlling most of Africa’s natural resources, infrastructure and other assets. Beijing-owned businesses in Africa practice the worst forms of child labor, fund violent insurgency, sustain corruption, illegal trade and money laundering.
Amahazion failed to mention that at least 40,000 children, some as young as six, are forced to work in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are 80% owned by Chinese government companies. #factcheck #voanews
Voice of America (VOA) is the largest U.S. international broadcaster, providing news and information in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of 236.8 million people. VOA produces content for digital, television, and radio platforms. It is easily accessed via your mobile phone and on social media. It is also distributed by satellite, cable, FM and MW, and is carried on a network of approximately 3,000 affiliate stations.
Since its creation in 1942, Voice of America has been committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the news and telling audiences the truth. Through World War II, the Cold War, the fight against global terrorism, and the struggle for freedom around the globe today, VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press.
Connect with VOA News:
#news #voanews
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