Countries are "pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world," wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are the great game.
The al-Shabaab shopping mall killers came from Somalia. If any country is an imperial metaphor, it is Somalia. Sharing a common language and religion, Somalis have been divided between the British, French, Italians and Ethiopians. Tens of thousands of people have been handed from one power to another.
"When they are made to hate each other," wrote a British colonial official, "good governance is assured."
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The difference between US policy and Chinese policy toward Africa is stark. The United States will not accomplish anything "good" in Africa, unless you define neo-colonialism as "good".
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