This $1.7B Railway Is U.S.’s First Challenge to China in Africa

This $1.7B Railway Is U.S.’s First Challenge to China in Africa | WSJ Breaking Ground

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The $1.7 billion U.S.-backed Lobito Corridor Project aims to revitalize a rail system from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo, securing vital mineral supply chains essential for EV batteries and other green tech. It's a key move in the U.S.’s pushback against China's Belt and Road initiatives in Africa, reflecting its growing foreign policy focus on the continent.
WSJ explores the railway megaproject and examines the high-stakes battle between the U.S. and China for economic influence in Africa.
Chapters:
0:00 Economic influence in Africa
0:41 Lobito Corridor Project
2:47 China’s Belt and Road Initiative
4:07 U.S. engagement
5:24 What this means for Africa’s future
Breaking Ground digs into megaprojects around the world, uncovering what these developments might mean for the surrounding region and the ultimate costs.
#China #Africa #WSJ

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@wsj Ай бұрын

Read more about how this railway project is helping the U.S. derail China’s influence in Africa: on.wsj.com/3Q9XabD

@lm_b5080 Ай бұрын

WSJ could've done well to actually interview an Angolan for this? makes it seem as if you're very much taking the neo-colonial route i guess. not a good look for your brand

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

Chinese don’t view infrastructure building by anyone else as zero sum game Or else they would not have passed on their HSR tech to Indonesia after building their HSR line

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap

@user-zp6dz9jw3g Ай бұрын

少说话，多做事。指责，谩骂，印刷美元无法改变非洲，非洲需要实业，而不是政客的口号。

@KinLee919 Ай бұрын

an african news stroy without interview a single African people?

@baseball2662 Ай бұрын

I wonder why? 🤔

@MetalRocksMe. Ай бұрын

They never bring the countries they want to exploit into the conversation.

@MrDarthBudda Ай бұрын

It's all propaganda. The West does not care about Africa it's rather oblivious.

@peterleung8372 Ай бұрын

Good news How to collect money for the project

@peterleung8372 Ай бұрын

After their Minerals Uncle Sam

@gabrieldsouza6541 Ай бұрын

4 out of 6 minutes of some white dudes talking China-US relations instead of actually talking about the railway project. Joke of a video.

@westside213 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the racist third worlder perspective. The real problem with this video is that it doesn't go into how we're wasting more money on other countries instead of building up the border wall on the Mexican border and deporting tens of millions of illegals.

@goutvols103 Ай бұрын

You mean colonizer.

@gabrieldsouza6541 Ай бұрын

@@westside213 i just want to hear from some Angolans working on the project not a British professor.

@westside213 Ай бұрын

@@gabrieldsouza6541 fair enough but WSJ is a globalist propaganda rag so you'll only hear from globalist bankers and NGO "experts". They hate the people who actually do the work.

@Booz2020 Ай бұрын

Slava 🇹🇼

@amunra5330 Ай бұрын

Since when did the US show ANY interest in building infrastructure in Africa? What's funny every documentary that the WSJ does on China they never interview someone from the Chinese point of view.

@Hostessmoses Ай бұрын

Rare minerals are in Africa. It's not hard to do a little bit of researching. Rare minerals for EVs and next generation technology. Every superpower wants a piece of the pie. China loves exploiting other countries resources until it's extinct and then moving on to another country.

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

Or people on the ground implementing the policy

@themiddlekingdom9121 Ай бұрын

When China come out of its external forces, aka a century of humiliation, internal turmoils, and then they opened up for businesses in late of 1970s, do all kind of diplomatic relationships and businesses and trades around the world, then the U S and its Allies are taking notices. After all, the Chinese go into any country to do busineses and trades but not to interfere in the locals' governments. Most importantly, they purchase the raw materials from the countries they doing businesses they have relationship with, they don't go to bomb, overthrow the government and then take the raw materials for free.

@lucios_7266 Ай бұрын

What do you think China is going to say? The usual “this is great for our mutual friendship, what environmental concerns? Never head of human rights and uigurs…” I don’t need a propaganda point of view use your brain

@mosijahi3096 Ай бұрын

When it’s good business since, that’s what works for US contractors for a business since . 5:28

@DanBurgaud Ай бұрын

USA to build Railroads, Ports and Roads? More like USA will build Bases, Bars and Brothels instead.

