THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – OPPRESSOR

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – OPPRESSOR

THE  EVIL  RED  EMPIRE  -  RED  CHINA  -  OPPRESSOR :  TIBET  IS  NOT  A  PART  OF  RED  CHINA .  HOWEVER,  IT  IS  CORRECT  TO  STATE  THAT  TIBETANS  ARE  OPPRESSED  BY  RED  CHINA'S  TYRANNY .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – OPPRESSOR : TIBET IS NOT A PART OF RED CHINA . HOWEVER, IT IS CORRECT TO STATE THAT TIBETANS ARE OPPRESSED BY RED CHINA’S TYRANNY .

Oppressor refers to a person or group that oppresses people. Oppressor is related to terms like tyrant, despot, persecutor, and,subjugator. Oppressor is a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way. Red China is an Oppressor for she persecutes people in Occupied Tibet. In recent times, news media in the United States have shared a number of stories to focus public attention of people about problems faced by people of Philippines and other weak neighbors of Red China because of China’s Maritime Expansionism. Not even a single word is mentioned about Red China’s oppressive rule over Occupied Tibet.

THE  EVIL  RED  EMPIRE  -  RED  CHINA -  OPPRESSOR :  TIBET  IS  NOT  A  PART  OF  RED  CHINA .  RED  CHINA  EXPANDED  HER  TERRITORY  THROUGH  MILITARY  CONQUEST .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – OPPRESSOR : TIBET IS NOT A PART OF RED CHINA . RED CHINA EXPANDED HER TERRITORY THROUGH MILITARY CONQUEST .

Tibet is the first victim of Red China’s Expansionist Policy. The problems of South China Sea demand proper evaluation of Red China’s tyranny, despotism, subjugation, persecution, suppression, and oppression of Tibetan people living their miserable lives in Occupied Tibet.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA
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For some Filipino fishermen, the South China Sea dispute is personal

The Washington Post

Will Englund

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE - RED CHINA - OPPRESSOR : Filipino fisherman's personal story .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – OPPRESSOR : Filipino fisherman’s personal story .

© The Washington Post The Marvin-1, a fishing boat, sits on the shore May 16, 2015, in Masinloc, Philippines, unused since the Chinese barred it from Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.

MASINLOC, Philippines — When nations duel over reefs, rocks and islets, people are going to get hurt, and in the South China Sea dispute, that means the fishermen here who once wrested a living from the contested waters.

Gunmen in a Chinese speedboat drove Macario Forones, for instance, away from a favorite spot called Scarborough Shoal, and now his boat, the Marvin-1, sits useless in the grass and weeds above the high-tide line, and he sells someone else’s fish from a stall in the local market. Efrim Forones now dives for clams in the bay, making about one-tenth of what he earned when he fished the sea. Viany Mula says he was set upon with a Chinese water cannon when he ventured out to the shoal in his boat, and now he makes deliveries around town on a motorbike, barely earning enough each day, as he p

“I really want to fish the shoal,” Mula said one recent day. “It’s a very rich fishing ground. But that’s not possible now.”

For generations, the South China Sea was a regional common. Fishing boats from all of the surrounding countries would roam its waters, pausing now and then to trade cigarettes or potatoes or gossip.

But then Vietnam, followed by the Philippines, began staking claims to some of the islands, and now China is moving in, in a big way. Beijing is building up the outposts it has established, enlarging islands that it controls and claiming exclusive rights to fishing grounds.

The smaller, poorer nations can’t put up a real fight for the access to the sea that they long enjoyed.
“That’s not for us,” Mula said. “We have nothing.”

But the Philippines does have the United States behind it, after a fashion. The Americans are making more visits here, and stepping up naval patrols and overflights — and in the process, the South China Sea dispute becomes something bigger than a contest for fish. It looks more and more like a geostrategic confrontation between the two great powers, China and the United States; that’s certainly how the Chinese characterize it.

The U.S. military has long been a source of anguish, self-doubt and defiance for the Philippines, a former U.S. colony. Many Filipinos are encouraged by recent U.S. attention to the maritime dispute, but they wonder whether the Americans give much thought to the Philippines and the people who are paying a price as the dispute deepens.
One in three residents of Masinloc have depended over the years on fishing for their livelihoods, said Mayor Desiree Edora. Scarborough Shoal, a half-day’s sail from shore, was a refuge from storms, a gathering place for fishermen from all over and a home to abundant grouper and giant clams. Now, the Chinese have barred foreign boats. It is like being thrown out of your own house, she said.

