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China's support to either Ethiopia or any other African state is totally based on mutual benefit and with out compromising the interest and sovereignity of these states. This makes China “generous” and “dependable”. This time china is the leading economic 'region' in the world that makes her the best country to rely on for trade and economic cooperation. By the way the strong relationship between Chinese Communist Party and EPRDF was there for longer period of time. Officials of the CCP have been attending the previous conferences of EPRDF too. There's nothing new in this regard. The weired thing now is the P.M of Ethiopia has officially started blaming the 'neoliberals' and appreciating China and its communist party leadership. This is really unexpected from an African leader who receives millions of Dollars development aid from the advocators of the so callled Neo-liberalism. Having this situation, can we tell some thing about the prime miister's confidence and the future of Ethiopia ?

Can we close this chapter of Birtukan Mideksa? perhaps we should leave this topic to Meles hater Al. when was the last time Al visited Ethiopia ? I am really surprise how much time AL have to write his garbage opinion.

Is this not meles in his typical flip flopping style? The same magazine (the economist ) wrote years back that the tplf dissidents (seye and others) detested the concept of neo liberalism and free market which brought them in to conflict with Meles. We are here condemened to witness meles's acrobat of flip floping as long as this bullshit called EPRDF is at the center of ethiopian politics.

Western media is confused. They do not know what they are talking about. What do you make of an article like this? The economist wrote this not because they care about democracy in Ethiopia, but because they resent China.

Just look the bright side of the CHINA. They are building the entire African countries but NOT creating caose like western donners or govt. do. The weste financialy and militarly help to distablize any african country from developing. They give you food and they arm your enemies as the same time but china ,they build and at the same time they take what they paid for without any conflict or cheating.
NOW is time to say to western donners to get real or get out of Africa.

People elected Birtukan is forced to read the tigrian government bulshit. But the tigrian government leadrs will read their appology written by themselves soon. A good example the shabis who come as refugees to Ethiopia and the one who bagged to stay in Ethiopia while tplf throw many thousands shabis one by one. If you only see the shabies who live in Ethiopia. Anyways with our peace full struggel we keep our country pride and unite.

The Economist is just one of those cheap online megazines. Anybody can write their opinions. The fact that we don't see a name of a contributer says it all. It could have been submited by one of Ethiopia's foes, the main suspect, Berhanu nega. What do we expect from Ethiopia's enemys? Other than negatives on everything. If you read the whole comment, you see someone angry with the release of BM. Someone angry of the day to day developmental progress in Ethiopia. Someone envy of our PM Meles Zenawi. Most of all the writer reference of Ethiopia geting "a free food" from EU, makes the writer immature and only he is out there to discredit everything obout Ethiopia.

'He now faces little opposition either inside or outside the party.' ???
The neo-colonial regime of EPRDF which uses threats and lures to secure fraudulant votes, has an ever increasing opposition outside the party, namely the vast majority of the Ethiopian people.
"Those personalities who believe in freeing a country by secession are selfish and prey to outsiders. We will not accept their motives." Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, page 426
Long Live the Constitutional Monarchy!
Long Live the Kebra Negast!
Long Live the Fetha Negast!
Long Live the Charter of the United Nations!
Fire burn down the witchcraft star of secession
Rise with the Lion of Judah!
Long Live Independent Ethiopia!

If the millions of dollars foreign investors are raking in Ethiopia continues to be exported out of the country and there's no money left to be circulated in the country's economy, there's no money at the top that could trickle down to the bottom to create what economists call a "multiplier effect." And sadly, the millions of dollars exported out of the country is added on to Ethiopia's GDP to give the illusion of an "economic growth" when the opposite is true, or like the R&B Star Jay Z says, "... what you eat don't make me sh*t !.."

Another sad thing is that there are some Ethiopians who are mislead into seeing the construction of World Bank funded high rise buildings in the capital as a sign of "economic growth", totally oblivious to the repercussions of World Bank's economic policies that produce new debt for Ethiopians. Nowhere is this more vividly demonstrated than in the Philippines when the World Bank and IMF's economic policies constructed hundreds of high rise buildings, power plants, sweat shops, etc.... during the 1980's, and the people of Philippines thought they were seeing "economic growth" and many of them we misled to support the brutal dictatorship of the notorious Ferdinand Marcos.

