Somalia signs onto China's "Belt and Road Initiative" ahead of Africa-China Summit in Beijing

[Faazzla]

All aboard the New Silk Roads..

 

[Hatredfree]

We can't even build our roads?

 

[Guts]

We can't even build our roads?

 

[Faazzla]

We can't even build our roads?

Chinese built a good amount of existing roads and infrastructure in the 1970s.

 

[Thegoodshepherd]

China is literally responsible for Somalia’s ENTIRE road network save for the Garowe-Bosaso road. We should be immensely grateful to the taxpayers of China who have given us the Mogadishu to Hargeisa road.

 

[Farm]

China is literally responsible for Somalia’s ENTIRE road network save for the Garowe-Bosaso road. We should be immensely grateful to the taxpayers of China who have given us the Mogadishu to Hargeisa road.

Why be grateful? It’s in the country’s large debt plus interest.

 

[Ras]

Building highways would employ hundreds of thousands directly and more importantly indirectly by acting as a seed for industry.

If you get others to build it for you then whose going to maintain it if there's no industry domestically?

Also that debt will siphon out the little foreign reserves we have.

If we build it ourselves then we could mine the limestone and gravel out of our grounds and pay the workers in our currency backed by our agriculture.

You can't expect others to build your infrastructure for you and still have a functioning economy at the end of it.

Farmaajo is just looking for a paycheck just like his other African peers in China ATM.

 

[Hatredfree]

 

[.279]

This is just to loot somalias natural ressources. China will now get all the contracts

 

[mustang22]

Good to see Somalia and China getting closer together, hopefully we join BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) soon as well and join up with the future superpowers.

 

[SomaliMVP]

And the looting begins.

 

[yaanyuur]

Building highways would employ hundreds of thousands directly and more importantly indirectly by acting as a seed for industry.

If you get others to build it for you then whose going to maintain it if there's no industry domestically?

Also that debt will siphon out the little foreign reserves we have.

If we build it ourselves then we could mine the limestone and gravel out of our grounds and pay the workers in our currency backed by our agriculture.

You can't expect others to build your infrastructure for you and still have a functioning economy at the end of it.

Farmaajo is just looking for a paycheck just like his other African peers in China ATM.

they will bring their own employees

 

[Yaquub]

And the looting begins.

Who are they gonna rob al shabaab?

 

[SilentE1001]

With this news, let's see if they do their due diligence...

Better hope this "gov" keeps up with its interest payments otherwise China takes full control to whatever they build.

 

[Faazzla]

they will bring their own employees

They did the same thing in the 1970s. Much of what they built is still standing.

We got Chinese guys walking around named Jamac married to Somali women around the diaspora.

 

[Ferrari]

I'd prefer a lobbying by China on our behalf to remove the damn arms embargo and gives weapon and tanks. forget these roads. we got bigger problems.

Let russia and china take our resources in return, give us access to tanks, jets, weapons and non negotiable guaranteed backing in the international stage.

we'd quickly get back our sovereignty this way.

 

[Xaax]

I like how the “cynics” are crying about how we will be looted, I’m sure roads and infrastructure will be drop from the sky.

 

[Xaax]

Continuing on.
The Belt and Road Initative will allow more infrastructure to be constructed and the fact that we are one of the first African nations to have been accepted into it shows that China holds us in a higher regard then Western countries do.
The phrase “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” is well-suited here.

 

[SomaliMVP]

Who are they gonna rob al shabaab?

They are coming for our natural resources. Don't be naive.

With ports being build all over Somalia the time is right for China to swoop in, build some roads and steal our natural resources. All in the name of development.

 

[Karim]

The Belt and Road initiative project is a farce and debt trap.Some countries involved already raised concerns about their ability to repay billions worth of loans from China. Sri Lanka gave up their main port couple months ago after they failed to repay loans from China. Greece too. It's risky.