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Originally posted by zraver View PostNorway was a homogeneous country before oil. Most African states still have plank holders still alive and resource or agricultural export is all they have ever had combined with a deficit of an established intelligentsia.
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Originally posted by cdude View PostWell, maybe building roads/ports/cellular stations is not a bad start?
I tried to stay out of this but cdude and to some extend Dambisa Moyo missed the point about development of the third country and more importantly the so-called Chinese model: The best way to utilize limited resources in a "perfect economy" is allowing small private enterprise/mom&pop shops to thrive, the job of the government is to allow a safe framework for people to grow. This is the VERY model the Chinese government took during the first period of the rural reform from 1979 to 1984 in a nutshell.
Buying more cell stations, building ports /road without only would incur bad debt if there is NO people using them to generate growth. The Chinese government during the period of 1982 to 1989 was extremely careful not to overspend on infrastructure or incur debt. Under the guidance from Justin Lin's "rural first, urban second" policy. The current phase of the heavy infrastructural based investment did not kick in until 1992 after Deng's southern tour as a direct result of then PM Zhu's privatization drive which cut off 30 million from government pay roll. This is to set to ground work for the next round of growth. The "export driven growth" in many ways is not a complete picture of the Chinese economic story.
Dambisa Moyo, when it comes to China model, there is no such thing.Last edited by xinhui; 22 Dec 13,, 00:52.“the misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all” -- Joan Robinson
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The Benefits of Sino-African Economic Ties
This thread was created to address a topic originally begun in the thread
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/nav...tml#post944500To be Truly ignorant, Man requires an Education - Plato
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Originally posted by xinhui View PostGetting WAY off topic here.
I tried to stay out of this but cdude and to some extend Dambisa Moyo missed the point about development of the third country and more importantly the so-called Chinese model: The best way to utilize limited resources in a "perfect economy" is allowing small private enterprise/mom&pop shops to thrive, the job of the government is to allow a safe framework for people to grow. This is the VERY model the Chinese government took during the first period of the rural reform from 1979 to 1984 in a nutshell.
Buying more cell stations, building ports /road without only would incur bad debt if there is NO people using them to generate growth. The Chinese government during the period of 1982 to 1989 was extremely careful not to overspend on infrastructure or incur debt. Under the guidance from Justin Lin's "rural first, urban second" policy. The current phase of the heavy infrastructural based investment did not kick in until 1992 after Deng's southern tour as a direct result of then PM Zhu's privatization drive which cut off 30 million from government pay roll. This is to set to ground work for the next round of growth. The "export driven growth" in many ways is not a complete picture of the Chinese economic story.
Dambisa Moyo, when it comes to China model, there is no such thing.
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Originally posted by cdude View PostI think Eric Li argued that there is no such thing as China model and when was the last time China asked anyone to follow "China model"?. I think JAD and zraver were arguing that African countries would be better off NOT trading with China coz China is taking them out for a ride. And the debts Africans accumulated by borrowing from China? You mean low interest rates and often forgiven altogether loans.
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Originally posted by Bigfella View PostThis is the most successful thread I have ever started! Four pages in like two minutes I obviously have a knack for promoting discussion.
Edit: So, it was you who derailed the original thread, huh?No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
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cdude, I do not claim that Africa would be better off not trading with China. I don't know, don't really care. All I said was that Norway was a homogeneous and developed nation before it discovered oil. So please refrain from accusing me.
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Originally posted by cdude View PostI think Eric Li argued that there is no such thing as China model and when was the last time China asked anyone to follow "China model"?. I think JAD and zraver were arguing that African countries would be better off NOT trading with China coz China is taking them out for a ride. And the debts Africans accumulated by borrowing from China? You mean low interest rates and often forgiven altogether loans.To be Truly ignorant, Man requires an Education - Plato
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Originally posted by cdude View PostI think JAD and zraver were arguing that African countries would be better off NOT trading with China coz China is taking them out for a ride.
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostNo, they were arguing that China don't know what it's like trading with Africa, ie, your engineers have not been cooked for dinner yet.sigpic
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No, Chinese territorial disputes with Russia have been resolved, and the land border disputes that sparked off the Sino-Vietnamese wars are no longer extant. Same with Pakistan and Tajikistan.
I think nationalism as a factor in Chinese territorial disputes is overrated; China's various territorial disputes are more important in the larger strategic context. India hosts the Tibetan government-in-exile and on occasion elements in India press for an independent Tibet, Japan is the other unsinkable aircraft carrier and a regional power in its own right, the South China Sea is a useful forward frontier to block potential containment with ASEAN.
If you notice, the Chinese ceded territory, to my memory, in the Russian and Tajik disputes, splitting islands in the Russian case, and ceding a mountain range in the Tajik case. The Chinese are perfectly willing to cede territories or claims in a territorial dispute provided that the territorial dispute loses its strategic necessity.
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In the modern era territories don't really matter all that much; the value of territories comes in three forms, resources, infrastructure, and people. If you seize territories by force or guile, you gain the resources, destroy the infrastructure, and alienate the people. Out of the three, you lose two gains for one. By opting for investment and trade, however, you can derive benefit from both resources, infrastructure, and population.
There was an interesting article by an ex-Soviet spy who was ruined by the Chinese, and he made a pretty cogent point about how China tends to stir up territorial disputes over nothing for the mere point of screwing with the other country, and offering to make the problem go away for concessions that would not have been offered in the first place. It's like OoE's conclusion over the Chinese border intrusions with India; the point was that after the meeting scheduled for the next month, both sides could save and gain face by negotiating to make the border intrusions go away.Last edited by Inst; 29 Dec 13,, 18:42.
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