China to invest 30 billion USD in Haiti

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Investing in developing countries is NOT the same thing as colonizing them. Nor is it the same thing as owning them.
This whole 'anytime Chinese people invest in a Black country that means slavery is coming back' narrative on here is counter productive.

As the capital of the African Diaspora, I always felt we should all have tried to help Haiti as a collective. Sad.

Their one child policy was one.
They're headed toward a major population crisis as a result of that policy.
 

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Investing in developing countries is NOT the same thing as colonizing them. Nor is it the same thing as owning them.
This whole 'anytime Chinese people invest in a Black country that means slavery is coming back' narrative on here is counter productive.

As the capital of the African Diaspora, I always felt we should all have tried to help Haiti as a collective. Sad.


They're headed toward a major population crisis as a result of that policy.

Did you read the Chinese in Jamaica thread?
 

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Did you read the Chinese in Jamaica thread?
Yeah, I actually had one of the early posts on it, echoing that same sentiment.

Jamaica isn't becoming a 'colony' of China, either.. That's some hyperbolic Dr. Johnson story.
There isn't a social hierarchy emerging that favors the Chinese, or allows them to extract capital based on OUR (or Jamaicans, if you're a tribalist) human and material resources (Which is what I would say modern colonization amounts to.). There aren't random Chinese regional governors or politicians that champion a neo-colonialist popping up (Think: Gupta's in SA.).

In the absence of those overtures, I cannot find anything to justify this assertion. This isn't Zimbabwe, non-black people can own land in our countries..

I absolutely understand that as Black people we need to be wary of 'outsiders', as they were, with regard to our own sovereignty, but if we shun any and all interaction, social, monetary and geopolitical, then we're effectively shutting ourselves out of an increasingly global market. Haiti needs investment, like anywhere else.. And nobody (not even us) have been able to effectuate that, China doing so is not a bad thing.
 
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