Name: Watch students call out China’s “hypocritical” foreign policy actions in Africa
Uploaded: 2024-12-29T23:33:44.000Z
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So you've mentioned that China has a no-interference policy with other states, and that states should have their own ability to dictate their way of life or just their existence.

But wouldn't you say that China's presence all over Africa is in a way an exercise of some sort of power, a soft power of sorts, and does that not contradict with the foreign policy of China?

Before China's extensive engagement with Africa, Africa itself is a forgotten continent.

That's generally being said by Western countries.

Africa after decolonization was more or less the forgotten continent.

Western countries did not want to engage it for whatever reason.

China went in, China treated every African country as brother and sister, and China really invested hugely in Africa.

Now, many other countries are talking about engaging with Africa, including the United States, many European countries, India, for example.

The more, the better, because Africa should not be a monopoly for any other country, not for China, not for anyone else.

Africa is for the African people, and the taste of the pudding is always, you should not be a judge yourself.

You go to African country and ask them whether they like building a road, whether they like building a gymnasium, et cetera.

That is the only truth, because don't be lectured by other countries about what value African countries should have.

The African value will be different from many other continents, for example.

The other countries in other continents will need to help the African country to build up their infrastructure, to build their manufacturing capabilities, and that is the only goal for China.

China has no colonial objective for African countries.

China is so far away physically from Africa.

Whatever China's doing, China's doing the same in ASEAN countries, in Latin American countries, for example, and this is a sign of China's philosophy.

That is, if we build our pillars of transformation, we want to share that with you.

If we believe building road is the only way out, we help you to build the road.  Thank you, my name is Carl Jumbo, freshman student at Georgetown University.

Why I'm asking, you're saying that, okay, in Africa, you allow some building, some infrastructure to be there.

We have the second largest lithium reserves, but we're at the brink of losing ownership of all of these lithium reserves just because China built a parliament for my country.

So if you're saying that you are promoting the sovereignty of nations, of countries, but you're taking our own parliament away, and let's say the airport in Kenya, for example, are you not being hypocritical?

You had your election several years ago, and the presidential candidate was very much against China.

He's elected as the president, and once he's in his office, he changed his mind because he knows for sure that for Zimbabwe development, China is the main contributor for the Zimbabwean economic development.

If you do not agree with me, go back to your country, talk to your government, and check out over the past 30 years which country has invested most heavily in your great country.

China has dealt with Zimbabwe governments for several decades, including your great presidents, for example, and I would say China-Zimbabwe economic cooperation has helped the economic transformation in Zimbabwe in building up infrastructure facilities and in building up manufacturing capabilities of your country.