Comments on: Africa: what China wants from Africa http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/25/africa-what-china-wants-from-africa/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:54:38 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michel http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/25/africa-what-china-wants-from-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-401467 Michel Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:57:16 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/25/africa-what-china-wants-from-africa/#comment-401467 Surplus population ? China can feed itself, and its population will start shrinking in the coming decades thanks to the ill-thought-of one-child policy. The creation of the overseas Chinese diaspora has never been an official government policy. Emigrations are triggered by famines (just like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Potato_Famine" rel="nofollow">potato famine</a> set off the Irish migration to the US) or, more regularly, by trade or employment opportunities. Surplus population ? China can feed itself, and its population will start shrinking in the coming decades thanks to the ill-thought-of one-child policy.

The creation of the overseas Chinese diaspora has never been an official government policy. Emigrations are triggered by famines (just like the potato famine set off the Irish migration to the US) or, more regularly, by trade or employment opportunities.

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