Jason Ross: Is China Empire Building in Africa?
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Schiller Institute science advisor Jason Ross discusses China’s imperial ambitions in Africa through its Belt And Road Initiative and the challenges it poses to the US-dominated Bretton Woods system.
Show Notes
Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa https://schillerinstitute.com/extending-new-silk-road-west-asia-africa
Why China’s ‘Debtbook Diplomacy’ is a Hoax https://schillerinstitute.com/why-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy-is-a-hoax
Africa’s Bright Future on China’s Belt and Road Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIvC_Kdvc4E
China: A New Imperial Power? https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/10/a-new-imperial-power
Websites
https://www.twitter.com/JasonA_Ross
About the Guest
Jason Ross is a Science Advisor at The Schiller Institute.
In America, the Institute, a non-profit corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C., was founded in May 1984. The Schiller Institute is also established in Australia, Canada, Russia, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and has a growing influence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Helga Zepp LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute internationally, is also Chairman of its Board of Directors in the United States. A German citizen, Mrs. Zepp LaRouche is wife of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., statesman and economist, who, with his wife, is a true citizen of the world, in Schiller’s sense. In her Founding Message for the American Schiller Institute, in 1984, Chairman Helga Zepp LaRouche outlined the Institute’s objectives as follows:
“The clock of mankind has advanced to a point where the old lackluster ways will no longer work. According to all established criteria, mankind has gambled away all its chances for survival. Too many catastrophes are crowding in upon us, the entropic process has proceeded too far and the rift between the U.S.A. and Western Europe is all but accomplished.
For precisely this reason, we are founding the Schiller Institute. We do so not only because there is a vacuum we need to fill with institutions willing to revive the spirit of the American Revolution and the German classical period. We are founding the Schiller Institute because Schiller’s special method of approaching world-historical problems is the only one which can still bring about a solution today. The kernel of this method can be defined in Schiller’s own words: Man is greater than his fate. Even if the objective situation looks almost hopeless and desperate, we, like Schiller, are sure that a courageous spirit and human reason will always be able to find the higher level where the problems are solvable….”The Schiller Institute will work for this perspective. You, dear citizens of America, are called upon to help in this process. We can win, but. as Schiller stated, ‘world history is the world’s court of justice!”’
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Our guest on this edition of the Geopolitics and Empire podcast is Jason Ross, who is a science advisor at the Schiller Institute. |
| 0:07.6 | We will be discussing the imperial ambitions of China in Africa and beyond. |
| 0:12.5 | Don't forget to subscribe to all of our channels and social media as well as leave us a tip via Patreon, PayPal, or Bitcoin. |
| 0:20.3 | And now on to the interview. |
| 0:22.1 | It's great to have you on the podcast, Jason. |
| 0:24.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:26.2 | Let's start with the tweet that you have pinned on your Twitter, which is quoting a Chinese ambassador and says, quote, |
| 0:35.4 | They want to keep Africa as it was, poor and divided, to be controlled by others. |
| 0:41.9 | What they worry about is Africa's realization of economic independence with China support. |
| 0:47.6 | What they worry about is a strong Africa, end quote. |
| 0:51.4 | I assume they is the West and or the Anglo-American establishment, which includes the EU. |
| 0:58.0 | So can you talk a little bit about whether China is a new hegemonic empire and whether what China is doing in Africa, Latin America, and beyond is empire building? |
| 1:10.1 | Well, that quote is from the ambassador, the Chinese ambassador to South |
| 1:15.8 | Africa, and he made that statement shortly after Rex Tillerson's trip to Africa about a half |
| 1:21.8 | a year ago where Tillerson had warned countries in Africa to beware of Chinese influence |
| 1:27.3 | and to beware of China pulling |
| 1:29.0 | people into debt traps or into political alliances that they would not be for their benefit. |
| 1:36.9 | At the time that he said that, he was making the point, the Chinese ambassador was making the point, |
| 1:41.9 | that Chinese aid, excuse me, Chinese finance into Africa is something that Chinese nations have been seeking of their own free will. |
| 1:52.1 | Chinese countries have, excuse me, African countries have programs that they want to adopt. |
| 1:58.1 | They have infrastructure goals. They have trade goals. They have |
| 2:00.8 | energy goals. And these nations are looking for partners around the world that they can work with. |
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