The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
But Amb. Irumba says competition among the two giants will only be beneficial to the region if the East Africans know what they want to get from these two economic powers.
“Our biggest problem has always been not knowing what we want and dealing with powers not so much for what they are but what they are offering,” he told The Independent, “As a region, we should know what we want, whether it is with the Chinese or Americans.”
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“Our relationship with these powers should be at business arms length…Of the two offers, who has better terms? Am I mortgaging my independence and who serves our interests without necessarily falling into their global supremacy wars?”
The usual nonsensical drama of preying on Africa – as Africans watch or wait to be ‘eaten’ by the big cats.
East Africa – as big and as fairly-well resourced as it is: why should it not seek unity of purpose and use their own people and currencies to develop technologies that they can afford? Very confused chaps: they would rather quarrel or hold suspicions among themselves to ensure they remain divided (or even create new political divisions) than seek to form one political unit of 170-180 Million people (half of US population and just over 10% of China’s). We Africans do not seem to learn: Our home land was parcelled out in the 19th century to the big cats of the times mainly because we were busy keeping ourselves to tribal chiefdoms and fighting or wishing our neighbours ill-luck. When we were taught about modern states, and were doled with some fake form of ‘freedom’, we opted to maintain the fragmentation done by the cats – and this time, superimposed inter ‘state’ rivalries on our old tribal ones. Crazy people , we must be!!
Now, barely two centuries after initial parceling, the new big cats are here again. Watch us – how some of us will start preferring being eaten by China and others by US. Do you see why Trump regards us as sh–? (But now he seems to want that ‘sh–‘ on his dinner table! Very funny world —- Hi?