Hey ChatGPT, Give Me Information About Chinese Loans in Africa

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China somehow managed to get the oil flowing between Niger and Benin this week amid a bitter dispute between the two West African countries that had briefly shut down the pipeline.
Eric, Cobus, and Geraud discuss how the Chinese seem to be navigating the Sahel's contentious politics with some finesse. Plus, ChatGPT launched a major new upgrade this week that they'll put to the test to hear how the AI frames the accusation that China engages in debt trap diplomacy in Africa.
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@patrickrealestate-8193 4 месяца назад

First time ever hearing Géraud calling out US hypocrisy. True journalism should be non bias and ought to have a balanced perspective.

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

Sorry, confused. Do you think that calling out hypocrisy is a good thing or a bad thing?

@kwalelalipimile3894 4 месяца назад

Simple measure, all the rights and privileges that YOU, your family and country enjoy are owed to every other person, family and nation. The value of a human life should be universal!!!

@patrickrealestate-8193 4 месяца назад

@@chinaglobalsouth It's commendable when a journalist highlights hypocrisy, whether it comes from China or the United States.

@patrickrealestate-8193 4 месяца назад

@@chinaglobalsouthIt's commendable when a journalist highlights hypocrisy, whether it comes from China or the United States.

@ryanswift5411 4 месяца назад

Yes, the US can prohibit the import of Chinese EV's in an attempt to protect their domestic EV industry. Other countries should take notice... African Countries in particular.

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you're saying. What does the blocking of imported Chinese EVs have to do with African countries, in particular? - Eric

@ryanswift5411 4 месяца назад

Rewatch the podcast and figure it out. 👍🏾

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

@@ryanswift5411 Uh... OK, whatever.

@skydragon23101979 4 месяца назад

Protectionism can only be done for the short term and it should be best done using subsidies, not bans or tariffs. Simple fact subsidies are limited so you know whether you are getting good results or you are supporting a zombie company.

@isee8423 4 месяца назад

Thank you, gentlemen, and I absolutely enjoyed your discussion. They are very informative. On the topic of solar panels, battery technology and electric vehicles I am wondering if there is a specific set of policies that are geared towards African countries or African Continental development. By that, I mean policies that take into consideration the unique circumstances of African social and economic realities. I'm particularly interested in how African countries will take advantage of Solar power generation and battery storage technology to try to solve the Electric power generation issues, especially for households. And also, what if the developed countries puts a future environmental clawback tax on these essential minerals?

@yliuos 4 месяца назад

ChatGPT's answer is clearly still very much biased, isn't it?

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

I wouldn’t say it’s “very biased” especially compared to what it was a year ago when it was clearly partisan. Today, they tried to inject a lot more nuance. What did you hear in the response that was biased? - Eric

@bentao3352 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

Thank you so much for your generous support. You have no idea have much it means to us. We really appreciate it! - Eric

@robertgullett3809 9 часов назад

If one belt and one road, china's infrastructure loans go into default; there have been mentioned reports that China's recourse structure is a 99-year lease and natural resources and what of time line kind of foreclosure? depending on the amount to help recoup losses, but I have not seen contracts and translation would need to verify. They loan us from China, building supplies, and workers, and does that skew the overall GDP for China.

@BeyondFunction1 4 месяца назад

If U.S. trade policy were motivated by a desire to protect blue collar jobs, they would never have outsourced so much manufacturing in the first place.

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

U.S. trade policy today is very different than it was during the Clinton administration when the outsourcing momentum really started to pick up. The politics are also very different today after so many of the industrial jobs were moved offshore which explains, in part, the rise of Trump and a wave of protectionist policies. It may be too late to get those jobs back but the politics of the moment, especially in an election year, demand that they at least appear they are trying to do something about - which explains the desire to protect the U.S. auto industry from low cost Chinese imports. - Eric

@BeyondFunction1 4 месяца назад

No, it's really not very different at all. Not insofar as workers are concerned. Notionally, they want to "reshore" and "friendshore" some unspecified portion of manufacturing that was off-shored to China, and this is purely a geopolitical play. They make some noises about "creating jobs" bla bla bla, but they will never come anywhere near to replacing the many millions of jobs that were intentionally destroyed. And they know full well that they won't because they have absolutely no intention of doing so. The "reshoring" they want to do is not reshoring of jobs, but reshoring of production. Production which will be done by AI robots. Obviously, this won't happen overnight, so for a few years, perhaps up to a decade, there will appear to be a trend of blue collar jobs making a comeback. And then the bottom will suddenly drop out.

@chinaglobalsouth 4 месяца назад

@@BeyondFunction1 Yeah, in that sense, I fully agree with everything you say. 100%. They're not going to do anything about it because the forces that fund their campaigns, namely Wall Street and the big industries that shipped those jobs overseas in the first place are not motivated to do so. My point was that the politics were a bit different back in 1994 when we suspected this might happen but it had happened yet and now we are in a situation where those communities have been gutted of all the decent paying industrial jobs which makes for fertile ground for politicization. - Eric