“We can’t replicate what Scarborough Shoal can provide,” she said.

The Philippines took China to court — an international tribunal in The Hague — two years ago over competing claims in the sea. China refused to participate; a decision is expected next year, but it probably will be unenforceable. The Philippine move may have provoked the Chinese into trying to cement their claims by occupying and building up as many spots in the sea as they can, but officials in the Philippines say they had no choice after efforts to negotiate came to nothing.

The governor of Zambales province, Hermogenes E. Ebdane Jr., said he wonders what China’s ultimate goal is. “No one’s going to war over fish,” he said. His constituents, the fishermen, will have to find something else to do. But if this confrontation is about something bigger, Ebdane said, it’s unclear what role the Philippines might have. There’s a new defense agreement with the United States, but, he said, neither side seems to have thought through the implications for the murky weeks and months ahead.

A legacy of deep ambivalence

At the Defense College in Quezon City, on the outskirts of Manila, an entire wall in the lobby is given over to a painting that depicts the massacre of four dozen U.S. soldiers by Filipino insurgents at Balangiga in 1901. A diorama up a staircase shows Filipinos battling Spanish conquistadors, and fighting against the Japanese in World War II — alongside Americans.
The United States seized the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and held it until 1946. The U.S. military continued to keep permanent bases here until 1991.

The legacy is a deep ambivalence toward the United States. But the U.S. Navy is the one force that is willing to challenge the Chinese and keep up regular patrols in the region. An agreement signed last year would allow the U.S. military standing presence here, rotating forces onto Philippine bases. The agreement is held up by a lawsuit in the Philippine Supreme Court.

Washington has stepped up visits and patrols, and it has made much of joint training exercises and the donation of used military equipment.
“That is not to protect the Philippines but to protect their own turf,” said Roilo Golez, a member of the country’s House of Representatives. U.S. military aid, worth about $40 million a year, is nothing but a token, he said.

The Philippine armed forces, in this nation of 100 million, remain in woeful shape. It is an article of faith that the government was caught napping when China began making its moves in the South China Sea.

“We remain quite dependent on allied help, and that is not good,” said Rafael Alban III, former secretary of the interior. “The focus of the Philippine government has been on politics, politics, politics, at the expense of national security. China is taking advantage of our inertia and lack of assertiveness. We are presenting ourselves as unworthy before friend and foe.”
Walden Bello, founding director of a group called Focus on the Global South, said his country “is right back to its role in the Cold War, when it played the part of handmaiden to the United States.”

But military officials here say they are unsure of the U.S. commitment if hostilities should break out. The United States and the Philippines have a mutual defense treaty pledging assistance if either is attacked, but Washington doesn’t recognize any nation’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, including the Philippines’. Naval analysts in Washington say the U.S. response to conflict there would depend entirely on the circumstances.

“We may have overestimated how the United States will come to the rescue,” said Chito Santa Romana, an expert on China. “We may have underestimated Chinese resolve.”

Water-borne civil disobedience

The two biggest vessels in the Philippine navy are former U.S. Coast Guard cutters, retrofitted with deck guns, and of little use in standing up to the Chinese. The government, in any case, has no desire to provoke China into a military confrontation.

That leaves the fishing fleet as the country’s best means of maintaining a presence in the parts of the South China Sea that Beijing claims. Philippine — and Vietnamese — boats challenge the Chinese when and where they can, until the Chinese coast guard drives them off. It is water-borne civil disobedience.

“These are small, subsistence fishermen,” said Evan P. Garcia, undersecretary for policy in the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs. “They’re not a threat to anybody. And it’s not as if they just went there yesterday.”

The fish they’re after may be the other big casualty of the dispute. The tensions over the years have kept anyone from getting good data on fish stocks or devising a conservation plan. Hundreds of millions of people live around the South China Sea and eat its fish. The Marine Stewardship Council, with an office in Singapore, says that the humpback wrasse and bluefin tuna populations are close to collapse. Edgardo Gomez, a marine biologist in Manila, said that the Chinese have wiped out the giant clams on Scarborough and that their construction work is destroying reefs that support the bottom rungs of the sea’s food chain.

