Leaked Cable - China Pursuing "Authoritarian Capitalism" In Africa - Deals With "Mugabes & Bashirs"

[hatrack]

:rofl:

Sorry, where was I?

The United States thinks China is a "pernicious economic competitor with no morals" whose booming investments in Africa are propping up unsavoury regimes, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. The frank assessment by the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Johnnie Carson, was among the latest revelations in thousands of documents released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

"China is a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals. China is not in Africa for altruistic reasons," Carson said in a February meeting with oil executives in Nigeria. "China is in Africa for China primarily," he said, according to a confidential February 23 cable written by the US consul-general in Lagos.

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China has been criticised by the West for its support of hardline leaders such as Sudan's
Omar al-Bashir and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, but many African leaders praise Beijing for not preaching to them over human rights.

"The United States will continue to push democracy and capitalism while Chinese authoritarian capitalism is politically challenging," Carson said. Beijing pursues a "contrarian" approach by dealing with the "Mugabes and Bashirs of the world", he said.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Leaked_US_cable_says_China_has_no_morals_in_Africa_999.html

[Kolesar]

1. "ongoing revelations from the cables leaked by WikiLeaks" eom

[txlibdem]

2. Yeah, I'd hate to see China committing such crimes as

Staging over 30 coups of foreign nations, some of our coups were more violent and bloody than others. Assassination of foreign elected leaders was also the US' standard operating procedure if a leader caused any trouble for the US gov't or US business interests.

Installing dictators that receive our unswerving loyalty despite the toll their despotic reign of terror:

1947

Greece — President Truman requests military aid to Greece to support right-wing forces fighting communist rebels. For the rest of the Cold War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek leaders with deplorable human rights records.

CIA created — President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, creating the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Council. The CIA is accountable to the president through the NSC — there is no democratic or congressional oversight. Its charter allows the CIA to "perform such other functions and duties… as the National Security Council may from time to time direct." This loophole opens the door to covert action and dirty tricks.

1948

Covert-action wing created — The CIA recreates a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination, led by Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Italy — The CIA corrupts democratic elections in Italy, where Italian communists threaten to win the elections. The CIA buys votes, broadcasts propaganda, threatens and beats up opposition leaders, and infiltrates and disrupts their organizations. It works -- the communists are defeated.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

That's just 2,

1953

Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

Guatemala, Laos, Haiti, Dominican Republic 1961, Ecuador, Congo (Zaire) (CIA failed on this one thank God), Dominican Republic 1963, etc.

Here is the most chilling quote so far:
"Brazil — A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Joao Goulart. The junta that replaces it will, in the next two decades, become one of the most bloodthirsty in history. General Castelo Branco will create Latin America’s first death squads, or bands of secret police who hunt down "communists" for torture, interrogation and murder. Often these "communists" are no more than Branco’s political opponents. Later it is revealed that the CIA trains the death squads." --from the above linked article

And we're not yet even out of the 1960s, folks. Read the entire article if you want to get thoroughly disgusted and learn something about the evils that Capitalism has wrought, (and still is --Afghanistan, Iraq).

So before throwing stones at China, let's take an honest look at our Capitalist ruled nation and find out the truth about what Capitalism is all about.

[reggie the dog]

3. so china does as the usa does

in south and latin america,

[tom_paine]

4. Our Sister authoritarian capitalist nation - China

We are they and they are us.

Together, we are designing the template for the Refeudalization (under the most modern plausibly deniable methods authoritarian capitalism has to offer) of the Earth and making sure that, in the coming keyhole dieoff likely numbering in the billions, that only Filthy Little Nobodies do the dying, and not the Nobility.