20 years later and Ferdinand Marcos overthrown, the Philippines spend almost half of its national budget paying just the interest on debt owed to the World Bank, compared with just 3% for health care services for its citizens. As a result of the World Bank and IMF's economic policies millions of people in the Philippines lost their jobs, and that means millions of children are living in the streets.

Does that sound familiar ?

Half a million homeless children are currently living in the streets of Addis Ababa.... and the lucky ones may get to sleep on sidewalks adjacent to the newly built high rise buildings and dream of better days ahead that will never come, and the unlucky ones ... they sleep in sewers.

So much for an "economic growth" bull crap !

"Mr Meles’s ambitious plans to pep up his country of 85m people do not include a stock exchange. Enterprise, skills, and connectivity are years behind neighbouring Kenya. But Mr Meles is shrewd. He hopes Ethiopia’s massive trade deficit will narrow as his country’s new factories export goods under preferential trade terms. Last year exports to China rose by 140%."

If the Economist is labeling him as "shrewd" for what they have stated, I unfortunately have to disagree with them. I don’t dam care if it is the Chinese or for that matter the Americans or Europeans that want to put their cash available and do business. What have the westerners provided for that country or continent? Considering the time they have been around they just haven’t done any good, they've sold us for God's sake. If he is “shrewd” enough to have the roads and the dams built, LET IT BE!

The colour of change always can't lead to good morning frukost for Woyane gang ,but for the people of Tigria will be the hunger years 2015.China can't feed to all and the people of Ethiopia will be the frist victim.

Reading what the once respected newspaper, The Economist, has written about Ethiopia,one notes a a precis of all possible criminal allegations in one go. Please correct me if I am mistaken but I may have not heard or read when Prime Minister Meles is alleged to have said"Ms Mideksa had beggged for a pardon after only a 'few weeks' in prison" in a speech he made in New York. The newspaper continues, ""as a final humiliation, the government FORCED(my emphasis) Ms Mideksa as a condition of her release to apologise in writing for "deceiving" the Ethiopian people"". How did the Economist witness when the government forced Birtukan Mideksa to write the letter of apology?? Where is the journalistic ethics and perfection to present to its readers a fair and balanced report??
Leaving that for readers to make their own judgements, I am dumbfounded to read what The Economist writes on the relation between the Republic of China and Ethiopia! Is China not the biggest trade partner with the United States of America?? Why should Ethiopia's inclination for trade and economic relations with the second biggest economy in the world be questioned? Should it be the business of The Economist to decide what the Ethiopian government should and should not do?? When Egypt's ailing ruler(82 years old) president who has ruled his country for over 30 years,is receiving annualy the biggest financial support from the US, no eye brows are raised. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia whose human rights record are horrid, is currently signing billions of dollars worth bilateral trade agreement with the US. Where are Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International,The Economist etc etc? Gone are the days of hegemony and patronization as Africa is emancipating herself from years of exploitation and abuse which The Economist should respect and recongnize.

Ethiopia shall prosper!!

The West can take their aid and shove it you all know where.

The West better stop acting like a SCHOOL MASTER as Sarkozy stated it. If the West isnt enjoying the stability the region is enjoying then they can call it quites in Ethiopia...and the Horn of Africa for that matter.
They can take all their NGOs and their goons out of Africa. We Africans can slug it out with poverty on our own.

Stop your barbage...The Chinese atleast dont degrade or strip of African's dignity.

Never in our History we Ethiopians never flinched for western propaganda and pressure.

Ethiopia wont surrender its MEDAIA AND FINANCIAL sectors, ...in the name of diluted western democracy and neo-liberalism...no matter the pressure.

While the west keeps barking with its unfounded allegations...
Ethiopian gov't should work faster towards the intended development goal to get NGOs out of Ethiopia as soon as possible.
It should be a priority of the gov't to effectively cut their leverage and increase our own over their intrests.

rubbish

please talk about the economy and no Mideksa. It's over and we don't want to hear about her.