“You have tons and tons of marine life in and around those reefs that are now gone,” he said.
The hatch is being shut on a way of life. The United States and China are either pursuing strategic advantage or practicing destructive gamesmanship, depending on the perspective. Filipinos have to live with that — with the “odd detour,” as Garcia put it, that brought them here.

Viany Mula would trade his motorbike in the blink of an eye for a chance to return to sea. But that is not going to happen.

Englund visited the Philippines on a Jefferson Fellowship, supported by the East-West Center.

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – A JACKAL

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – A JACKAL :

THE  EVIL  RED  EMPIRE  -  RED  CHINA  -  A  JACKAL .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – A JACKAL .

Jackals are wild dogs of Asia and North Africa. The word Jackal is often used to describe a person who does dishonest or humiliating tasks for one’s own gain. Jackal is the other name for a cheat or a swindler. I am specifically using the term ‘JACKAL’ to describe the nature of Red China’s statecraft or statesmanship. It helps my readers to recognize Red China’s sly, secretive, or wily nature. Sly implies a working to achieve one’s ends by evasiveness, insinuation, furtiveness, duplicity, circumvention, plot, subterfuge, stratagem, craftiness, subtle blandishments, ruses, cunning underhandedness, mischievous or roguish behavior. Red China could be called “FOXY” for its tricks are sharpened by experience. Red China deals with her neighbors using her proficiency in deception. Red China is subtly deceitful for she knows to defraud others by deliberately misleading them to obtain their rights and property. Red China often takes pleasure in demonstrating the gullibility of her victims.

At Special Frontier Force, we have personal experience of Red China’s sly, wily, cunning, dishonest, and deceitful nature.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA
The Spirits of Special Frontier Force

Pentagon chief criticizes Beijing’s South China Sea
moves

Associated Press

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW PENNINGTON

SINGAPORE — China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea is out of step
with international rules, and turning underwater land into airfields won’t
expand its sovereignty, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told an international
security conference Saturday, stepping up America’s condemnation of the
communist giant as Beijing officials sat in the audience.

Carter told the room full of Asia-Pacific leaders and experts that the U.S.
opposes “any further militarization” of the disputed lands.

His remarks were immediately slammed as “groundless and not constructive” by
a Chinese military officer in the audience.

Carter’s comments came as defense officials revealed that China had put two
large artillery vehicles on one of the artificial islands it is creating in the
South China Sea. The discovery, made at least several weeks ago, fuels fears in
the U.S and across the Asia-Pacific that China will try to use the land
reclamation projects for military purposes.

The weaponry was discovered at least several weeks ago, and two U.S.
officials who are familiar with intelligence about the vehicles say they have
been removed. The officials weren’t authorized to discuss the intelligence and
spoke only on condition of anonymity.

The Pentagon would not release any photos to support its contention that the
vehicles were there.

China’s assertive behavior in the South China Sea has become an increasingly
sore point in relations with the United States, even as President Barack Obama
and China’s President Xi Jinping have sought to deepen cooperation in other
areas, such as climate change.

Pentagon spokesman Brent Colburn said the U.S. was aware of the artillery,
but he declined to provide other details. Defense officials described the
weapons as self-propelled artillery vehicles and said they posed no threat to
the U.S. or American territories.
© AP Photo/Wong Maye-E U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton

Carter delivers his speech about “The United States and Challenges to
Asia-Pacific Security” during the 14th International Institute for Strategic
Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS, Asia Security Summit, Saturday, May 30,
2015, in Singapore.

While Carter did not refer directly to the weapons in his speech, he told the
audience that now is the time for a diplomatic solution to the territorial
disputes because “we all know there is no military solution.”

“Turning an underwater rock into an airfield simply does not afford the
rights of sovereignty or permit restrictions on international air or maritime
transit,” Carter told the audience at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies summit.

China’s actions have been “reasonable and justified,” said Senior Col. Zhao
Xiaozhuo, deputy director of the Center on China-America Defense Relations at
the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Science.

Zhao challenged Carter, asking whether America’s criticism of China and its
military reconnaissance activities in the South China Sea “help to resolve the
disputes” and maintain peace and stability in the region.

Carter responded that China’s expanding land reclamation projects are
unprecedented in scale. He said the U.S. has been flying and operating ships in
the region for decades and has no intention of stopping.

While Carter’s criticism was aimed largely at China, he made it clear that
other nations who are doing smaller land reclamation projects also must
stop.

