Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço paid a state visit to China from March 14-17 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Whilst in China he gave an exclusive interview to He Yanke for the CGTN series Leaders Talk. He Yanke noted that Lourenço has visited China on numerous occasions since 2000, including as the Secretary General … Continue reading Angolan President: We know what colonisation is and the Chinese are not colonising Africa but cooperating with us
I mean Angola don’t have the best (read: have one of the worst) human rights records, not too far behind the DRC, so I’m not sure I’d trust what their president says on cooperating given he’s a seasoned pro at exploitation so is probably pretty numb to it
That said, I’m not going to pretend to know more than a reasonably clued up Angolan neutral but they’re probably too busy being oppressed and or killed to form an opinion.
I mean Angola don’t have the best (read: have one of the worst) human rights records, not too far behind the DRC, so I’m not sure I’d trust what their president says on cooperating given he’s a seasoned pro at exploitation so is probably pretty numb to it
That said, I’m not going to pretend to know more than a reasonably clued up Angolan neutral but they’re probably too busy being oppressed and or killed to form an opinion.