China appeals to Meles because it is a one-party state and its rulers do not care about civil rights and civil liberties. That is why. Meles and his tribal gang had always been China-worshipers. Go read their old manifestos which are in fact "childish" and "Chinese." Meles is not changing any side. He is simply unmasking himself.

I hope Meles succeeds to jumpstart the economy that is more oriented on exporting industrial commodities. Meles could be the new Stalin in Ethiopia. However unlike Stalin, Meles succumbed to the wishes neocolonialists and Arab expansionists.

The political situation in Ethiopia is vey confusing. had there been a clear political environment, every body would support Zenawi.

Kena K [Visitor]

"Is China not the biggest trade partner with the United States of America??"

No China is not the biggest trading pal for the US. Canada occupies the leading position followed by China, Mexico, Japan etc.

That said, I am really amazed by your diligence working 24/7 on nazret.com blabbering everything on this cite in defense of the minority despotic government in Ethiopia. Money matters. They pay you generously for sitting in the West or in Ethiopia and writing all this garbage to put a lipstick on a pig, which by the way will remain a pig for ever.

FYI, the US is helping China by buying Chinese goods, strengthening China's economy and keeping more Chinese employed in the export sector. If the US refuse to import goods from China, millions of Chinese workers will lose their jobs and the CCP will face difficult problems as a result of the esuing social and economic disruption. So there is disproportionate benefits accruing to China than to the US from the current trade arrangement. If the US abandons Chinese imports and resort to reviving its dying manufacturing sector, millions of jobs would be created in America.

But then I do not know why you mention US-China trade relations, which is purely economic, to justify the CCP-WOyane bond, which has been based on political calculations--a club of despotic regimes. The US is known for its severe criticism of China's human rights records as it keeps importing its goods from this country. The US also, though lightly, criticizes the Woyane government for lack of freedom of speech, the absence of political plurality, etc in Ethiopia. But the Chinese rulers are beasts, wild beasts, and they have no any concern whatsoever regarding human rights and the rule of law in their country or elsewhere in the world. Their focus is primarily on the exploitation of cheap raw materials and getting markets for their sweatshop goods produced using slave Chinese labour. Their motto is "we do not ask questions!" in their business and investment dealings with African despots. China does not always hesitate to use its veto power at the UN Security Council to cripple any effort at imposing sanctions on the barbaric Arab govenment in Sudan, which has been brutally massacring over 3 million indigenous Africans at will. Think about it. What if the Darfurians were related to you by blood or ethnic ties? I do not know which ethnic group you come from but I can make an educated guess that you are more likely to hail form Tigre as 99% of the devout supporters of the minority rgime are from that ethnic group.

mesfin [Visitor]

good comment

addis zemen [Visitor]

as a matter of internal policy the Economist does not reveal the names of its contributors on highly sensitive issues such as thrid world politics. But that does not mean that some of its bold reporters choose to remain in the closet. if you are a regular ubscriber to this magazine i hope you understand what i mean.

Tenagare [Visitor]

"What have the westerners provided for that country or continent?"

The Westerners have given Ethiopia more than 30 billion dollars to the minority ethnic junta in Ethiopia since it came to power in 1991. Nothing to show for it...They have also injected around a trillion dollar in humanitarian and economic assistance to Africa. Blame your masters who steal this money and stash it away in secret bank accounts in Europe and Asia.

@c'moi senait: "They 'The Chinese' are building the entire African countries but NOT creating caose like western donners or govt. do." You pointed out the good point. Africans are now know who to choose their economy partner. Make no mistake about it... China is the best. Since China has started investment in Africa, chaos and conflicts are reducing through out the continent. Infact, African leaders chose this year the end of war and conflict among brothers. I recalled, AU had celebrated world peace day in Addis last month. This is a good move for Af...

