So i read an article by Austin Maho (PhD) about a piece in the opinion column of the Guardian by one Abdul Rafiu with the title “The Chinese are here” which was published on May 28, 2020
The piece needed to be responded too cause it was seriously misinforming the public
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Due to the advent of Coronavirus, there’s been an increase in sinophobia following the growing spat of misinformation about China and the Chinese which is fuelled mostly by Western-sponsored media propaganda. So many lies have been told to demonize China and what it stands for!

Just last week, there was a trending news about the Rwanda President, Paul Kagame personally signing an order to expelling 18 Chinese nationals from Rwanda!. The story turned to be false as the official handle of the Ministry of Foreign affiars discredited the news!!!! https://twitter.com/rwandamfa/status/1267777013575815169

Why then where people trending the news? To smear the face of China? To what end? Why fueling and creating the unnecessary fire of hate for China in the hearts of people?

In the article, Abdul Rafiu raised concerns over what he called the "influx of Chinese into Africa and into Nigeria"; their involvement in mining and acquisition of large expanse of land for large scale farming; the infrastructural loans and debt issues among others.

To begin with, if Abdul Rafiu is concerned about the influx of Chinese citizens into African countries, has he also taken time to examine the number of African citizens and Western-based corporation that are pouring into China as a result of China’s reforms and opening up?

Is Abdul Rafiu not equally unaware of the number of African businessmen especially Nigerians pouring into China especially cities like Shenzhen, Shanghai. Guangdong Beijing and a host of others.

He quoted Johns Hopkins as saying there are over 250 000 Chinese workers in the whole of Africa. Is he also aware that there have been more Africans pouring into China than Chinese pouring into African countries?

Is Rafui aware that in Guangdong alone there are over 200,000 Nigerians according to Information from the Chinese ministry of commerce? I am talking of just Nigerians, not including other African Nationalities.

They are in China unmolested, engaged in the export of manufactured goods and machinery to Nigeria. In the whole of Nigeria, there are less than 60000 Chinese citizens. The free movement of people, goods and ideas is a component of globalization.

There are black communities in China just as there is China town even in the US.
So what exactly is Abdul trying to Achieve? These facts are on the internet. Anyone who takes time to do adequate research wud have seen them. These are moves to alienate China #ChinaIsNotOurProblem