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap 😂

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap 😂

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

This is just NONSENSE and talk. They AREN'T going to build ANYTHING. The railway is ALREADY built and maintainence and EXPANSION are in Chinese hands.

@Booz2020 Ай бұрын

Slava TSMC 🇹🇼

@Alastair_Adana Ай бұрын

@Booz2010 Taiwan and Ukraine are both rebelling territories that should be returned to their owners.

@yeetian2774 Ай бұрын

Could WSJ tell Us government to save their own crumbling railway first? What a Pathetic report and government policy.

@taireport Ай бұрын

its not like Angola needs a high speed line. It just needs a reliable line. The European companies involved are the best in rail line construction, the US is just financing

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

Chinese don’t view infrastructure building by anyone else as zero sum game Or else they would not have passed on their HSR tech to Indonesia after building their HSR line

@vooteimer1234 Ай бұрын

We can fix ours later. There is a deadline in Africa

@yeetian2774 Ай бұрын

@@vooteimer1234 please ask the American taxpayers whether they wanna save Africa first. Africa has a deadline? Since when US started to care about Africa?

@Dave05J Ай бұрын

@@yeetian2774 what part of "loan" don't you understand ?

@Aurica34 Ай бұрын

I see white dudes talking. Can we please have an Angola person actually chime in on the actual situation?

@Ahoooooooo Ай бұрын

No ! It has to be a white dude . Angola and China should ask his opinion before doing business.

@maherhamadouch2005 Ай бұрын

they can't because the media won't like it

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

Well said and well OBSERVED

@ob_15 Ай бұрын

While in the last 23 years the US government has focused on wars, the Chinese government has been busy improving their country infrastructure while gaining influence in Africa and Latin America.

@Hostessmoses Ай бұрын

"Gaining influence" is a strong phrase for literally exploiting MULTIPLE foreign countries RESOURCES for Chinas own good! And leaving countless people to suffer. They do it in Africa, Philippines, and they even have their hands in South America. Stop acting like China is doing all this for "good" causes.

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

Precisely. China has focused on DEVELOPMENT and WIN strategy. There's NO MYSTERY.

@goutvols103 Ай бұрын

Really you are a "wumao". "As of September 30, 2008, PEPFAR was supporting life-saving antiretroviral treatment for more than two million people living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. When the President announced PEPFAR in 2003, only 50,000 people in all of Sub-Saharan Africa were receiving antiretroviral treatment."

@westside213 Ай бұрын

Are you planning to move to China? It's such a paradise after all!

@Hostessmoses Ай бұрын

Don't even try replying in the comments. If it's anti-China, it'll just get taken down

@stefenleung Ай бұрын

US is just talking. Can you really tell us how many km railroad they built? how much money they really put in, not just "promise" to put in?

@dannytadashi4235 Ай бұрын

WSJ IS A BS FAKE NEWS AND LIES AND PROPAGANDA 😃👍‼️

@peterg0 Ай бұрын

American promise is a joke 🤣

@makoriasati4980 Ай бұрын

US IS BROKE. THE FAST DYING EMPIRE.

@willengel2458 Ай бұрын

as the saying goes, "I hear thunder, but i do not see rain." how about Build Back Better World? or the Spice Corridor from India to Israel?

@kenfern2259 Ай бұрын

more money for israel

@Go4Broke247 Ай бұрын

Chinese Builders, American Bombers.

@kevinjenner9502 Ай бұрын

Don’t discount China’s recent history of illegal wars, occupations, regime change, and proxy wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.

@westside213 Ай бұрын

Yea China has built a lot of concentration camps for sure.

@juanspyro4658 Ай бұрын

China builds so much because they have to constantly rebuild their collapsing tofu buildings

@Go4Broke247 Ай бұрын

@@juanspyro4658 it take the US 20 years to build back that half broken Baltimore bridge even hiring hispanics won't do the trick. Lol

@Go4Broke247 Ай бұрын

@@juanspyro4658 and the US government lies and can't even fix basic pot holes lol

@Stephen-we6do Ай бұрын

Don't most African countries hold more debt at higher interest rates to American and European firms?

@mamotalemankoe3775 Ай бұрын

Yes but we don't talk about that. Just like how the most valuble mines in wartorn DRC are owned by Canadian companies but we pretend they are all owned by Chinese firms.

@briantasca402 Ай бұрын

Usury, (((who))) created that?

