U.S. Imperialist Militarism On The Continent Seeks To Maintain Dominance Over Growing Efforts Aimed At Genuine Independence
By Pan-African News Wire
June 11, 2013
There has been a considerable amount of discussion and debate over
the growing economic and political relations between the People's
Republic of China and the African Union member-states. China is reported
now to be the largest trading partner with the 54 independent states on
the continent.
Since the 1949 Socialist Revolution in China, the
country has made tremendous strides in economic development and
political status. In just six-and-a-half decades China has grown into
the second largest economic power globally. Beijing's opinions and
political alliances are always taken into consideration by various
imperialist states as well as developing countries of the so-called
Global South.
In 2000, the Forum on Africa-China Cooperation
(FOCAC) was formed. Over the last thirteen years, some five summits of
this organization have been held with concrete results that have been
beneficial to both Africa and the China.
China is still a
socialist state despite the adoption of capitalist methods of production
and trade. The government is controlled by the Communist Party and
central planning of the economy provides the country with an advantage
that is lacking within Europe and North America where the anarchy of
capitalist production has driven down the living standards of working
people and rendered hundreds of millions to unemployment, poverty,
social insecurity and escalating political repression.
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