2/2: #PRC #Africa: The tattered remains of Belt and Road across the continent. Ronan Wordsworth, GeopoliticalFutures.com

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2/2: #PRC #Africa: The tattered remains of Belt and Road across the continent. Ronan Wordsworth, GeopoliticalFutures.com
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/chinas-new-approach-in-africa/

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0:00.0	Get up and at it. That's my mother used to say.
0:03.0	Get moving. Get your skate song.
0:07.0	Get your hair done in the race run.
0:10.0	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.0	Get picking up.
0:14.0	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:19.0	Get deliveries done.
0:21.0	And get home to see mom.
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0:30.0	This is CBS. I'm John Batch with Ronin Wordsworth of GeopoliticalFutures.com.
0:41.0	He's also part of the podcast Geopolitical Pickle with his colleague Juan Fri Munez.
0:46.0	We're speaking of the debt that African nations have incurred because of the generosity,
0:53.0	because of the cleverness, because of the ambition of the people's Republic of China
0:58.0	over the whole of the 21st century.
1:01.0	But mostly between 2012 and 2018, when Xi Jinping was the new boss of the Chinese Communist Party
1:09.0	and promoting his Belt and Road initiative, not so much anymore,
1:13.0	because we have major debts and we also have a new strategy.
1:16.0	First, the major debts and what it means.
1:19.0	I start with Angola because it is on your chart the one deepest in debt,
1:24.0	but you also mentioned Zambia, which is already confessed that it can't repay.
1:30.0	What about Angola and Zambia?
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