The President of Sri Lanka started pushing to build a new port in a small town at the south end of Sri Lanka because ambitious projects like this make you look like a good, caring politician. The only problem was that everyone, including their own government studies estimated that the port wouldn’t be profitable. But then the President announced that the project had been greenlighted - with help from none other than China.

The port opened in 2012, and the forecasts were right - no one was interested in using this new port. And it’s finances were in the hole. So the President went back to China for another loan, this time for $757 million.So what did they do? They took out another loan from China, this time for $1 billion dollars, to help pay off that upcoming debt payment. It’s safe to say that Sri Lanka found itself at the mercy of the Chinese government. It was drowning in debt payments and was left with an expensive port no one wanted to use. And now, China owns 85% of that port and managed to squeeze 15,000 acres of land around that port as well.

Debt traps, debt diplomacy is nothing new. China is probably just taking a page out of the original master at this game: the US. Why did the US go through all this effort to indebt these Less-Developed Countries, or LDCs? Simple: when you’re a global superpower, you need a lot of resources to stay on top: oil, energy, raw materials, nations under your influence so you can call them up when you need something like votes at the UN, and so on.

Today, China is in a similar position - they’re desperate for energy, money, and resources to continue their astronomical growth to the top.Who knows in the long run what will happen with China's colonialism. China has the ability to be forceful when needed, especially in their sphere. History would say China will follow the old model, but things have radically changed before. China is making mistakes but continues to sell these projects.

7 January 1965Malcolm X (Al Hajj Malik Al Shahbaz) Speaks at Militant Labor Forum, New York City.

Théophile Obenga, linguiste et historien congolais, s’adresse aux africains dans cette thématique complexe de la domination des « races ».
« Qui a peur de la fin de la domination blanche ? », une question sensible explorée par les meilleurs experts autour de Marie-Roger Biloa dans cette édition n°03 de « Africa International ».
Spécialiste de l’Égypte ancienne, disciple de son illustre collègue sénégalais Cheikh Anta Diop, Obenga est l’un des premiers chercheurs africains à déchiffrer couramment les hiéroglyphes et à maîtriser le copte, dérivé de la langue des Pharaons.
Il a mis en évidence la parenté avec plusieurs familles de langues africaines.
Le Professeur Obenga, désormais installé à Brazzaville, a enseigné les civilisations africaines à San Francisco et dirigé le Centre international des civilisations bantu, le CICIBA, à Libreville.

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