Wednesday, July 8, 2015

US Bombers Quit Guam

22-7-20 Хina Wants to Attack Guam in the Pacific - Uncensored > .
2022 90% Of Foreign Military Bases Are American - AJ+ > .

US Bombers Quit Guam ..

In planning an invasion of Taiwan, Xina needs to make sure that it doesn't face resistance from Guam, the closes US territory to Taiwan in the Pacific. Home to some 170,000 US troops and several military bases, Guam represents a real threat any XiXiP attack of Taiwan.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

● Geopolitics: Africa ◊


2021 Africa ..
Africa's Challenging Geography ..
African Aquapolitics ..
African Monsters ..
Algeria vs Morocco ..
Apartheid ..
Chokepoints - Suez Canal ..

Monday, June 29, 2015

2021 Africa

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24-3-25 Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso to form a confederation - Caspian > .

On January 1, 2021, African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area. The African Continental Free Trade Area aims to bring together 1.3 billion people in a $3.4 trillion economic bloc that will be the largest free trade area since the establishment of the World Trade Organization.

Every African country except Eritrea has signed on to the free trade area framework agreement, and 34 have already ratified it. Although such an action could be interpreted as a continuation of globalization, it may take decades before African countries create a single market, common currency, as well as common fiscal and monetary policies.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Algeria vs Morocco

21-9-14 Algeria & Morocco: World's Most Self-Destructive Rivalry - Caspian Report > .

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa. Western Sahara is located on the north-west coast in West Africa and on the cusp of North Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean to the northwest, Morocco proper to the north-northeast, Algeria to the east-northeast, and Mauritania to the east and south. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres (105,000 sq mi). Approximately 30% of the territory (82,500 km2 (31,900 sq mi)) is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); the remaining 70% is occupied and administered by neighboring Morocco. It is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa and the second most sparsely populated territory in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. The population is estimated at 618,600. Nearly 40% of that population lives in Morocco-controlled Laayoune, the largest city of Western Sahara.

Apartheid

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22-12-28 Too many people? Challenges of demographic change | DW > .

Centuries of division built one of the most unequal countries on earth. For decades, South Africa was under apartheid: a series of laws that divided people by race. Then, in the 1990s, those laws were dismantled. But many of the barriers they created continue to divide South Africans by skin color - which in turn determines their quality of life, access to jobs, and wealth. Racial division was built into the fabric of cities throughout South Africa, and it still hasn't been uprooted.

That's partly because, while apartheid was the culmination of South Africa's racial divisions, it wasn't the beginning of them. That story starts closer to the 1800s, when the British built a network of railroads that transformed the region's economy into one that excluded most Black people -- and then made that exclusion the law.

The railroads and how they impacted Cape Colony’s economy, paper by Johan Fourie and Alonso Herranz Loncan:
https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article... .
​ Segregation in South Africa’s major urban centers - segregation and inequality:
https://www.seri-sa.org/images/SERI_E... .
​ Post-Apartheid cities, paper by Edgar Pieterse (featured in the video):
https://www.africancentreforcities.ne...​ .
History and legacy of District Six, District Six Museum website:
https://www.districtsix.co.za/ .

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