{"id":3940,"date":"2005-07-30T10:04:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/07\/30\/mugabe-sells-bankrupt-zimbabwes-assets-to-china-rochelle-mutton\/"},"modified":"2005-07-30T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T17:04:30","slug":"mugabe-sells-bankrupt-zimbabwes-assets-to-china-rochelle-mutton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/07\/mugabe-sells-bankrupt-zimbabwes-assets-to-china-rochelle-mutton\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe sells bankrupt Zimbabwe’s assets to China – Rochelle Mutton"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nFrom theage.com.au<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n \n“We will never be a colony again!” This has been the catch-cry of Zimbabwe<\/a>‘s President Robert Mugabe<\/a> throughout his 25-year reign.<\/p>\n But while he rails against perceived imperialist, colonial agendas and denounces anything white-skinned or Western, Mr Mugabe has spent this week in China signing over his bankrupt country’s resources to the Asian economic superpower.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n \nAnalysts claim the Chinese are forging a “colonial extractive relationship” with Zimbabwe, which has sold forward more than a year’s worth of gold and tobacco production in exchange for Chinese military hardware and diplomatic support.<\/p>\n Zimbabwe is the world’s fastest shrinking economy and as it looks east for a saviour, China has a keen eye on the southern African nation’s rich platinum deposits.<\/p>\n During a six-day visit to China this week, Mr Mugabe, banned from Western countries including Australia, was warmly greeted by Chinese President Hu Jintao<\/a> as “an old friend” and given a professorship.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From theage.com.au: “We will never be a colony again!” This has been the catch-cry of Zimbabwe‘s President Robert Mugabe throughout his 25-year reign. But while he rails against perceived imperialist, colonial agendas and denounces anything white-skinned or Western, Mr Mugabe has spent this week in China signing over his bankrupt country’s resources to the Asian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,1051],"tags":[1666],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-top-article","tag-mugabe","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n