@kevin_aldo Ай бұрын

@@mamotalemankoe3775 The west ignorance/propaganda at its finest😂

@bluepearlagain Ай бұрын

They do - th west pays 0.8% and Africa pays 20%

@inconvenientTruther Ай бұрын

us haven't build trains at home, why does it think it can do it in Africa

@therminust4 Ай бұрын

its called Murican Dream, just a dream without reality

@buravan1512 Ай бұрын

not only that, that project is vulnerable ... any small misunderstanding those AFRICAN STATES will kick US out, yesterday NIGER did the same, in TCHAD... US is on hot seat. nobody fear US anymore.

@PauloAdriano-zo2ng Ай бұрын

😅😂🤣@@Shadowless_Kick

@electromega3077 Ай бұрын

The funniest part is a great numbers of US railroad were build by the Chinese workers.

@Ynhockey Ай бұрын

It says the Europeans will build it, not the Americans.

@bett.k7146 Ай бұрын

As an African, It's astonishing that in a video discussing a critical Angolan issue, not a single Angolan was given the opportunity to share their perspective. This oversight is glaring and undermines the authenticity of the narrative.

@kwabenasakyi 23 күн бұрын

Cause this procjet is to milk the ressource out of Africa. Both China and US just want the ressource and that has no benefits to Africans. It's better that we refine in Africa and sell it for the market value instead of sending it to other countries cause we don't what the contract is or can read it online.

@kelvinking4022 Ай бұрын

USA also lending. Thought uncle Sam was calling this debt trap!

@MayorMcC666 Ай бұрын

so is the debt trap bad or not?

@pagelu-mt7rh Ай бұрын

@@MayorMcC666 US good,China bad.

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

Depends on if you are American or not

@Bell_plejdo568p Ай бұрын

China is not de8t trapping tho and also the US will use violence to get what it wants

@jogo798 Ай бұрын

They already have imf for that

@IKEMENOsakaman Ай бұрын

China: Bullet Train USA: Bullet Brain

@goutvols103 Ай бұрын

"As of September 30, 2008, PEPFAR [ President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] was supporting life-saving antiretroviral treatment for more than two million people living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. When President Bush announced PEPFAR in 2003, only 50,000 people in all of Sub-Saharan Africa were receiving antiretroviral treatment."

@Booz2020 Ай бұрын

Slava TSMC 🇹🇼

@kevin_aldo Ай бұрын

@@Booz2020slava palestine? Maybe its time for the US to stop funding the israel and ACCEPT PALESTINE TO ENTER THE UN

@Anonymous------ Ай бұрын

@@goutvols103 And with fakeccines!

@electromega3077 Ай бұрын

Because bullet and train are two incompatible words in the US. They associate these two words as a mass shooting in a train instead of associating with a highspeed train.

@mykegoh Ай бұрын

Bcos US is sore abt China winning and now wants to spoil things for China. 😂😂😂😂😂

@MetalRocksMe. Ай бұрын

They’re too late! While they focused on war and bullying, China focused on infrastructure and now the US is panicking. 😅

@charlesyeeh Ай бұрын

“Battle over an African railway”? You meant, China builds it, the US bombs it? And see who can do it better and faster? Of course the US would always win. Bravo! 😂

@kevmeister6466 Ай бұрын

10 derailments a year is extraordinary in a positive sense, if you look at the US there were about three per day last year...

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap

@packsedit8365 Ай бұрын

😙😗😗

@MrGoalie2012 Ай бұрын

WHy TF is America worrying about OTHER COUNTRIES INFRASTRUCTURE. FIX OURS FIRST

@Dave05J Ай бұрын

Look up the infrastructure bill. Get some education for once.

@markosmataasii2000 Ай бұрын

@@Dave05J Tell me what significant infra has been done with that infrastructure bill? Nada... Only powerpoints only. Lo..

@basshunterdota625 Ай бұрын

US cities looks like village when compared with Chinese cities @@Dave05J

@pedroroque8681 Ай бұрын

They are not worried. They just want to steal the raw goods for their economy.

@kevin_aldo Ай бұрын

@@Dave05J 1 triliion for 10years, so around +100 billion/year. While your military budget almost exceed 1 trillion per year😂😂

@ice-cold4342 Ай бұрын

I recently got back from East Africa, and the only thing American was the Boeing plane that took me there and few iPhones.the the cars were Japanese And everything else Chinese

@teddylumidi Ай бұрын

Boeing will kill us. So many problems with US Boeing

@Booz2020 Ай бұрын

Slava TSMC 🇹🇼

@york163 Ай бұрын

The cars will be also Chinese in 10 years.

