tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post3834431370848700832..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Meet The New Boss ...Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-81353924546512116652010-10-20T10:51:42.166+00:002010-10-20T10:51:42.166+00:00Wikipedia is predictably droll on the Ludlow Massa...Wikipedia is predictably droll on the Ludlow Massacre. "In response, the miners armed themselves ..": yeah, yeah.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-77468392217820090952010-10-20T07:36:06.226+00:002010-10-20T07:36:06.226+00:00In all possible fairness, it's not like they c...In all possible fairness, it's not like they could call an industrial meeting, with representatives from trade unions, the government, the management, the local community and other stakeholders in Zambia, could they? Do they even have any of those?alex zekanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-18942528412458654472010-10-20T06:59:19.113+00:002010-10-20T06:59:19.113+00:00Incidentally, I wonder what Andy Newman will have ...Incidentally, I wonder what Andy Newman will have to say about this. Probably nothing unless he can think of a way of blaming it on the British legacy.Edwin Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03639193560457674072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-52925086957447918922010-10-20T00:38:12.561+00:002010-10-20T00:38:12.561+00:00But why did the managers have to do anything?
No s...But why did the managers have to do anything?<br />No security?<br />The local police are not kept friendly?<br />Anyway I hope you note that racism is working rather well for quite a few groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-76290789632581443602010-10-19T21:44:30.012+00:002010-10-19T21:44:30.012+00:00Not entirely unexpected. Assorted Spokes-Africans...Not entirely unexpected. Assorted Spokes-Africans have been busily spinning Chinese involvement in Africa as some sort of meeting of equals, so unlike those damned superior colonialist Europeans. <br /><br />And of course their local kleptocracies have been well happy with the "no strings attached" bungs, so unlike the moralizing attitudes adopted, if only superficially, by the post-colonial West.<br /><br />In reality the Chinese are both entirely cynical and deeply racist. And while they regard us <i>gwei lo</i> as inferior, they see Africans as subhuman. I expect the arrested Chinese managers are genuinely wondering what all the fuss is about.<br /><br />Old European proverb say, he who treat with a Chinaman should use a damned long scruting pole.Edwin Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03639193560457674072noreply@blogger.com