One of those countries is Vietnam, which Carter is scheduled to visit during
this 11-day trip across Asia. Others are Malaysia, the Philippines and
Taiwan.

Asked about images of weapons on the islands, China’s Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she was “not aware of the situation you
mention.”

She also scolded Carter, saying the U.S. should be “rational and calm and
stop making any provocative remarks, because such remarks not only do not help
ease the controversies in the South China Sea, but they also will aggravate the
regional peace and stability.”

Carter appeared to strike back in his speech, saying that the U.S. is
concerned about “the prospect of further militarization, as well as the
potential for these activities to increase the risk of miscalculation or
conflict.” And he said the U.S. “has every right to be involved and be
concerned.”

But while Carter stood in China’s backyard and added to the persistent
drumbeat of U.S. opposition to Beijing’s activities, he did little to give
Asia-Pacific nations a glimpse into what America is willing to do to achieve a
solution.

He said the U.S. will continue to sail, fly and operate in the region, and
warned that the Pentagon will be sending its “best platforms and people” to the
Asia-Pacific. Those would include, he said, new high-tech submarines,
surveillance aircraft, the stealth destroyer and new aircraft carrier-based
early-warning aircraft.

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who also is attending the Singapore
conference, told reporters that the U.S. needs to recognize that China will
continue its activities in the South China Sea until it perceives that the costs
of doing so outweigh the benefits.

He said he agreed with Carter’s assertion that America will continue flights
and operations near the building projects, but “now we want to see it translated
into action.”
© AP Photo/Wong Maye-E U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton

Carter delivers his speech about “The United States and Challenges to
Asia-Pacific Security” during the 14th International Institute for Strategic
Studies Shangri-la Dialogue (IISS) Asia Security Summit, Saturday, May 30, 2015,
in Singapore.

One senior defense official has said the U.S. is considering more military
flights and patrols closer to the projects in the South China Sea, to emphasize
reclaimed lands are not China’s territorial waters. Officials also are looking
at ways to adjust the military exercises in the region to increase U.S. presence
if needed. That official was not authorized to discuss the options publicly and
spoke on condition of anonymity.

One possibility would be for U.S. ships to travel within 12 miles of the
artificial islands, to further make the point that they are not sovereign
Chinese land. McCain said it would be a critical mistake to recognize any
12-mile zone around the reclamation projects.

The U.S. has been flying surveillance aircraft in the region, prompting China
to file a formal protest.

U.S. and other regional officials have expressed concerns about the island
building, including worries that it may be a prelude to navigation restrictions
or the enforcement of a possible air defense identification zone over the South
China Sea. China declared such a zone over disputed Japanese-held islands in the
East China Sea in 2013.

China has said the islands are its territory and that the buildings and other
infrastructure are for public service use and to support fishermen.

Pennington reported from Washington. AP news assistant Liu Zheng in Beijing
contributed to this report.

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – COLONIAL RULE OVER TIBET

THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – COLONIAL RULE OVER TIBET:

THE  EVIL  RED  EMPIRE  -  RED  CHINA  -  COLONIAL  RULE  OVER  TIBET .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – COLONIAL RULE OVER TIBET .

Neocolonialism describes the revival of Colonialist exploitation by a foreign power of a region that has achieved independence. Colonialism is the system or policy by which a country maintains foreign colonies especially in order to exploit them economically. Colonization refers to  extension of political and economic control over an area by an occupying state that has organizational or technological superiority. Imperialism has been a major colonizing force. The Colony’s population is subdued to assimilate them to the Colonizer’s way of life.

The Great 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet declared Tibet’s independence from Manchu China(Qing or Ch’ing Dynasty) on February 13, 1913. Tibet expelled Manchu China’s diplomats and its military contingent posted in Lhasa, Tibet’s Capital. For centuries, Tibet came under foreign conquests by Mongols and Manchu China but Tibet was never colonized. Red China’s military invasion of Tibet in 1950 describes the typical features of Colonialism. Tibet’s population is repressed by brutal force in an attempt to fully assimilate Tibetans to the Colonizer’s way of life. Red China’s Colonial Rule is a direct threat to  existence of Tibetan way of life shaped by centuries of Natural Freedom. Apart from wiping out Tibetan System of Governance known as Ganden Phodrang, The Institution of Dalai Lama at Potala Palace, Lhasa, the tyrannical rule of Red China is destroying every attribute of Tibetan Culture including Tibetan language, and Tibetan religious institutions putting Tibetan Identity at a great peril. Red China’s colonization of Tibet is defacing and degrading Tibetan territory and its fragile environment totally upsetting its delicate ecological balance. The Land of Tibet is scarred by Red China’s reckless mining activities, deforestation, diversion of rivers, and dumping of toxic chemical and nuclear wastes.

