Big News Africa:- China announces a zero-tariff policy for 53 out of 54 African countries !
Cornelius Hamelberg
#Have you heard (from Letter From Home
The wider context, is this true or false :
Victor Gao: Something BIG Is About to Hit America…
"Trump is FALLING APART Right Before Our Eyes…
The End Is Near
Big Deal: China announces a zero-tariff policy for 53 out of 54 African countries !
Could our economists please tell us what they believe will be the positive effects of this policy for Africa as a whole?
I can’t help thinking about the time wasted and the fuss made about Trump complimenting Liberia’s president on his beautiful English, his beautiful little ass-kissing speech, when, as reported, all that Liberia’s president had so humbly said that sounded so beautiful to Trump’s ears was
“ Thank you Mr. President. [inaudible 00:14:19] to the recent celebration of your Anniversary. We did in Liberia at your embassy. Mr. President, we thank you for this opportunity to be here. Liberia is a long-time friend of the United States and we believe in your policy of making America great again and we also go a long way with you in your diplomacy that has to do with economic development and commercial friendship. Liberia has a lot of minerals and one of the things we ask as good friends for a long time is, the opportunity to do a survey of our minerals and also, we are committed to peace and we've been very lucky within our region. We had a country that have had series of democratic elections and our country had been cooling down and also we want to encourage American involvement in the investment in Liberia. I would like to see that happen, we want to work with the United States in peace and security within the region because we are committed to that and we just want to thank you so much for this opportunity.”
Resulting in Trump cooing,
“Well, thank you and such good English. Such beautiful…”
Joseph Boakai : “Yes, I know.”
Donald Trump : “Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated, where?”
Joseph Boakai : “Yes sir.”
Donald Trump : “In Liberia?”
Joseph Boakai :”Yes sir.”
With guys like Donald Trump and Joseph Boakai still going strong ,their beautiful English, devoid of the occasional barnyard epithet will continue to
to be the language of international diplomacy, but what about French and Chinese, Arabic and Farsi, and the soft spoken Russian Language?
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
And she invites you up into her room”...
Just a thought or two, thinking aloud, these thoughts:
“Africa is Powerful!” the embryo of Pan Africanist thinking
Ah, the beauty of all those precious strategic minerals
and other commodities that God buried in Africa!
That’s also part of the beauty of China, no arrogant, planned backhand
or off the cuff compliments such as “you speak good English, where did
you learn to talk like that, boy, was it at one of the colleges at Oxford ,
because that’s certainly not what they taught you at the ranch in Texas?”
I’m inspired by my childhood friend Denys Blell’s No Place to Hide in America
Or the American Misadventures of a Honky White Boy Puerto Rican Mulatto Negro Cracker Syrian Uncle Tom Bastard from Africa - in the name of scientific and political correctness, inspired to say that unlike some of our fellow human beings such as race biology theorists, supremacist theologians and ethicists, who also belong to the primate order within the class Mammalia - when it comes to Chinese diplomacy, China-Africa relations we will never arrive at a preposterous point where an African diplomat will be praised for speaking Chinese with a Liberian accent, and whilst some of the pretentious members of the primate order might be pontificating about “ democracy” or as the BBC Focus on Africa was doing today, going on about the desirability of the Military in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali holding democratic elections sometime soon, the main concern of our partners in China could be sincerely expressed in Robinson Crusoe English via these three words : “We make friendship? ”
BTW, also the fastest way to a lady’s heart, those three words
Whilst Emperor Donald J Trump the USA’s smartest economist
is busy getting his fingers burned in the Middle East and Ukraine,
and not only that has declared a tariff trade war on the world, including all of Europe,
Dear China announces no tariffs on 53 out of 54 African countries - the only African country that’s an exception to China’s strategic largesse is Eswatini who believe that Taiwan is not part of China. It’s significant that, anxious to do Trump’s bidding, Eswatini is happily welcoming criminals that have been deported from the USA…
Dr. Oohay
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay
Omaha poker player extraordinaire
like “Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante”
as cryptic as usual
and as mysterious
as forever
And this time,
y7ou sound so ominous.
Please de-mystify
by elucidating
for the slow-thinking
motor park folk what you
shmell as the connection
between China’s tariff-free Policy
for Africa and lessons to be learned
from The Berlin Conference 1884-1885
In my mind’s little ear
I hear the last line refrain
from Leonard Cohen’s Teachers
What we know is that in this instance you cannot sing
“See the white man sailing his ship up on the sea,
Watch the white man shackle the black man to a tree.
To the invader go the fruits of war,
He misses home and his boots are sore.
He has not got no roots no more,
He comes for your gold,
Watch out for your soul.” ( Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now)
On the lighter side, I much prefer This Here