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*** 4-Mar-18 World View -- China pushes to invest heavily in Iraq's energy infrastructure

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Burkina Faso terror attack targets France's anti-terror Operation Barkhane
  • China pushes to invest heavily in Iraq's energy infrastructure
  • African Cédric Bakambu joins China's Sinobo Guoan Football Club

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**** Burkina Faso terror attack targets France's anti-terror Operation Barkhane
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Burkina Faso soldiers patrol the army's headquarters in Ouagadougou (AFP)

Eight soldiers died and 12 were seriously wounded on Friday by a major
terrorist attack in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, on
the army headquarters and the French embassy. Eight attackers were
also killed. Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa, and
one of the poorest countries in the world.

The al-Qaeda linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslim (JNIM, Group
for Support of Islam and Muslims) claimed responsibility for the
attack. JNIM was formed in 2017 by a merger of four Mali-based
al-Qaeda linked groups, including Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM), Al Murabitoon, and Katibat Macina (Macina Liberation
Front). These groups were responsible for a surge of hundreds of
al-Qaeda linked attacks in Africa's Sahel (the strip of Africa just
below the Sahara desert, separating the Arab north from Black Africa
to the south), including Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

Burkinabe president Roch Kabore urged the public to be calm on
Saturday: "In these difficult moments, I would like to reaffirm to
Africa and the entire world my unshakeable faith in the capacity of
the Burkinabe people to preserve their dignity and ferociously oppose
their enemies."

Although there were no French casualties, it's thought that
the attack was meant to target France's Operation Barkhane,
which ws launched in August 2014, and has been effective in
targeting al-Qaeda linked terror groups throughout the region.

Several extremist groups have also vowed to step up attacks on the
France-led "G5 Sahel" counter-terrorism force, led by France and
containing 5,000 troops from five Sahel nations -- Chad, Niger,
Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania.

However, not surprisingly, many people believe that the level of
terrorism is increasing in the region, despite the deployment of
these counter-terrorism forces. Radio France International and Deutsche Welle and Reuters and AP

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**** China pushes to invest heavily in Iraq's energy infrastructure
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China has been pushing to invest billions of dollars in Iraq's
energy infrastructure, especially Iraq's oil fields.

Iraq is strategically important to China's government, military, and
the "One Belt, One Road" grand strategy that supposedly will link
everything in Europe and Asia to China by 2050. Any relationship in
the Middle East is important to China also because of China's enormous
thirst for imported oil.

China is the world's biggest importer of oil. Any shortage of oil in
China could trigger a hard recession in China and lead to unrest.
Iraq represents a major opportunity to increase the flow of oil
imports.

In January, it emerged that China intended to construct an oil
refinery on the port of Fao on the Arabian Gulf with two Chinese
companies, Power China and Nerco Chinese. The refinery would have a
capacity to produce 300,000 barrels per day. Iraq has also just
awarded a control China-based Zhenhua Oil to further develop Iraq's
East Baghdad oilfield. Chinese state-owned enterprises are now the
biggest oil investors in Iraq, especially the modernization and
development of Iraq’s oil infrastructure.

Iraq's oil refining capacity was curtailed when the so-called Islamic
State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) overran much of northern Iraq in
2014. Iraq has been recovering, and is now OPEC’s second-largest oil
producer, after Saudi Arabia.

Ironically, both Iraq and Saudi Arabia are restricted in the amount of
oil that they can sell to China. The reason is that the OPEC
countries have agreed to production limits in order to keep the price
of oil from falling. Arab News
and Reuters and Xinhua

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**** African Cédric Bakambu joins China's Sinobo Guoan Football Club
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Televised introduction of Cédric Bakambu to Beijing's Sinobo Guoan Football (Soccer) Club (Al-Jazeera)

China's Sinobo Guoan Football (Soccer) Club has paid a reported amount
of $91 million to sign Cédric Bakambu, making Bakambu the most
expensive soccer player in African history. He was born in France,
but switched his allegiance to the Democratic Republic of Congo
in 2015.

The reason that I'm including this story is because of the startling
screen shot above, which was from Bakambu's televised introduction on
Chinese television. The screen shot shows eight people on the team,
with Bakambu in the middle in the fourth position. I don't know who
all these people are, but the people in positions #5 and #8 appear to
be European.

The others are all Chinese, and they're all doing everything possible
to avoid looking at the camera. The person in position #3 is holding
up two fingers to his eye which might mean that he's scratching an
itch around his eye, or it might mean that he's using his fingers to
express disdain in some way to the television audience.

This video was broadcast on al-Jazeera, and as I watched it I found it
really startling. China is known to have some extreme racism issues
with Africans, and this screen shot seems to put them on display.
BBC Sport



KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Roch Kabore,
Mali, Niger, France, Mauritania, Chad, G5 Sahel Force,
Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims,
JNIM, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslim, Ansaroul Islam,
Ansar Dine, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM,
Al Murabitoon, Katibat Macina, Macina Liberation Front,
China, Iraq, Fao, Saudi Arabia, OPEC, Power China, Nerco Chinese,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Cédric Bakambu, Sinobo Guoan Football Club,
Democratic Republic of Congo

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