China continues its rapid global expansion, leaving no stone unturned at a time of America’s steady decline due to the Leftist agenda.
The Southern African country of Zimbabwe is among the poorest countries in the world, but now it boasts a luxury parliament, thanks to China. The People’s Republic has virtually taken over Zimbabwe as it “dumps its obsolete technology on lesser developed nations, particularly African countries.”
“China Gifts Zimbabwe Luxury Parliament While Citizens Struggle for Food,” by Gabrielle Reyes, Breitbart, June 30, 2022:
China’s ruling Communist Party gifted the parliament of Zimbabwe — a severely impoverished nation that regularly struggles to feed its own citizens — a new luxury building on Wednesday, with Xinhua, China’s official state press agency, describing the opulent space as a “six-story building [that] is a fine piece of magnificent architecture.”
Beijing said on June 29 that it had fully funded the parliament building’s construction through the state-owned Shanghai Construction Group Company (SCG). Cai Libo, an SCG project manager, told Xinhua on Wednesday the new facility was “a gift from the Chinese government to the Zimbabwean government. It was funded by China Aid funds, it’s a grant to Zimbabwe and not a loan so there is no payment to be made in the future.”
Detailing the massive structure, Xinhua wrote:
The imposing building has a combined floor space of 33,000 square meters, with two main sections — a six-story office building and a four-story parliament building. The office building and parliament building are connected by three bridges on each floor.
[…] The office building contains 600 rooms, including offices for VIP, Members of Parliament and parliament officials.
In total, the building has the capacity to accommodate 1,000 people.
Zimbabwe’s socialist government is a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Chinese government program allows Beijing to fund infrastructure projects in nations with developing or lower-income economies, often through dubious loan structures. The program has received criticism for its propensity to push already indebted nations further into debt to Beijing after many inevitably fail to repay the infrastructure loans. Observers of the BRI believe China uses the scheme, in part, to forward the global agenda of its ruling Communist Party.
The BRI counts 43 sub-Saharan African nations among its 147 global members. Most of these African BRI members also belong to the African Union (AU). Observers have repeatedly accused Beijing of bugging the AU’s headquarters building in Ethiopia’s federal capital of Addis Ababa. China’s government fully funded and constructed the $200 million showpiece structure in 2012.
The AU in January 2020 discovered that suspected Chinese hackers had spied on surveillance camera footage recorded at the group’s headquarters building….
Check Burry says
The Moat and the gun ports dont get a mention. Could they not have utilised the dead dick tators opulent palaces with a bit of help from some DIY outfit
Infidel says
This time, the joke is on Beijing! Zimbabwe is an absolute 💩hole of a country, thanks to decades of mismanagement by Robert Mugabe. Good luck to the Chicoms – they’ll need it!
PMK says
I’m not so sure. Zimbabwe may be landlocked and poor but it has a large mining industry.: coal, gold, platinum, copper, nickel, tin, diamonds, clay, numerous metallic and nonmetallic ores. It’s a safe bet the Beijing wasn’t being benevolent. The Chinese will go in and take what they want.
Infidel says
Given how Zimbabwe treated White farmers who once enriched their land and made it the food basket of sub-Saharan Africa, I can’t wait to see what they do to the Chinese, once they start their belt/road projects there. If you want a peek, just look at Pakistan, where the Chinese are now hated despite being an enemy of India
Kepha says
I’m more worried about what the Chinese might ultimately do to the Shon and Ndebele.
gravenimage says
Infidel, I imagine China’s goal is to exploit Zimbabwe’s natural resources. Despite that country being such a pathetic basket case, it actually has enormous reserves of platinum, chrome, gold, coal, chromium, and diamonds.
And Mugabe hasn’t been in power there since 2017, and he died in 2019. Emmerson Mnangagwa has been president since 2017. He’s probably better than the utterly appalling Mugabe, but this is a pretty damn low bar.
tim gallagher says
That would be the goal that this Chinese regime has in any African country that it buys into, gravenimage. I believe, from occasional comments I hear from commentators here in Australia, that CHina already is pretty dominant in a few African countries. They are also throwing money at countries like Papua New Guinea, the Solomon islands, etc, close to Australia. China is relentlessly buying up influence in these countries, which are pretty much economic basket cases and China, with buckets of money, is going to end up running these places. They have also been buying farming land and other assets in Australia. I suppose the money they offer is too tempting to resist. Some clowns here in Australia actually leased the port of Darwin to some Chinese company. I suppose that, since almost everything we buy out here is made in China, the Chinese regime has huge amounts of money with which to buy up dominance in many countries.
Keith O says
AWW, the Chinese have given Rhodesia a new parliament building.
It seems to have all the modern conveniences and I’ll bet a camera above every desk and a listening device in every room.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Check Burry says
Yes plus wha whey in every toilet. You know which company im referring to.
Omer Causey says
China is emulating the imperialistic behavior of the European great powers of the 19th Century, but moving more quickly.
Del says
The Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been given millions by Trudeau. It might be more, but he hides much of his foreign gifting.