THE  EVIL  RED  EMPIRE  -  RED  CHINA  -  COLONIAL  RULE  OVER  TIBET :  TIBET  IS  POISONED  WITH  LONGLIVING  NUCLEAR  WASTE  FROM  RED  CHINA'S  NUCLEAR  EXPANSIONISM .
THE EVIL RED EMPIRE – RED CHINA – COLONIAL RULE OVER TIBET : TIBET IS POISONED WITH LONG LIVING NUCLEAR WASTE FROM RED CHINA’S NUCLEAR EXPANSIONISM .

Colonization was the vehicle of European expansion from the 15th century into Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch established Colonies worldwide that have for the most part obtained independence from imperial system only in the 20th century.

red china neocolonialist mineral deposits tibet
red china neocolonialist mineral deposits Tibet
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red china neocolonialist Canadian mining projects Tibet

Red China determines the economic development of other countries from which it extracts vast amounts of raw materials. With the sole exception of Tibet, Red China is able to get raw materials and flood world markets with Made in China products without the need to fight the wars of the previous Colonial Era. With threats of its muscle power, Red China has entered a new era of Colonialism. People of the World have to awaken to the threat imposed by Red China – Neocolonialist.

Rudranarasimham Rebbapragada
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4162, USA
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CONGO ASSESSES $6.7 BILLION CONTRACTS WITH CHINESE

Congo assesses $6.7 billion contracts with Chinese

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO

In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers travel on the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor on their way to work in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)
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  • In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers travel on the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor  on their way to work in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.  Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)
    In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers travel on the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor on their way to work in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)

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  • In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers inside a new hotel being built for the use by  Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.  Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)
    In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers inside a new hotel being built for the use by Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)

    In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers at the building site of a new hotel to be used by Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)
    In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers at the building site of a new hotel to be used by Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)
  • In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers travel on the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor on their way to work in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)
    In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers travel on the back of a trailer pulled by a tractor on their way to work in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)

    KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics say could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.

Congo’s government has a 32 percent stake while China has 68 percent in the mining project called Sicomines. It was created in 2008 but construction did not officially start until three years later, said Jean Nzenga Kongolo, deputy general manager of Sicomines.

It now employs about 3,000 people, of whom 70 percent are Congolese, said Kongolo.

To assess the project’s impact, officials from the World Bank and the United Nations visited the mines this week.

The project “is truly in the right lines and objectives of the World Bank which is to fight against poverty,” said World Bank representative Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye. The U.N. official also praised the project.

However, critics say a more thorough evaluation of the contract still must be done.

In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers at the building site of a new hotel to be used by Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)
In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers at the building site of a new hotel to be used by Congo government officials when completed in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo’s government is bringing in outside experts including officials from the World Bank and the United Nations, to investigate the long-term impact of some $6.7 billion in contracts with Chinese companies that critics have said could exploit the central African nation’s mineral riches.(AP Photo/John Bompengo)

In this photo taken on May 20, 2015, Chinese workers at the building site of a new hotel to be used by Congo government officials in Kinshasa.

“The Chinese contract was never a win-win … It was badly negotiated,” said civil society leader Jonas Tshiombela.

As part of the deal, China’s Railway Engineering Corporation and Sinohydro Corp. are constructing about 3,000 kilometers of roads and railways in Congo. Universities, hospitals and health centers are also being built, according to the agreement.

Tshiombela said the quality of the construction work “leaves much to be desired.” One road in the capital of Kinshasa — Sendwe Boulevard — already has potholes just a year after it was completed, he said.

Sun Rui Wen, the director general representing China’s interest in Sicomines, defended the project, saying it is based on “equality and mutual benefit.”

The deal also allows the Chinese companies to mine copper, cobalt and gold, according to the agreement seen by The Associated Press.

Congo should be able to repay the investment after 25 years, said Moise Ekanga Lushyma, executive secretary coordinating the project for the Congolese government. At that point they will pay management fees or negotiate another loan — not necessarily with the Chinese — to produce minerals, he said.

  • KINSHASA, Congo

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