She has also been a long-standing ally of Africa's, since the era of the Communist Party Chairperson, Chairman Mao Zedong.
For example, in a financially ground-breaking move, at that time, China gave an interest-free loan, of U.S. $500 million, to finance the construction of the Tazara railway line, from landlocked Zambia to the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, to give then-beleaguered Zambia, direct access to the sea, without depending on her racist neighbour, at the time, apartheid-era South Africa.
Today's COVID-era racism against Africans in China, can never be justified under any circumstances. And the Chinese authorities should not attempt to do so. They ought to make amends, directly to all those Africans, treated so appallingly by agents of Chinese officialdom - and to their home-countries' by empowering them, through debt forgivance: to stop their economies collapsing from the existential-need-for-lockdowns, to contain and defeat COVID-19. Now. Not tomorrow.
Thus, above all, to restore trust in her special relationship with Africa, China should write off all the monies loaned to the continent of Africa, by converting those loans to grants. Simple. That is the only way to show, by deed, nor words, remorse for the totally unacceptable victimisation of innocent people from a continent whose mineral resources have powered China's stunning economic transformation into the world's leading economy.
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