@vinicio1089 Ай бұрын

@@york163 who is the toyota of the chinese market?

@kevin_aldo Ай бұрын

@@vinicio1089byd or wuling

@user-rx2eq7dj6w Ай бұрын

It is a joke when "US" and "railway" come together.

@luoxx422 Ай бұрын

Yeah right, when China did the rebuild, the railway was crumbling, and when American money came in, unlike Chinese a debt trap and exploitation, it will make everything and everyone better. Btw, Tanzania-Zambia Railway built by China in the 70s is still operating normally, so guess who's fault that the railway rebuild did not work.

@Bell_plejdo568p Ай бұрын

Exactly and the US will voliance to get what it wants

@Dk-hu5je Ай бұрын

Guys, use proper english

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

@@Dk-hu5je1:49 US debt trap 😊

@Ju2000lo Ай бұрын

talkin abt crumbling railways maybe America shouls ask China to build railways in the US

@nutsbutdum Ай бұрын

Let me guess... this won't be called a "debt trap"!?

@mafumanelephoto4730 Ай бұрын

It will be called GREEN INVESTMENT 😅😅

@henry-pj9zo Ай бұрын

the US should fix your own railway first.

@araray2033 Ай бұрын

Past US involvement in Angola was to fight against USSR, and to date it is to stop Chinese influence. Infrastructural development is anathema to US. Dilapidated and embarrassingly wonky railways across the US testify to this fact. If current desperation for rare minerals push the US to invest in Angola’s railways, they make sure it is used only for the purpose of mineral extraction, lest Angola takes advantage of it for economic development.

@dingo1yongo Ай бұрын

In other words, it has nothing to do with Africans but rather economic interests competition eith China.

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

The railroad is being built. The Chinese government are WAY AHEAD both POLITICALLY and FINANCIALLY. African GOVERNMENTS and people can SEE the results of China's economic policy

@goutvols103 Ай бұрын

The railroad that the communist Chinese built is falling apart.

@RespectLoveUnityPeace Ай бұрын

We need to build modern HSR in America before focusing on helping Africa. China has tens of thousands of miles while we have a few dozen…

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

China is 14,000 miles USA is 50 to 70’miles depending on what your definition of HSR is

@DDDrumpf Ай бұрын

@@DW-op7lyit's more than 45.000 km or 30.000 miles now!! They plan to build another 30.000 km in the next decade!!

@RespectLoveUnityPeace Ай бұрын

@@DW-op7ly China actually has over 20000 miles. In America, it’s 125mph (200kmh) but I believe we should adhere to the common international standards at 155mph (250kmh). America is falling behind in so many categories right now.

@admiralwei Ай бұрын

@RespectLoveUnityPeace Meanwhile, China is working on upgrading their high-speed train from 350km to 450km.

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

Thanks for the updated numbers

@Squirtle-xm6bi Ай бұрын

China: One Belt One Road USA: One Bomb One Road

@mikef888au1 Ай бұрын

Ask Google - In the USA. For the majority of 2023 the total number of train accidents increased slightly to 4,845, including more than 600 deaths. When comparing 2022 and 2023, the total number of derailments declined about 2.6% - but there were still nearly three derailments a day nationwide.3...!

@user-yg31415 Ай бұрын

Note that China is building infrastructure, in China, like craze -- USA should take that cue and build its own domestic infrastructure, which is crumbling.

@CheyonExploring Ай бұрын

China's railroads and high speed rail systems are really as spectacular as I've ever seen.

@amittangale1317 Ай бұрын

So it's not okay to China to put its resources in Africa but it's okay for US how it is any different

@sejjr79ify Ай бұрын

Here in the US, we need to build up and fix plus update and upgrade our own railways and infrastructure first

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Ай бұрын

1:49 US debt trap 😂

@huckleberryfinn6578 Ай бұрын

It's not just help, it's an investment to get access to minerals for the EV industry. But yeah, you need to invest in your infrastructure as well.

@sejjr79ify Ай бұрын

For those of you who agree with me on the comment I made, I’m willing to invite you all to stand with me, we’re stronger if we all stand together in support of

@prajwal1341 Ай бұрын

no u need to fund proxy wars why u need railways?

@DeepVerma728 Ай бұрын

China has been building Rail ways on the Continent of Africa for the last 200 years.

