<story><title>Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space</title><url>https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmdshiftf4</author><text>Sub-Saharan Africa feels like a missed opportunity now for Europe and the US.&lt;p&gt;While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis  into its development and future prosperity.&lt;p&gt;Some will proclaim &amp;quot;But they&amp;#x27;ll owe China! That won&amp;#x27;t end well!&amp;quot;, which is shortsighted, lacking in self-awareness and playing into the &amp;quot;everyone that isn&amp;#x27;t us is the boogeyman&amp;quot; narrative the West likes to maintain.&lt;p&gt;In the same time that China has been spending its money on African investment, the US has been spending literally trillions on literally baseless wars, directly costing the lives of a countless amount of people in doing so and upending the lives of countless others.&lt;p&gt;Good on China, and good for Africa. I hope to live to see that continent prosper, although if any success is in sight I&amp;#x27;m sure we&amp;#x27;ll see the US find &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;reason&lt;/i&gt; to deploy the so-richly invested military there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throw_m239339</author><text>&amp;gt; While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis into its development and future prosperity.&lt;p&gt;If these really cared about Africa, they would have stopped subsidizing their agriculture. They don&amp;#x27;t. &amp;quot;Aid&amp;quot; here is a way to hinder development.&lt;p&gt;China is being scummy, but who&amp;#x27;s criticizing China here? Europeans who did far worse to the African continent and their inhabitants? talk about lacking of any sense of self-awareness.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space</title><url>https://qz.com/africa/1772671/ethiopia-launched-its-first-space-satellite-with-chinas-help/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cmdshiftf4</author><text>Sub-Saharan Africa feels like a missed opportunity now for Europe and the US.&lt;p&gt;While the US and EU has been focused on donating aid, or through NGOs merely shipping Africans into Europe without much of a plan and then shrugging their shoulders when problems arise, China has been making deals there and investing an utterly staggering amount on an on-going basis  into its development and future prosperity.&lt;p&gt;Some will proclaim &amp;quot;But they&amp;#x27;ll owe China! That won&amp;#x27;t end well!&amp;quot;, which is shortsighted, lacking in self-awareness and playing into the &amp;quot;everyone that isn&amp;#x27;t us is the boogeyman&amp;quot; narrative the West likes to maintain.&lt;p&gt;In the same time that China has been spending its money on African investment, the US has been spending literally trillions on literally baseless wars, directly costing the lives of a countless amount of people in doing so and upending the lives of countless others.&lt;p&gt;Good on China, and good for Africa. I hope to live to see that continent prosper, although if any success is in sight I&amp;#x27;m sure we&amp;#x27;ll see the US find &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;reason&lt;/i&gt; to deploy the so-richly invested military there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rb808</author><text>China is a big investor but its just one of many. European companies always had a big footprint.
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