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I’m trying very hard not to call you a moron because I’m in a good mood today. In 2025, Niger’s military government ordered three senior Chinese oil executives linked to CNPC, the SORAZ joint-venture refinery, and the West African Oil Pipeline Company to leave the country within 48 hours. They left as ordered. No coup, no regime change, no destabilisation campaign. There are other cases of Chinese businesses being expelled or pushed out of countries across the Global South, not just in Africa, and the Chinese have often simply taken the loss and moved on. Can you say the same about your European and American colonial masters? And while we’re at it, I want you to prove me wrong. Show me a record of Chinese loans or infrastructure deals that are demonstrably worse than comparable Western deals. I’m genuinely open to being corrected, but I want evidence, not recycled talking points about debt traps. From what I’ve seen, Chinese financing often comes with more attractive terms than people care to acknowledge, even if the conditions vary considerably from one deal to another. You claim the CPC is more brutal than its Western counterparts. On what material basis? What exactly are we comparing? Colonial massacres, imperialist wars, regime-change operations, and the exploitation of entire continents, or are we pretending Western history began yesterday? So far, what China has largely done in Africa is compete for influence by offering infrastructure, financing, and commercial partnerships. We’re in the courting phase of this relationship, and the Chinese have every incentive to demonstrate that they can offer African countries a better deal than the West. Where Chinese businesses exploit workers, disregard local interests, or behave badly, criticise them. Nobody is asking you to give China a free pass. But let’s not pretend that these problems emerged in a vacuum. Decades of Western domination have left many African countries negotiating from positions of weakness, with institutions too compromised to protect their own citizens effectively. Chinese businesses can exploit those weaknesses, too, and some clearly do. My point is that even China’s shortcomings need to be assessed against the actual historical and economic context, not some fantasy in which Western powers are the gold standard for responsible foreign engagement. You want to argue that China is worse? Fine. Bring the evidence, compare the actual terms and consequences, and make your case. I'll wait.

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2 Unspoken facts about 🇳🇬fuel subsidy >> The majority of rural households have always used firewood, even at the peak of the kerosene subsidy. >> Majority of petrol subsidy was captured by the middle class upwards. In summary, the “for the common man” is a political rhetoric