@Freeman: "The economist wrote this not because they care about democracy in Ethiopia, but because they resent China." The so called economist mag... has to write any scratches they can find. It's nothing to do to resent China or democracy and growth in Ethiopia. It's only about selling their crippled mag... Can't you understand how they are frustrated with the economy decline in the U.S. If they can't find something to write... after all the magazine is on the verge of collapse. Sooner or letter you will never hear or read any report from the economist.

Birtukan/china/the west/ Ethiopian Government
Leave Birtukan out of this.
Your main game is to stop china's investment in Ethiopia and Africa. We need to wake up ppl. and care about our benefits as same as The Economist cares for the Westerners.

China support it's not given without conditions .They bring the assistance on the contrary they take the whole raw materials.Once again the TPLF bandits are creating not only political cahos but another economic crisis .Wonder what kind of raw materials do they propose to deal with China.

As far as Ethiopia is benefitted, we can have friendship with every one East, West, South, and north.

Long Live For Meles.

i went to Ethiopia for holyday and it was the most sad expreaince i've ever felt in my life. all i want to say to you guys just go back to your country and help your people. too much Talk is not good.

I really don't understand how some western's thinking .

he wrote:
"THE release of Ethiopia’s best-known political prisoner, Birtukan Mideksa, seems to have been calculated to distract attention from a reshuffle of the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has replaced several long-serving ministers with younger men."

when you stay in power, you call you dictator. when you transfer power, they also find something to call and accuse you. this shows that It is not about Ethiopia and something else, it is about them. As long as it is not for their benefit, they reject everything including the best thing to that particular nation. What this garbage writer hates is that Ethiopia being looking towards any nation benefits her rather that towards them as usual to remain weak and under their feet.

What happened in Ethiopia which is transferring power from old generation to the younger and from those not doing much to those doing the best is the highest achievement not only to Ethiopia but also the whole of Africa. yet, those trying to cheat Africa in the name of democracy don't like it. I really cannot believe it some of them behaving this way. Are they getting mad and bad unable to control their normal being becoming unable to behave normally.

it is not about us. It is about them. Anything associating with china is becoming their enemy. Sorry man. you had your time and it is shifting since 9/11 and we didn't do that.

Ethiopians love, respect, trust and admire china.

These two nations have more than amore than 2000 years relationship back from the Axumite era. That time: the Abyssinians, India , china and Ferisawian /Iran were ruling the world. China never invade, occupy, enslave or colonize any nation as Ethiopia never did.

They are very proud and trust worthy people. they have no the tendency of colonizing, cheating or undermining other people in national level. Ethiopians do like china and the two nations will have very long, strong, warm and trustworthy relationship years to come.
We will never forget what china has done and is doing to Ethiopia. we respect, appreciate and love them knowing they are the people to be trusted having relationship with win -win outcome.

And they are showing it in practice with building the nation without interfering against the nation internal matters. They are not bulling or playing superiority approaches towards us because of they are doing something for us. When the eminent good Ethiopian time comes, we will pay them back everything they are doing for us with interest, love and respect when we reach to our goal.

China also know the Ethiopian people nature which are pride, history, values ,norms and the likes. Ethiopians are respectful, trustworthy and never forget who was/is their friend in a bad time and their enemy, too. China is the leading friend Ethiopia has and will remain no matter what others are barking to stop it.
Relationship with china is development, prosperity and future. No single Ethiopia will even think to be late from it rather than being the first to work hard for it in order to have the best relation with china.

Again: what china must understand is that no matter what, Ethiopians will never forget what they are doing for us during the time we needed genuine friends and allies without playing games to affect us in different ways. China will be part of the Ethiopian history for generations to come.