@FOREVERINPROFITSFIP-eh6rn Ай бұрын

The Copperbelt is in Zambia, please do you research before sharing otherwise that’s ignorance.

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

Precisely well said and well OBSERVED ❤

@ubulendo8788 Ай бұрын

@@petergreen5337and we look upto these countries interms of education but failing to research and post right information

@ambessaseway5594 Ай бұрын

Copperbelt is in Zambia and Congo DRC ist 2 largest copper producer in the World after chile

@klee1987 Ай бұрын

1:26 10 derailments a year extraordinary... Meanwhile in the USA: over 1,300 per year in the last decade

@gift7233 Ай бұрын

Africa will go with China not bullies.

@kwabenasakyi 23 күн бұрын

they both bad

@user-vq1pt7yw9l 21 күн бұрын

@@kwabenasakyi Us is worse

@jasonlah88 Ай бұрын

Another China and Africa joint cooperation 👍👍👍👍👌👌💪💪💪

@borisbacic3658 Ай бұрын

Learn from China

@roystonboodoo7525 Ай бұрын

No different from IMF loans.

@levismith7444 Ай бұрын

IMF loans don’t seize ports and mines when countries don’t pay😂 china on the other hand..

@DW-op7ly Ай бұрын

China has not seized ports or mines If your taking the port in Sri Lanka the Chinese company that took over has invested even more money in the area

@DDDrumpf Ай бұрын

@@levismith7444IMF loans don't seize your assets, only the Western MNCs will do that!! Hahaha.. hahaha.. hahaha..

@roystonboodoo7525 Ай бұрын

@levismith7444 .. Having previously employed Economic Hitmen, do you think they will stop there? Clandestine moves in tandem with corporations/(CIA) is their Forte.

@Expl0rer. Ай бұрын

The question is why Angola is still poor with all these minerals. Who benefit here . 🤔

@jesuspulido3311 Ай бұрын

They mention getting cobalt supply from the Congo but don't mention the horrendous conditions those people work in , we need to have a better way smh

@Noah-ws8ho Ай бұрын

Improving infrastructure would mean that the supply lin wold become more simplified, which would lt th operations be run with more oversight by larger companies. That would likely significantly improve the working conditions.

@gabrieldsouza6541 Ай бұрын

they choose to work in the mines because it’s better pay than farming. no one is forcing them to mine cobalt.

@petergreen5337 Ай бұрын

Or the civil wars The CIA caused from the sixties to 00s JUST prevent access to these VERY MINERAL RESOURCES.

@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529 Ай бұрын

@@gabrieldsouza6541 i remember a 15 yr old kid walking up to me and telling me she wanted to be in a relationship with me so i got it on camera and allat, made her sign a waiver and everything, which she did of her own volition....she said i looked better than all the boys in her class which is why she did it...nobody forced her aftrerall so it's alright ig🤡🤡🤡

@thatoneguywholovesthena-4529 Ай бұрын

incase any mentally challenged person cannot tell, it's sarcasm

@Linkwii64 Ай бұрын

We can't even build a dam railroads. But we do have money to throw around that other can't resist.😂

@andir7374 Ай бұрын

The US has the best railway system in the world. The problem is that they dont use it for people, only for freight. So the US actually as a valid partner in this field

@k-studio8112 Ай бұрын

@@andir7374really? Metro lines in China alone are almost unmatchable to that of US railway system

@Dave05J Ай бұрын

@@k-studio8112 the US has the most extensive rail lines in the world !

@TAL142 Ай бұрын

@@andir7374 best railway with 3 derailment per day. I would say it is badly maintain too in the US.

@markosmataasii2000 Ай бұрын

@@andir7374 Pathetic standards, you call that best when US has average train derailment of 1300. Lol. It's the largest train network because it counts those dilapidated third world rail lines. Not to mention the electrification rate of the US rail lines is so akin to a thrid world one. Much more like a third world rate masked with gucci just to make a pretty face. Lol.

@deadbutmoving Ай бұрын

Good thing the Europeans are building it. God help Africa if America starts building infrastructure over there. Ever seen the rail lines we Americans are trying to build in California? Huge Cost overruns, decades long delays, endless debates, and it's still not open. YOU DO NOT WANT AMERICA BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE, but we are really good at destroying infrastructure.

@cjstrader8171 15 күн бұрын

It does my heart good to see America succeed where the competition (China) fails. Probably because out stuff works as intended and is built to last.

