Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-04-22-Speech-2-461"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-04-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:China's policy and its effects on Africa (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080422.54.2-461"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-04-22-Speech-2-4622
lpv:speaker	lp:Konrad Szymański2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 member; UEN (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2007-09-05--2009-07-13)3,3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the report by Mrs Gomes presents all the most important aspects of the Chinese presence in Africa. There is only one inaccuracy – the Chinese presence in Africa has nothing to do with any development policy, let alone aid. Development policy here is no more than a tool for the implementation of China’s two general strategic aims. The first aim is to ensure supplies of raw materials using fairly brutal raw materials diplomacy. It is the rising Chinese demand for natural and power-generating raw materials that is turning Sudan, Angola and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa into countries of such significance. The second, and no less important, aim of the Chinese Government is to consolidate the world’s authoritarian pole as a counterbalance to the liberal-democratic models of the West. Hence the violation of even a UN embargo on trade in arms with Darfur, Liberia and Congo. Hence the political bonds between Beijing and Sudan, Chad, Zimbabwe and Somalia. The exclusion from aid cooperation of countries that recognise Taiwan is a further symptom of the primacy of a particularist strategy over development policy. Today we have to concede that Europe is powerless in this situation. Of course we can follow up the Commissioner’s appeals and bin the OECD’s principles as regards corruption and public finances, and then we can do the same with other international understandings. Finally, we can even bin the United Nations Charter, but in that case we shall cease to know what our role in world politics is based on, and in what way we differ from other players in world politics."@en1

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