Addis " yewoyanne" Zemen,
Turinafa, master tultula,

Looking East is good as the relation with the west was/is a master-slave relation, in which the west is more comfortable with their short "master history", than a people-to-people contact and faithful relation. The west wants Africans to see them as "second to God" and so that it always looks at them as a saviour of life and spirit, whereas their long history shows how savages they were (American-Indian, Australian natives, South African, latin American Indians, etc., are some examples). On the contrary, Chinese long history does not have such selfish and savage past. Their history is more on self-defense than offense!!! That's why Chinese are more accepted in modern and information-filled world than the west. However, the Chinese mean business, not delivering welfare to dictators as do the west. The Chinese give loans and hire their citizens as techinical-support staffs than give alms and free money. The west tried to limit African dev't to profit from their natural resources and leave the psycology of backwardness onto the people. Therefore, whether Birhanu Nega or someone else contributed to the article, the way forward is to look both East and West and pick what is best for your National Interest for each specific project!!!! The East is more favorable, and you see the results on the ground, as the west has been tried for long and never delivered dev't progrees except for the dependency on their grain and oil in case of hunger and natural disaster.

Ethiopians have to depend on themselves to bring changes.

Meles is faced with an ever powerful resistance than ever before. His fake election and abuse of power is brining him a sleepless nights. If you have been to Ethiopia cities are patroled by Armies replacing Police’s work. That is a sign of sleepless nights to EPRDF and Meles.

The west or east are looking for their own interest and exploitation of Africa. Meles was installed by the west but he is looking now east because he is going back to his core TPLF Albanian style communist beliefs.

He exhausted and over passed 20 years in faking his democracy rhetoric and it becomes difficult to justify west’s support.

He is sustained for his limitless power by the Europeans and the west, aided by donation as long as he is doing what he is asked to do.

What Ethiopia got is lip service and exploitation by foreigners and by an African/Tigrean-Eritrean banda.

When the western company exploits African resources (oil, gold, et.), the next design they have is to create hostilities among citizens and arm them to fight each other to distact them from demanding their share from the sale of their resources. They only pay one or two dictators "governing" the citizens. The unrests in Congo, Nigeria, etc., are what we witness everyday!!!!

Everyone including USA ,UK ,Canada and the west are looking to strength their relationship with China so why is it surprizing , Ethiopia is doing the same ?

Is the ecomnomist telling Ethiopians which country we should borrow money from? This magazine is getting crankier and crankier by the week.

We saw/heard the whole video of the Meles's speech and Q/A at Columbia University. Meles didn't say what the Economist attributed to him regarding Birtukan Medeksa. If the Economist wants to blackmail Meles, at least it should do so based on facts. It is pathetic what the Economist has stooped to these dys.

We all know that this tyrant wants to rule Ethiopia and Ethiopians using his tigre army and security forces with Chinese aid indefinetly.But this will remain only as a dream because we will make sure they establish their home land Tigray as their independent country and choose Meles as their leader, if he is not dead or killed before that happens.

Another Tabloid journalism by the Economist. You can have strong ties with both the East and West today. America has strong ties with China as well as all Western countries. Why can't Ethiopia??

This is a backwards, zero-sum game of the Cold War. Today many countries in the East and West exit haromously on the basis of mutual benefit.

ኢትዮጵያ ለዘላለም ትኑር

Gibberish!

A 4-grader can write a better piece than this gibberish.


"Mr Meles’s ambitious plans to pep up his country of 85m people do not include a stock exchange. Enterprise, skills, and connectivity are years behind neighbouring Kenya. But Mr Meles is shrewd. He hopes Ethiopia’s massive trade deficit will narrow as his country’s new factories export goods under preferential trade terms. Last year exports to China rose by 140%."


No Entreprise, skill??

What do you call the 'new factories'?? As far as I know according to the Webster Dictionary, factories are entreprises.

No skill?? What do U call record number university and technical graduates?? I believe they are called skilled work force. Duh!

The Economist is really turning into a Tabloid Rag! Truly! A 4-grader can write a better piece than this gibberish!

ኢትዮጵያ ለዘላለም ትኑር

Tolla,..

I like the name you gave me. LOL!
Any ways, nice to hear from you man. No hard feeling.

The Economists ANGER at Ethiopia’s Progress is really showing big time. Their RACIST attitude is really coming forth - these bozos are now reduced to calling Ethiopians unskilled and DUMB!

