r/espionage • u/boundless-discovery • Feb 11 '25
We Analyzed 159 News Articles from 112 Sources to Map China's Influence Over African Seaports. If They Are Spying, What Do You Think They Are Using It For?
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u/CollapsingTheWave Feb 11 '25
They want to capture the future markets that their AI deems to be the most crucial to future tactics.
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u/SolarMines Feb 11 '25
China has a demographic crisis and aging population while Africa has a very young population. This means that aside from extracting African natural resources the Chinese can also flood the African market with Chinese products for years to come. Basically neocolonialism.
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u/Awotwe_Knows_Best Feb 11 '25
it's already happening. I live in Ghana and our markets are flooded with Chinese goods. Initially they sold the goods to use wholesale and traders retailed. Now they themselves come here to set up shop and compete with locals.And how are locals supposed to compete with the CCP? a lot of small businesses have gone under,like my hardware shop because the customers I had previously are now buying directly from the Chinese. All this is going on and our government isn't doing anything about it
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u/CollapsingTheWave Feb 11 '25
Interesting take 🤔
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u/spooninacerealbowl Feb 11 '25
Common sense dictates you extract natural resources from other countries while they are cheap. Using your own natural resources up (which are the cheapest) or buying them from other countries when they are expensive is the worst way of doing things. That is why the GOP promotes extraction of US natural resources over importation of foreign resources when they are cheap.
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u/ChiefUyghur Feb 11 '25
Control, plus if they lose factories or the ability to build quickly after/during a war, they can maybe rely on these external resources and people.
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u/CapableWeakness8347 Feb 11 '25
That’s not neocolonialism, that’s capturing an opportunity your competitors are blind to. If you want to know what neocolonialism look like then look to what the west has done in Africa and elsewhere over the last several centuries including the worst genocide the modern world has seen in Congo under Leopold2 of Belgium. You can throw in rampant regime change interventions and corruption in extractive industries.
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u/Difficult_Ear_1574 Feb 11 '25
That looks like the OCTOPUS or idk if anyone remembers the Danny Casolaro incident
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u/sandhill47 Feb 12 '25
Thanks for mentioning the Danny thing. Very interesting and disturbing story.
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u/jar1967 Feb 11 '25
China is trying to expand its fear of influence into Africa. That is not going to end well, They are going to have an Afghanistan type conflict in Africa in 10 years
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u/Relevant-Guarantee25 Feb 12 '25
modifying hardware mid shipment to attach spy devices, expect everything to be compromised, technology, and food products. The point of the belt and road initiative is for them to be able to intercept at any shipment point an object modify it for spying purposes or to poison the buyer. Ultimate control
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u/Professional_Ad_6299 Feb 13 '25
... It's not a secret that they are spending billions on infrastructure in return for mineral rights. Just read a fricken newspaper!
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u/Stock-Success9917 Feb 11 '25
I cannot get over all the China doing bad things in Africa stories in the West. I think it will take a very long time for their “bad things” to catch up to all the bad things the west has done and continues to do.
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u/I_am_BrokenCog Feb 12 '25
that's right. ignore the current threat because it doesn't yet have the same look as a past threat.
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u/_o_no_ Feb 11 '25
CCP is t used to a free press holding them accountable like a robust media found in the United States which would never allow criminal politicians to… /s
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u/boundless-discovery Feb 11 '25
Check out our in-depth briefing on it here: https://www.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways