Comments by "Far Centrist" (@far_centrist) on "Zambia opens memorial for Chinese railway workers who died building Africa’s Tazara line" video.

  1. Let me tell you what these railways are about. Back during this era, zambia was blockaded by several western colonized neighbors, so zambia came to the US and asked them to build railways to help support the economy. They refused. Then they came to the brits, they too refused. And then they came to china. China during this time is facing its own difficulties, but they said "it's going to be difficult, but we'll do it" and so they mobilized their resources and people to build it. Even china has no such infrastructure, yet they are building one in zambia, when no advanced, financially capable rich western nation is willing to. 70 people died during the project, buried there and forever cherished by the zambians. They still tell this story to this day, a truly selfless act of distant neighbors who were willing to help others in time of need when they themselves struggled. And the people of the west are confused on why africa is pivoting to china who's "authoritarian and evil", when the belt and road initiative has lifted african economy by quite a margin, when the west hasn't build them anything.
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