ኢትዮጵያ ለዘላለም ትኑር

yoni [Visitor]

"...The Chinese atleast dont degrade or strip of African's dignity."

what is Africa's dignity? death? mass immigration? famine? dictatorship? as far as i know the Chinese are notorious for downgrading such key values as human dignity, respect for human rights, freedoms of expression etc (read my counter-comment to your comrade Kena K)

only the trainees of Dedebit School of Thought would believe that China stands for human dignity or africa's dignity for that matter

Birds of the same feathers flock together.

That would be The Chinese Communist party and Marxist Leninist League of You know what.

The thing that amazes me most is how they just simply do not get it. Its not about this trade or that, roads, rails, dams, this many schools built. If all that is true, if all that was built in the interest of Ethiopians, we salut you.

The issue dogging you for twenty plus years following you where ever you go like your shadow is.....Why did you send Ethiopians to Eritrea to fight for the secession of Eritrea? Why did you beg international organization to legalize the secession? Did you advise the Ethiopian people what they thought of it before making the decision? Why do you insult the ancestors, who walked bare foot and paid the ultimate price for this nation? Why did you impose this hated ethnic bantustan first devised by Mussolini, on the backs of the Ethiopian people? If there is an Amara, an Afar, a Somali, or Gambella zone, where is Tigrae zone? If you hate so much to be called Tigrae, why you are so quick to impose the same thing on others? Why do you constantly divide Ethiopians? If you are for market economy, why do you keep the land in government ownership? Has the age old slogan "land to the tiller" been fullfilled? If you want to build all kinds of private buildings, houses, hotels, industries etc, what have you done to at least partially compensate those whose properties were stolen by Derg? Without doing so, how do you expect to keep what you have accumulated in the past twenty years? Don't you think, what you did to the Eritreans, will in due time be done to you? What do you plan to do about the leadership in the army and security apparatus who are overwhelmingly from one region, one party? Do you think Ethiopians will ever feel free, when they know there is an Agazi militia camped in their back yard, who can come out at a moments notice and murder them, like in 2005? Do you have anything to say to the Ethiopian people for your devisive hateful remarks of the past? Like I am born of this GOLDEN folks, Ye Axum Hawulet Le Wolaytaw menu new, Bandiraw cherke new, ke Eritrea belay le Eritrea ttebeka? Any regrets, or are we still on the same wave length , I am so smart le zellealem hulunem meshewed echelalehu, attitude. Let me hear your reply. If I like what I hear, more questions will be thrown your way.

Hufff, I feel like that wonderful Ethiopian, Fikre Tolossa....smile

The saddest thing what is going on today is the high raking people started owning the biggest resource in the country. Before it was hidden looting now an open owning the country’s properties. The South West energy well was bought by the highest mafias in the country from the Malaysian petroleum Company. They are the followings:
1. Meles Zenawi
2. Azeb Gola
3. Abay Woldu
4. Sadkan G/Egziabher
5. Mulugeta G/Amlak

As I warned many times the next five years is going to be the looting term since it is their final years to their horrible ruling the country.

The last 6 month, trade between Ethiopia and china grew by 140% amounting 800 million.
The end of the year it will grow by more than 200% and will reach 2 billion.

According to the plan from both sides, with in 5 years, trade between Ethiopia and china will reach around 20 billion and within 15 years more than 100 billion.
China has 1.4 billion people to feed at high level of living standards. 1.4 billion means it is more than the Entire population of Americas(North, central and south), Europe, Australia and New Zeeland.
That means the God given Ethiopian weather, abandoned water and soil can feed china and India, too and if they want, including the Arabs, producing everything including breading all kinds of fish throughout the year. Ethiopia is the only nation on Earth owns the largest territory of highland in the Tropic that gives her the best condition to work and get results with almost no extra costs because of the best weather that the country is located on the middle of the earth where the sun is always there and day and night are equal( 12 hours sun and 12 hours sunset) throughout the year.
Dega, Woyna Dega and Qola Ethiopian type of landscape and weather is unique to Ethiopia. If our highland was in Europe or elsewhere, it would be covered with snow much of the year. But, in Ethiopia it is like a natural air condition allowing the nation to get more with less efforts and cost and have the best natural living condition.

