» 尼日利亚行长：非洲人民必须放弃对中国的期待！！！(附带某大段评论)
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Africa must shake off its romantic view of China and accept Beijing is a competitor as much as a partner and capable of the same exploitative practices as the old colonial powers, Nigeria’s central bank governor has warned.
Reflecting the shifting views of a growing number of senior African officials who fear the continent’s anaemic industrial sector is being battered by cheap Chinese imports Lamido Sanusi cautions that Africa is “opening itself up to a new form of imperialism”.
“China takes from us primary goods and sells us manufactured ones. This was also the essence of colonialism,” he writes in the Financial Times. His remarks are among the most trenchant by a serving African official about the continent’s ties with the world’s second-largest economy.
Trade between China and Africa was worth more than $200bn in 2012, twenty times what it was in 2000 when Beijing committed to a policy of accelerated engagement. It has been a period of strong growth partly thanks to Asian demand for African resources. But a boom in commodities, services and consumer spending has coincided with the relative decline of African manufacturing from 12.8 to 10.5 per cent of regional GDP, according to UN figures.
African leaders and the African Development Bank have recently urged governments to work with each other to ensure they maximise benefits from relations with their leading trade partner, but they have traditionally cloaked their concerns in emollient diplomatese.
In contrast Mr Sanusi has thrown down the gauntlet to Beijing. “China is no longer a ‘fellow under-developed economy’,” he writes. “China is the second-biggest economy in the world, an economic giant capable of the same forms of exploitation as the west. China is a major contributor to the deindustrialisation of Africa and thus African underdevelopment.”
An experienced private sector banker, Mr Sanusi is credited with cleaning up Nigeria’s banking system after a crash that wiped out 60 per cent of bank capital in 2009. He has also given Nigeria’s central bank a more activist role. In his article, Mr Sanusi argues that African countries must respond to “predatory” trade practices such as subsidies and currency manipulation that give Chinese exports an advantage. He also says the continent must build infrastructure and invest in education. “Africa must seize the moment and move manufacturing of goods consumed in Africa out of China to the African continent … I cannot recommend a divorce. However, a review of the exploitative elements in this marital contract is long overdue.”
His comments come ahead of South Africa hosting a summit of Bric nations next week. South Africa, the largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa, was incorporated into the bloc of Brazil, Russia, India and China last year.
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma last week told western companies to stop warning against the embrace of China. “China is doing business in a particular way and we think we can see the benefits,” he told the Financial Times. “But we are very, very careful,” he added citing Africa’s experience of colonialism.
