From Phantom Report
''If Francis Dalton were alive today, he would be revelling in the I-told-you-so of the new millennium. Cousin and colleague of the better-known Charles Darwin, Dalton proposed in 1873 that Britain should proactively pursue a strategic geopolitical shift: “Africa for the Chinese“.
His idea was simple: Promote Chinese settlements in Africa so as to outbreed its indigenous inhabitants. In a few years, he suggested, the continent might “be tenanted by industrious, order-loving Chinese”, who possessed a “remarkable aptitude for a high material civilisation”, and a capacity to compete successfully with strangers in any environment.
Over a century later, the boom of China in Africa is proving to be one of the most striking developments of 21st century geopolitics. It is manifested not in the population demographics that Dalton originally envisioned, but in the macroeconomic spheres that shape global power dynamics today: Trade, aid and investment.''
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