Hello to my African readers,
It’s a while since I have gotten the time to write on here. But never the less I have been reading a lot of the contributions on here presented by the different reporters around the continent. Keep up the spirit.
This morning or indeed today I come back on here to have a few queries about this China military issue that is disturbing the west espespecially the Americans.
First of all I will say that China may not have the right to exceed its military capacity in this era where such weapons and mighty is not needed but it is obliged to do so.
Reasons are many but let me expound on a few especially regarding the domestic and the outside frontiers.Domestically China needs a strong and professional military that can be counted on in case it’s ever growing economy is threatened in any way. That is really simple logic that can be seen by a peasant African living in Uganda like me.
With all the dollars and the mineral reserves that this country has, its surely understandable that it needs a stable, well trained and professional military to take care of its resources in case there is a threat of any kind. And such threats include the everyday mining accidents that we hear of in China. I myself im a strong believer/activist of human rights and I do know that China is one of those countries where human rights is not respected. But at least the Chinese people have other basic needs in life to smile about that their government is giving. I mean for a country to host the Olympics is surely a credit. For a country to have a veto at the United Nations is unbelievably a strong opportunity. Not a single one does have that power in Africa. Even though we are a big continent and very populous. I do believe as well that Chinese hospitals do have drugs and doctors to attend to the locals. The roads are in better shape than most of these African countries that are praised to have human rights Uganda inclusive. So I think that apart from the human rights issue, China is a strong role model for its neighbors and indeed the African continent as well.

The other reason why China needs a strong and sufficient military is for foreign affairs purposes. China does invest a lot outside its borders especially in Africa. This African continent is a basket case, where everyone who has interests must make sure that they are protected at all costs. The colonialists did that. The west is doing that as well through neo-colonialism, and what makes others think that China a country that has had trade relationships with places like Africa way back before colonialism won’t do that.
For the start let’s realize that China is giving a lot of money to many African governments manned by dictators. Unlike the World Bank funds, this Chinese money comes here with no strings attached or very limited ones. I mean, china is a country that will give a person like Mugabe of Zimbabwe a ship full of arms even when it knows that these arms are meant to harass the very native Zimbabweans who are supposed to buy Chinese produce. In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, it’s known that most of the pangas and machetes that killed people came from China. If they were distributed by the Chinese government of individual industries that’s for the authorities concerned to detect.But the fact remains that they came from China.

So the biff about China from the western governments especially the Americans about its ambitious military escapades will not deter China from pursuing its goals. Weather its good or bad, that’s for me and the world to realize as time goes on. But with some simple facts and reasons as mentioned above, China will have to build a protective wall to guard against its interests both within and outside its boundaries. And that can only be achieved through military capability.
If the colonialists did not have strong and professional armies, Africa and other parts of the world would not have been easy for them to conquer.
God bless