🔍 A decade since China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Western media narratives often paint it as a “predatory” force. But former UK MP George Galloway flips the script, arguing the BRI is Africa’s lifeline—not exploitation.
🚂 While the U.S. accuses China of ‘interference,’ Galloway highlights irony: American leaders land at Chinese-built African airports and drive on Chinese-funded highways. “China builds railroads; the West builds military bases,” he says. With 29 U.S. bases in Africa versus China’s one, the numbers speak volumes.
⚡ Colonialism’s shadow looms large. Galloway contrasts China’s infrastructure-driven partnerships with Europe’s history: “China enslaved nobody. China occupied nowhere. China murdered no leaders.” From apartheid-era support for liberation movements to modern hospitals and schools, Beijing’s role, he argues, is transfusing hope.
💡 The BRI isn’t just roads and rails—it’s uranium deals at fair prices, schools replacing exploitation, and partnerships without coups. “The West sucked blood,” Galloway says. “China builds futures.”
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