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[Tog Wajale E.R.]

There Is A Concocted Plans By C.I.A. And M.I.6 Using The Dedebit Woorgach Agga*me Tigrayian Erkhusan Zerr Ethiopian Airlines C.E.O ☆ Tewolde G/ Mariam & New Defense Minister Abraha Belay ☆
To Assassinate Both Presidents Whilst Flying Ethiopian Airlines Or Helicopters.
I Am Just Worried To Our Dear Gandhi Of Africa H.E. President Esias Afewerki His Final Ending Retirement. This Is From Inside Ahmed Abiyot Administration & C.I.A. Collected Hidden Agenda Informations. They Will Try Using High Altitude Drones To Disable The President Planes Or Helicopters Flying In Addis Ababa So They Can Have Fatal Crashes.

[Zmeselo]

Believe me, all this bs & crockodile tears for the lemagn zer would immediately dissapear, if Eritrea would agree with the US for a military base in its Red Sea territory.

FEATURES | DIPLOMACY
Through Eritrea, China Quietly Makes Inroads Near the Red Sea

China is finding an eager partner in Eritrea, an autocratic state generally overlooked entirely by world powers.

By Austin Bodetti

https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/through ... e-red-sea/

January 25, 2020


Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed, left, gestures to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi before a meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, May 6, 2019. Credit: Thomas Peter/Pool Photo via AP

As Iran continues to dominate headlines across the Western world, China’s far quieter quest to influence Africa and Asia has escaped the news media’s attention of late. The many examples of this Chinese strategy include the world power’s relationship with Eritrea, a country on the Horn of Africa that rarely features in geopolitical discussions. Nonetheless, officials in Beijing intend to turn what some analysts still label “Africa’s North Korea” https://www.economist.com/the-economist ... orth-korea into a centerpiece of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s costly economic megaproject inspired by the Silk Road.

In May 2019, Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing to laud what Eritrean officials dubbed https://www.africanews.com/2019/05/08/e ... relations/

a healthy and strong partnership for the benefit of their two peoples.

Just five months later, Chinese Ambassador to Eritrea Yang Zigang said http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-1 ... 471513.htm in an interview with Eritrea’s state-owned media that

China has consistently supported Eritrea’s nation-building endeavors by providing Eritrea with many kinds of assistance.

The months of diplomatic niceties between China and Eritrea preceded a much more substantive development barely noticed by Western news agencies. In early November, the China Shanghai Corporation for Foreign Economic and Technological Cooperation — known as “China SFECO Group” — began building http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-1 ... 552629.htm a 134-kilometer road in coordination with ranking Eritrean officials, an initiative heralded by Yang. He has displayed a keen interest in Eritrean infrastructure, noting http://er.chineseembassy.org/eng/dsxx/dszc/ on the embassy webpage,

Eritrea is endowed with two great natural harbors, Massawa and Assab.

Eritrea has long expressed its enthusiasm for the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s bid to expand its sphere of influence by investing in countries across the Global South. A representative from Eritrea’s ruling party travelled https://allafrica.com/stories/201705170226.html to Beijing’s Belt and Road Forum in 2017. The Eritrean Information Ministry, meanwhile, praised China’s effort in 2019, calling http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-0 ... 215684.htm it a step toward

open, inclusive, and balanced regional economic cooperation and integration of markets.

At first glance, a little-known one-party state with an ailing economy would seem an odd choice for Chinese investment. Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has only succeeded at turning his country into a pariah state during 27 years of brutal rule, and the World Bank Group considers https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/eritrea/overview Eritrea

one of the least developed countries in the world.

Even so, Chinese President Xi Jinping likely sees his investment in Afwerki’s regime as an opportunity to secure an ally on the Red Sea.

Chinese tacticians have been eyeing the strategic region for some time. In early 2016, China concluded https://web.archive.org/web/20170518023 ... n-djibouti a deal with Djibouti, one of Eritrea’s neighbors on the Red Sea, to construct a military base – China’s first overseas military facility. The much-discussed Chinese outpost, which itself borders https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/worl ... -base.html a similar American facility, became https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/chinas- ... ar-update/ operational a year later. China has deployed soldiers throughout East Africa, even sending https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/how-chi ... udans-oil/ peacekeepers to secure Chinese-staffed oil wells in South Sudan.

Chinese-Eritrean relations appear focused on economics for the time being, but the possibility of militarization looms on the horizon. China and Eritrea cooperate in a variety of sectors, including energy https://www.tesfanews.net/china-eritrea ... ploration/ and public health. https://www.afro.who.int/news/who-eritr ... on-meeting

The East Asian world power has a long history with its East African partner, arming https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/file ... d_wrts.pdf Eritrea not only during its 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia but also during its second war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s. In more recent years, China has offered https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diploma ... der-row-it to mediate territorial disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia, a sign of China’s wider ambitions.

In Africa and Eritrea in particular, China’s distinct foreign policy has given it a critical advantage over its Western rivals. Xi is more than willing to ignore Afwerki’s well-known abuses of human rights, such as conscripting https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/08/08/t ... -restricts tens of thousands of Eritreans and forcing them into what the United Nations terms “slave-like” labor. Though Eritrea has https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... nt_er.html a population of just 6 million, only Syrian applicants for asylum outnumber https://helprefugees.org/news/why-are-s ... g-eritrea/ Eritreans in Europe. Fifty thousand live https://eritreanrefugees.org/refugee-stats/ in Germany alone.

