Saturday, February 23, 2008

China and the Sudan and Dafur

China bristles at the mention of Dafur. It disdains any hint that it is supporting directly or indirectly Sudan's punative war against its own Muslims in Dafur. It is going to great length to show that it isn't. But it is now matter which way they cut the deck of what's happening in the Sudan. Beijing is there with the aims of any imperialist nation, greedy for resources and markets and influence. Nominally China is a Communist country, but subjectively and realistically it is capitalist to its soul. It is behaving, as its economy is red hot, in a manner which V.I. Lenin wouldn't find out of the ordinary. Has it forgotten the lessons of his 'Imperialism: the highest state of capitalism'? Apparently, it has. China's hunger for raw materials and markets make Africa the gods' given gift to the Chinese. Hitching its wagon to the global economy based on oppression and plunder, China has found Sudan a good partner for there it is developing and funding its oil wealth, and by doing so, arms Khartoum in ways many and multiple, in its 'genocidal' war against the people of Dafur. In consequent, having a heavy hand and presence in Sudan, unwittingly Communist China is fragilising the instability that war is causing not only in the Sudan but in its neighbours to its southeast. So in true capitalist fashion, Xinhua or New China is nothing but an old capitalist whore and exploiter tarted up in gaudy new dress and red lipstick but conveying the veneral diseases of capitalism.

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