History shows West as colonialist perpetrators
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ON May 3, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, responding to allegations of Chinese “neo-colonialism,” declared: “In its cooperation with Africa, China has always upheld the principles of equality, mutual benefit, real results, efficiency, sincerity and credibility and never attached any political strings to its assistance to Africa.”
On September 7, 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping made one of the first Chinese proposals with an international appeal: the construction of a new land and marine Silk Road aiming at reinforcing Euro-Afro-Asian cooperation. It was ignored by the West — the same West that is now trying to use China as a scapegoat in an attempt to conceal the continuation of its neo-colonialist enterprises, masked in recent years as humanitarian interventions.
By scrolling through the list of interventions of these last decades of the United Kingdom, France, the United States and NATO, it appears evident who today needs to protect their own interests using military force.
Calls are coming for the neo-colonialist West to stop using China — emerging peaceful world power — as a scapegoat and, on the other hand, apologize and pay reparations to the former colonies militarily occupied in recent centuries, including China.
The article is reprinted with permission from Colonialism Reparation. Calls for reparations are part of the movement for condemnation, reconciliation, apologies and compensation for colonialism. The idea was conceived in 2008 by a volunteer of the Italian association “Battito solidale” which, thanks to his frequent journeys to Guinea and Senegal, realized which disastrous impacts colonialism still imposed on the daily lives of billions of people.
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