The real irony here is the western world imposes moral standards on Africa – a starving nation with little to no power – in exchange for help, but we don’t do the same to China.
Now as a result we’ve created a literal monster, sending hundreds of billions of dollars a year to a country with no workers rights, environmental concerns, no democracy, the list is looooooooong… in return for GARBAGE knock off crappy “goods”.
Way to give away the better part of a century’s worth of hard work in less than a generation so a few multi-national (i.e. country-less) corporations could increase their profits exponentially.
Now we have a world where all of the available capital has been given to our “pseudo” ally/enemy in China (lets not even talk about the middle east or other regions), and corporations control the rest of it (and with it elections, especially in the USA with the recent Supreme Court decision allowing UNLIMITED ANONYMOUS campaign donations).
Shhhhh, if you listen carefully I think you can hear Orwell rolling in his grave.