@teoengchin Ай бұрын

Why dont you do a progress report on all the Build Back Better World projects launched by USA and G7?

@kevinrock9802 Ай бұрын

JA JA JA

@deragoth4250 Ай бұрын

Read a lot of comments. The USA is not building the rails, it the Europeans. USA will just help fund the process so USA expertise or lack of in building rail isn’t in question here

@nulnoh219 10 күн бұрын

Meanwhile, US rail infrastructure at home is falling apart...

@feral5404 Ай бұрын

I watched for four seconds, realized the railway isn't in the united states, exhaled, and clicked out.

@ntokozolugogo4762 Ай бұрын

😂I don't think this is true, Angola was just sanctioned by the United Sn@kes of America...If it's true, they will soon regret it

@juvenaldasilva413 Ай бұрын

It is true

@slypear Ай бұрын

Good report. But at 1:26, saying the stations weren't well built is questionable. Perhaps they weren't? I conjecture they weren't well maintained~

@308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane Ай бұрын

There is NO WAY congress would appropriate this kind of money for Africa, and private companies would NEVER touch it.

@julienckjm7430 Ай бұрын

Soon Angola will need democracy and liberation. You watch

@familypetvacaville1925 Ай бұрын

POOR JOURNALISM

@RickBlaine Ай бұрын

I don't think you can call it journalism. Just saying.

@danskey2001 Ай бұрын

So why they are building railway lines to where minerals are extracted? We don’t think same thing like during colonisation period

@louistan7560 Ай бұрын

When will the goods be delivered?

@innocentmushi3036 Ай бұрын

How can US help Angola while they can't build a single high speed railway in US. 😂

@SirYang-mx5xz Ай бұрын

Has US built any railway in the last 50 years?

@luting3 26 күн бұрын

But US tired down lots of those

@jludo Ай бұрын

I dont understand the playing up the saddling africa with debt point. Africa being unable to repay the loans sounds like a china problem, not an africa problem.

@Mohan-jd8fc Ай бұрын

True for in general but China doesn't extend the debt payment period instead they take over assets like ports airports etc, and used for their purpose mainly Military.

@abekatten4744 Ай бұрын

They have to pay back their loans, else they will never receive any more loans from countries or the World Bank, which is essential for them.

@levismith7444 Ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠@@Mohan-jd8fc that fact goes right over people’s heads

@alezacrespublik6655 Ай бұрын

@@Mohan-jd8fcYeah sure never saw Chinese Navy Ships in Hambantota Port

@jin_asap Ай бұрын

@@levismith7444 nonsense. They have restructured many debts and forgiven numerous loans. Their interest rates are also lower than IMF's and world bank's. A significant amount of African debts are owed to westerners.

@teflerchina.2987 Ай бұрын

Key words. Vital minerals. The U.S has been exploiting Congo for its minerals despite saying it would ban minerals dug up by child labour. Many other countries also exploit the labour force mining minerals that are used in cellphones, laptops and vehicles. Basically the U.S is trying to boost its Africa ties to secure more minerals and cut China, Chile and Peru out of the equation. One report by the United States Institute of Peace says that "To counter China's head start in Africa, Washington must roll out "more vigorous commercial diplomacy with a keen eye toward building critical minerals partnership in Africa,"

@raymondkanda-kabamba9266 Ай бұрын

Is there any modernity in all this project, any win-win approach ? ?

@dzonikg Ай бұрын

Comparing China and USA railway is only in west propaganda, in realty China is 100 years ahead

@soothsayer2406 Ай бұрын

lol Merica only cares now....not before when the Africans really needed help

@PM2024- Ай бұрын

02:27 whoa that is a grim shot 🎥

@ptiz6231 Ай бұрын

‘’After we leave, they will build schools and hospitals for you, and increase your wages. This is not because they have a conscience, nor because they have become good people, but because we have been here.”

@questionmore4675 Ай бұрын

America only talk no action .

@pedroalmeida4335 Ай бұрын

Angola is going to win! The whole US v China is blow out of proportion and we already fought and defeated American Imperialism together with the Cubans. America has come back around and Angola needs the money and expertise while allowing for the US to maintain some sort of leverage in that corner of the world. Everywhere else it is being kicked out. As stated the Chinese built the original railroad. The US is simply making a 200 million investment to revamp and connect it to neighboring countries which should mean more money, peace and stability in the region.

