Africa's Trading Partner is China For a Reason

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Martin Luther King Jr.

You live in a nation that allocates a budget over a trillion dollars to its armed forces, an amount so immense it distorts the very pillars of your society and economy. The Congress and the executive approve a military budget larger than the next top eight countries that have the largest military budgets.

With $200 billion being expended annually solely to maintain 800 military bases across the globe, you watch bridges fall apart, water systems age and dirty drinking water, underfunded schools and classrooms are overcrowded, and hospitals are pinched.

These are the cost of opportunity of empire. The power to project throughout the globe is paid for at the unnoticeable from the common person the cost of your community's well-being. Each tax dollar used for foreign bases is a dollar that is not spent on your child's schooling, your aging parent's healthcare, or your neighborhood's infrastructure and businesses. The empire your taxes and your work construct with your money promises security, yet renders you more insecure with each passing year.

You're caught in a system that does not work for you but sells you. Arms industries like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon grow rich off the war machine, and politicians they lobby see your future as a political bargaining chip. With growing military presence across the globe comes the requirement for ongoing war, and along with it, a vicious cycle that demands more bases and more expenditure and more expenditure continues political control by the military-industrial complex.

Meanwhile, the worldwide shadow of American bases invites hatred, exposing your diplomats, merchants, and logistics to danger, as accelerating great powers such as China advance their own military buildup. You are guaranteed that this war economy is security, but it is a power rooted in decay, a nation devouring itself in order to stay atop.

Here's an example of China taking over the development of countries of the South. Meanwhile, USA is too busy with their war economy...

China's Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure development strategy to help developing nations and at the same time give China leverage to the raw materials within such countries.