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PP1 14- Land grabbing - Coggle Diagram
PP1 14- Land grabbing
Land grabbing
General notes
Due to the rising wealth of middle classes, there has been a boom in the use of rare earth minerals/metals.
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Emerging powers are increasingly extracting raw material in the Amazon, India, and Africa.
The push for these rare earth minerals has had an impact on Africa- 70% of the world’s largest mining deals were in Africa.
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In 1971, the UN decided that the PRC was the rightful representative of the Chinese country. It became essentially the US’ influence against the world.
The PRC became the representative of the Chinese, against the wishes of the USA’s delegation. Most African nations voted with the US, against the PRC.
In 2007, China and its sphere of influence voted to support the North Koreans, along with most of Africa. A contrast.
In the last 40 years, China has bought allies in Africa.
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China is buying allies in Africa, shifting them out of the US sphere of influence
Chinese banks give low interest loans to African countries, unlike the USA. China does not care about money, it’s about politics.
Chinese trade is cheaper for African nations, pushing them way from China.
In 2016, China traded three times as much money with Africa than the US.
China has been using infrastructure projects to boost political influence. If an African country votes that Taiwan exists, they receive on average 1.8 fewer infrastructure projects than those who vote with China.
Africa has become China’s China, that is to say that the country is exploiting the African continent in the same way as the west used to exploit China.
China’s land-grabbing in Africa is evidence to suggest that the country will become a superpower in the future.
Impact of CHina's move
There is a new concern that China will hide its domestic industrial production by relocating it to Africa.
African environmental laws are very poor, and environmental initiatives have suffered as a result of slow policy enactment, inadequate environmental legislation, poor legal enforcement, and insufficient funds to implement laws.
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