@LearningwithLani Ай бұрын

It’s unfortunate that the US only started really investing in Africa after already taking so much during colonialism because of competition with China. Also, is anyone going to talk about the child slavery happening in the Congo over mining the cobalt??

@eal8645 Ай бұрын

When was the last time that anyone knows about “a successful US sponsored infrastructure project” anywhere in the world? US can’t do it in their own homeland. How can they do it anywhere else?

@user-uc5um3io2j Ай бұрын

But what about America's own railways?

@linko1998 Ай бұрын

US Debt trap? Also it's not a chinese railway problem if the africans don't do maintenance

@ML3180 Ай бұрын

Lol to anyone actually thinking that either Angola or DR Congo will maintain that railway- which was the reason why the US and its allies are intervening right now.

@gustavoneves2278 Ай бұрын

The rail 🛤 ( Caminho de Ferro de Benguela) Benguela Rail was built during Portuguese 🇵🇹 administration.

@annavalentinovna5267 Ай бұрын

But taking minerals just makes Africa more poor

@rap3208 Ай бұрын

It is the west that was taking natural resources for about two centuries. Shipping the raw ore to their home countries and making them into products that are much more expensive that they market back to africa. they were practically taking africa's natural resources for free. The chinese companies there are establishoing the refining and manufacturing plants there that gives more added value to afric's natural resources. Like for copper, the chinese instead of taking the ores to China, they erected smelters and refineries in the african nations so they can sell their copper at a much more value.

@annavalentinovna5267 Ай бұрын

@@rap3208 Sad that still not some ready products

@driftert5687 Ай бұрын

American politicians need to put real money to where their mouth is. Biden needs to go back to check how much money left in his pocket after sending tons of money to Ukraine, Izreal 🤣🤣

@huanghermann5207 Ай бұрын

Let's see when it is operational!

@raglifetv9 Ай бұрын

Transport has always been very important for those who know

@JigilJigil Ай бұрын

*Wumaos are all over the comment section.*

@rap3208 Ай бұрын

If almost everybody are saying the same thing that is contrary to your comments, IT IS YOU.

@pr0newbie Ай бұрын

@@rap3208 Let them sleep

@jacksmith-mu3ee 10 күн бұрын

Bumao spotted

@MrEnajiza Ай бұрын

Chinese Bots drinking Cope Soda realizing that China is spreading their engineering skills in Tofu Mad disaster skills...lol

@user-dl9nx6dp6q 14 күн бұрын

It will take america 250 years and cost 500 trillion. Just forget about it.

@masatonakazawa6945 Ай бұрын

The working condition for cobalt excavation are terrible. I hope some of the US money will be directed to improving the condition.

@rajahua6268 Ай бұрын

I don't know, my experience is best builder of infrastructure is either British or south Korean.

@AndreaDoesYoga Ай бұрын

This railway project is a geopolitical chess game 🌍

@thiamyeeteo4768 18 күн бұрын

Yea let’s see how long that railway is gonna stay as PowerPoint slides before the US outsources the construction to a Chinese company.

@murdelabop 22 күн бұрын

Great. Now can we have some of that investment on our own rail infrastructure? Like in the Northeast Corridor?

@HKim0072 Ай бұрын

2:51 lol, Doosan is a Korean company.

@bramjay7611 15 күн бұрын

Alstom France in marocco, siemens germany in egypt, turkey china in tanzania, china in kenya.

@AtomBackerZs Ай бұрын

😮

@nkamajola7099 29 күн бұрын

From South Africa , SA 🇿🇦🇿🇦 , we will always thank Russia🇷🇺, China 🇨🇳, Cuba 🇨🇺 and much of Eastern world for supporting us against US and western sponsored white minority European settlers during apartheid in our country . China ,Russia and Cuba supported us with materials , wepons , finances so that today we can be free. MY point is that , we know our history and we know our real friends

@markatingi8645 Ай бұрын

AFRICOM and strategic security partnerships are also key

@tommarney1561 Ай бұрын

The Chinese built the Tazara railway connecting to the Indian Ocean at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania back in the seventies, and railroads have connected the Copperbelt to South Africa via Zambia and Zimbabwe for a hundred years or more.

@trumpbuddha1053 Ай бұрын

China must not flood the market with cheap railways, we can’t exploit African any more 😂

@luting3 26 күн бұрын

If China could not have it done properly in 2 billion dollars, it is hard to believe that US could have it done in 1.7 billion dollars. There is something fishy there. Need dig more into it.