While some Western countries have tried to engage with Eritrea in the last few years, they have faced backlash. European officials suffered significant embarrassment when The New York Times revealed https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/worl ... ea-eu.html that an Eritrean project funded by the European Union and facilitated by the UN relied on the labor of conscripts. Many European countries view Eritrea as a source of mass migration and a key front in their bid to stop it. Unlike China, which Afwerki has tried to court http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2009market/eritrea.pdf through his emphasis on Eritrea’s “strategic location,” Europe seems to have few long-term goals there.

The United States, China’s main rival in Africa, has indicated little interest in Eritrea. The State Department has admitted https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-eritrea/ that

[t]ensions related to the ongoing government detention of political dissidents and others, the closure of the independent press, limits on civil liberties, and reports of human rights abuses contributed to decades of strained U.S.–Eritrean relations.

As long as China keeps overlooking Eritrea’s dismal record on human rights, the two countries’ relationship seems likely to blossom. Despite a remarkable increase in goodwill toward the East African autocracy following https://qz.com/africa/1662277/the-ethio ... is-fading/ Eritrea’s conclusion of a peace treaty with its longtime adversaries in Ethiopia, Afwerki has few friends in the international community. For its part, China has long stated https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1M70OW its reluctance to interfere with or even comment on other countries’ internal affairs. That position has endeared Beijing to autocrats around the world.

For now, China only has one opponent in the race to establish a sphere of influence in Eritrea: the United Arab Emirates. The UAE operates https://www.tesfanews.net/analysis-uae- ... b-eritrea/ an air base and a military port in the East African country in addition to its military base in Somalia. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... en-by-june

In a sign of China’s growing reach, however, the UAE is participating https://www.brunswickgroup.com/uae-chin ... ve-i11922/ in the Belt and Road Initiative. Considering that China’s ambassador to the Middle Eastern regional power vaunted https://gulfnews.com/uae/china-uae-rela ... 3545215820 their relationship as “at its best period in history” in 2019, the prospect of a confrontation between the two countries over Eritrea seems dim.

SFECO Group’s project in Eritrea marks a new level of cooperation with China. As American and European officials turn their attention to the Middle East, China’s staying power in the Horn of Africa is growing. The Chinese presence in Djibouti sparked alarm across the West. In Eritrea, though, China is reaping the benefits of other world powers’ lack of interest in a rogue state. Unlike its Western counterparts, China has its sights set on the Red Sea.


Austin Bodetti studies the intersection of Islam, culture, and politics in Africa and Asia. He has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia, Indonesia, Iraq, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Oman, South Sudan, Thailand, and Uganda. His writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, USA Today, Vox, and Wired.

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[Zmeselo]

In dealing with US imperialism, the more frightened of it you are, the more it will bully you. You need to state that you are not afraid of it, and then it will instead have to think things over.

- Zhou Enlai, 1963


Not only that, but it can even leave billions of dollars worth of its weapons in your hands. Ask, the "ragtag" militia army of the taliban.




Just continue & finish the job ASAP, Ethiopia!

[Zmeselo]

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[Abaymado]

Top mujale strange guy!

all you know :

shettam bisbbbbis agame

ligagame pente abiyot

ባንተ ቤት ኣለቅልቀህ ሞተሃል

[Abe Abraham]

ብዙሓት ሰባት ገለ ምስሕሓብን ኣንጻርነትን ክላዓል እንከሎ ናይ ግድን ገለ ኣገዳሲ ምኽንያት ከም ዘሎ ይመስሎም ። ምኽንያት ክህሉ ይኽእል እዩ ግን ኩሉ ግዜ ናይ ግድን ኣይኮነን ።

1_ንኣብነት ስለምንታይ ኣሜሪካ ምስ ቻይና ኣብ ጅቡቲ ተጓራቢታ እንከላ ቻይና ምስ ኤርትራ ብመጠኑ ትታሓባበር ኣላ ኢላ ከብዳ ትቕረጽ ?

2_ስለምንታይ ኣብ ከባቢና ዘለዋ ሃገራት ብምስርን ሱዳንን ምስ እስራኤል ዘለወን ርክክብ ብዙሕ ከይተገደሳ ምስ ኤርትራ ብምትእስሳር ብዛዕባ ህላወ እስራኤል ኣብ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ብትሒም-ትሒም ይዛረባ ?

3_ስለምንታይ ኣብ ከባቢና ዘለዋ ሃገራት ንህላወ መዓስከራት ናይ ወጻኢ ሓይልታት ኣብ ጅቡቲ ኣብ ኣጀንዳአን ዘየእትዋኦን ኣብ ጋዜጣታተን በብግዜኡ ዘየድህባሉን ?

4_ኢማራት ምስ ምዕራባውያን ሃገራት ኣዝዩ ድልዱል ምትእስሳር እንከለዋ ምዕራባውያን ናይ ሜድያ ትካላት ብዛዕባ ምሕዝነት ኤርትራን ኢማራትን ክጽሕፉን ክዛረቡን እንከለዉ ሓርኢ ከም ዝወጠጦም ዝኾኑ ?

ከም'ዚ ኢሉ ጽባሕ ንግሆ ኣሜሪካ ባዕላ ኣብ ባሕሪ ኤርትራ ወተሃደራዊ መደበራ እንተ ትተክል ኤርትራውያን ንኣሜሪካ ናብ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ኣምጺኦምልና ዝዓይነቱ ሃተፍ-ተፍ ከም ዝስማዕ ንጽበዮ ነገር እዩ ። እዚ እንታይ ንምባል ማለት እዩ ? እቲ ጉዳይ " irrational " ሸነኽ ከም ዘለዎ ንምብራህ እዩ ።

[Tog Wajale E.R.]