cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51582076
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51581549
Experts are warning that China’s recently launched Global Governance Initiative (GGI) represents a threat to developing nations by promoting authoritarianism through digital surveillance and repression.
The adoption of “techno-authoritarianism,” defined as the use of digital information technology by governments to surveil, repress, and manipulate populations, poses significant risks to African nations, primarily by undermining democratic processes, human rights and long-term political stability.
Retired Col. DCS Mayal, a former intelligence officer in the Indian Army, noted a severe lack of transparency that pervades China’s governance model, saying that the initiative transforms soft power into “invisible sharp edges.”
“GGI strategies cultivate Global South dependencies, implant pervasive intelligence networks, and normalise Chinese norms,” he wrote in an April 13 brief for the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation.
He added: “Beijing promotes norms that legitimise state-level surveillance infrastructure, while positioning Chinese technological standards as globally accepted models.”
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As a policy framework, China’s new initiative seeks to restructure international affairs in its favor by attempting to change multilateral international institutions like the United Nations. However, experts say its goal is to replace global structures with a China-centric model that prioritizes the ruling regime’s power over established African democratic norms.
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China has provided significant infrastructure funding on the [African] continent in recent years, but many African nations are struggling with enormous loan repayments. Politicians in some countries, such as Kenya and Angola, have expressed concern that China has created financial dependency and potentially could seize strategic assets in their countries. The security governance models that China pushes also have raised concerns that they undermine the principle of an apolitical military and seek to empowerauthoritarian-leaning ruling parties on the continent.
“By using the military to decimate the opposition, ruling parties in some sub-Saharan African countries have effectively created one-party states,” Africa-China blogger Amodani Gariba told The Africa Center for Strategic Studies in 2025. “Though the economic cooperation China has with Africa has had a tremendous impact on Africans, China’s ambitions to extend its ties into military cooperation could worsen the already bad governance situation on the continent.”
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Experts are warning
What experts? Do these experts have any links to DC think tanks or neoconservative orgs?
Retired Col. DCS Mayal, a former intelligence officer in the Indian Army
They have got to be joking
Africa-China blogger Amodani Gariba told The Africa Center for Strategic Studies in 2025…
Africa Center for Strategic Studies? I wonder what their deal is
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) is self-described as “a U.S. Department of Defense institution established and funded by Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa and serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, and exchange of ideas involving military and civilian participants.”
lmao the fuckin gall of these people is incredible, government-sponsored “bloggers” are now the caliber of “experts” these Western imperialism lovers have to rely on
Thank god China will win
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I’m an expert in best smart boys and I will confirm this
Too many good boy particles leaking out, my detector exploded! (aka Edie makes another bad video)
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Holy shit The Africa Center for Strategic Studies is literally owned by the Department of War, like how people fall to that.
Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. As for those anti-imperialists who don’t participate in this festival of xenophobia — and here I include myself — we have our own elitist consolation: we accept the tragedy of masses of gullible sheeple falling for cunning propaganda because having overcome it flatters our own intelligence. The more we condemn society’s stupidity, the smarter we feel in comparison.
But am I not just worsening the problem, aggravating our hopelessness, by criticizing the critics in a way that suggests that no one escapes ideological self-flattery? I don’t think so. Paradoxically, it brings us all back to a more even and possibility-rich playing field.
The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda — organs of coercion and consent. We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.
STOP NOTICING
The American genociders are at it again
the nerve to call it “bilateral and multilateral” is insane 😂
ADF is a professional military magazine published quarterly by U.S. Africa Command to provide an international forum for African security professionals.
Don’t laugh!
Pictured: President Xi writing an EDM song in FL Studio. This is techno authoritarianism.
Pictured: President Xi programming a bassline into a Roland TB-303 for later playback through a distortion pedal. This is acid house authoritarianism.Ctrl+f -> Palantir
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There’s always a racist implication that Africans are too dumb or naïve to make their own decisions. Colonial mindset alert!
“Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.”
Colonizers and their subtle white supremacy
God forbid the africans exert any amount of authority over their own countries whatsoever
So it’s just another one of those “China is doing super mega evil commie surveillance, so we get to also do surveillance.” kind of articles, trying to normalise it by comparing their behaviour to hypothetical fearmongering about the evil enemy.
And looking at the article, at least they did find an actual African guy to parrot western talking points about Big Bad China, normally they can’t even be bothered to do that. So props to them for finding some random African dude who hates Chinese people and is willing to sell their nation and their continent out to the west I suppose.
It was always the basic contention that China will do business with whoever and that business empowers societies basically as they already are, in accordance to their needs. You can have a junta acquiring internet controls or a parliament contracting infrastructure, the Chinese and basically only the Chinese can deliver the goods with a realistic price tag to them. On the side you had middling players and in Subsaharan Africa that means Spain, France, Brazil and Turkey. But China is the world’s largest economy and it shows.
That said since this is coming out of India, odds are they are just pissed that China is muscling in on their turf. ‘China does hardware and manufacturing, we do telecomms and services’ used to be a thing in India and they saw the sales of Huawei shit to the GCC countries as a national threat. Easy to forget, but the Sri Lanka fake news nonsense was birthed not in the West but in India.
As a policy framework, China’s new initiative seeks to restructure international affairs in its favor by attempting to change multilateral international institutions like the United Nations. However, experts say its goal is to replace global structures with a China-centric model that prioritizes the ruling regime’s power over established African democratic norms.
Indeed, china created a parallel institution to undermine the UN named the “board of peace” and invited all of its lackeys to it, oh wait that was the US!
And that’s why we need OS level identification on all machines!
Here’s how I think they come up with these articles.
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Open CNN and find the first country they fearmonger about
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Open anarchist library and pick a random topic
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Find the last war crime Israel confessed to
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Throw a dart at a globe
Combine and enjoy!
1____ is normalizing 2____, which is when 3____, which will have a negative impact on 4____.
Here’s mine:
Iran is normalizing Trotskyism, which is when you violate a ceasefire under the guise of targeting a foreign officer, which will have a negative impact on Dayton, Ohio.
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