Lamentation indeed, short term, we all hope. However, trying to downplay China's growing influence in the world is an exercise in futility.

Like there is also a proposed rail that is to run from China, through Europe to the US.

Here, the PM talked of a Cape to Cairo rail, of course with the cross shoots - like the SGR.

I think a better definition of friendship is where one (with greater power) levers the other to better themselves, to the overall betterment of the Whole. i.e http://news.xinhuanet.co...4-05/18/c_133342725.htm

The beggar thy neighbor syndrome is some historical thinking IMO.

Not sure to what extent this agrees, but I note for the first time in aeons, Aly-Khan Satchu's article showed a vein of worry...

He talks of red-signals on Kenya's dashboard:
- Advisories and hasty departure of UK tourists
- US ambassador's new request for security assets
- Reduction of US embassy overall footprint
- Tourism on its knees; Msa recession evident

The Star: The Dash-Board Is Blinking Amber

That's true @metasploit. Where is KE w/o the West. We're still pro-West on a lot of fronts. To the extent of committing suicide over the EPL , but that doesn't mean we can't think for ourselves either. No.

When SA was reviewing its foreign policy to a more pro-East, South-South stance, Europe wasn't happy either. Unajua tu...Innovate/Evolve or die.

Let's also be frank. Like Apple being designed in Cali but made in China/East. What does that tell us? Now the manufacturers want to move to Africa, for the same reasons they moved from the West. Like those apparel companies looking to setup at our EPZ.

Let's see.

@maich you talk of ukoloni mambo leo,but its a fact the poor will remain colonised by even their fellow countrymen not even foreigners.

When we talk of China having USD 2Tn worth of US bonds, are we talking of the Chinese people through the gov or Chinese Corporations?


If the later, the reality is that the Chinese Corporations are actually subsidiaries and associates of American Multinationals like Apple, Microsoft, GE etc which cannot repatriate their overseas profits directly into the USA due to taxation. They buy gov debt all over the world instead of paying dividends to Shareholders.

The inclusion of caribbean banking centres in the list of top USA debt holders convinces me that the latter is the case.