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  • China is strategically investing and they don’t care about Africa, only China

    Yes, sure, it’s not altruistic. But there’s a huge difference between non-violent trade relationships which benefit one party more, and also benefit the other party, just less, and purposefully ensuring that an entire continent is in a constant state of civil war and desperate poverty so you can extract the maximum amount of resources through slavery. China’s foreign policy is absolutely for its own benefit but they’re taking a “rising tide lifts all boats” approach there and while there are some specific things which are fair to criticise it’s way better than what other major powers are doing.


















    • Vietnam has an ok public healthcare system given their relatively low wealth, North Korea had one until very recently, those are basically the only other non capitalist countries out there…
    • the socialised healthcare systems in the rest of the world are a legacy of socialist movements, a compromise against communism, and they exist despite capitalism not because of it
    • it would save money for normal people, not for the very wealthy