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How China Develops Africa - Roar News (opens the original)
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Staff Writer Jack Ford examines China’s economic role in Africa, weighing the evidence on firms, lending, and value transfer against the promises of ‘win-win’ cooperation and the charge of exploitation, before ultimately paralleling Chinese and Western involvement. Within the cavernous enclosure at the heart of Great Zimbabwe – the ancient capital of the Karanga Kingdom – shards of pottery were unearthed. These fragments, under closer analysis, were of foreign origin – a ‘shadow-blue’, transluce
How The West Still Underdevelops Africa - Roar News (opens the original)
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Staff Writer Jack Ford traces the relationship between Africa and the West from its beginnings to its contemporary form, arguing that both Africa’s underdevelopment and modern-day Western prosperity are rooted in exploitation of the continent. On the eve of European maritime contact in the fifteenth century, the African continent was alive with change – developing, as Walter Rodney famously argued, along its own distinct socio-economic trajectory. Much of these initial sections are drawn from th
A China Ascendant: An Imperial Project? - Roar News (opens the original)
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Staff Writer Jack Ford examines the Belt and Road Initiative’s stated aims against its record, asking whether the programme lives up to its own theory, and whether it could be called an imperial project. A caravan of a hundred men proceeds along the Hexi corridor. Flanked by barren and undulating terrain, the corridor stretches fertile over a thousand kilometres. The men are laden with cavalry bows, and among them is Zhang Qian – a palace officer. They hope to forge an alliance to end a bitter c
Trade, Treats, & Fascism - Roar News (opens the original)
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Staff Writer Jack Ford examines how the unequal transfer of wealth from the Global South to the Global North underpins global inequality and has fuelled the rise of reactionary politics in the West. 2019 – Seated before a crowd of the world’s wealthiest, co-founder of Microsoft and international philanthropist Bill Gates presents a graph of extreme poverty. Standing triumphant before the World Economic Forum – the beating heart of the neoliberal world system – the graph claimed that the share of
A China Ascendant: Adaptability in Crisis - Roar News (opens the original)
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Staff Writer Jack Ford argues that to understand where China is going, we must understand where it has been. First in a series, this article analyses the historic context of crises which created the modern state of China, and its remarkable adaptability. The year is 2026, and the unipolar world order is being called into question. Our familiar hegemons are resorting to evermore violent means of exacting their will, while the stability of the Western economic system becomes evermore uncertain. Th
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