For sure, Ethiopia going to be the primary if not only nation particularly to china to feed and clothing the 1.4 billion nation with fresh foods throughout the year. In return, Ethiopia will buy and use all kinds of products china is producing including the electric cars that within 5-10 years will be mass products.
Currently, there are almost 200 companies in china engaging in electric cars. So, some of them will win the battle and become the leading car producers. There are many industrial products china is producing. They are the best building dams, rail ways, roads and the likes. They have more than 3000 dams in their country.

Therefore, the smart and respected and loved Ethiopian govt having the best relation with china is the first and best thing they are doing. It is also essential to have some relation with India keeping in mind that some of them are corrupted because of the English colonization they suffered from for hundreds years and at the end they left them after infecting them with bad behaviors and corruption is one of.... It is important to be sure that no Indian corruption is coming to Ethiopia. However, Indians are very mysterious people Ethiopia has lots in common with including the Habesha people descendents are living in India today.
So called the economist, human right and other shits are just serving those trying to stop development in Ethiopia. Ethiopians are toooooo much attached and now it is in their blood that no one would stop them from their destiny which is development for their own benefit. There are many nations are happy Ethiopia is now at this position. Therefore, no one cares about this shit organizations serving those stabbing Ethiopia from behind. we are not fool anymore.

85 million Ethiopians living in Ethiopia are behind the govt. This is what matters. Handful liars and anti Ethiopians such as B. Nega and his likes will never ever have place in Ethiopia. No one cares about them. The Ethiopian people have no time for these valueless. However, they will never be allowed to touch the Ethiopian soil again including their family members.

Slavery
Genocide in Rwanda,
Conflict in Sierra Leone,
The Lawless Somalia,
Civil War in Sudan
The never-ending war in Congo,
The failure of Zimbabwe,
Diamond and Oil wars in Angola, Aparthied Crime in South Africa.
All Africa's border conflicts.
Centuries of Debt captivity
Centuries of looting the continent
Decades of force feeding ideologies


All the above are what Africa got from its relation with the West and its colonization of Africa.

Now the economist is intrigued why Ethiopia is doing business with China the country that is holding MASSIVE US DEBTS?

What is wrong with doing business with the China and US whose trade deficit just reached a record high of $46 billion in August?

I think this subject is completely different than the news coverage but the idea is to entertain this idea.

Is the current Ethiopian administration can look into a permanent solution of sea outlet for Ethiopia?

The sea outlet option for Ethiopia could be achieved by land swap between Ethiopia and the Somaliland administration. Ethiopia can relinquish portion of its boarder area for Somali land and in return Ethiopia will be given a narrow strait or boarder area to the sea between Djibouti and Somaliland. Eventually Ethiopia will have its own port south of the Djibouti in the current Somaliland area.

Thanks,

Liqe Mekuas:

Your argument to approve the trade relation between China and the US in a rather "positive" way (while condemning China as a despotic state), is tactically intended to portray the relation between Ethiopia and China negatively. You contradict yourself in your points of argument very clearly so I do not wish to continue the debate on that issue since it is an open secret that the US has both economical and political interest in the whole venture.
Your "educated guess"(the scientific defintion of your term we yearn to know) that I am from Tigre is way out of the subject matter of this article and depicting me as an individual who is payed by the "minority despotic"(to use your terms) regime in Ethiopia explains your political engagement with which you seem to be obsessed with. The 80 or more millions of people in our country, Ethiopia are composed of close to 100 different ethnic groups, a composition which makes us rich and strong rather than divide us. For the record, I am not Tigre but even if I was I would only be proud and happy since people from Tigray are also Ethiopians as you and me are. So from which ethnic group the president or prime minister of Ethiopia originates from is completely irrelevant as long as that person does his or her job efficiently. You see Liqe Mekuas your intellectual argument loses validity if your thoughts are myopically focused on ethnic issues. The risk that you slide into the dangerous zone of bigotry and become a zealot becomes very imminent. I do hope your scope of intellectual thinking broadens to a wider and balanced view of the Ethiopian people, looking at human beings differently than being engaged narrowly based on ethnic or other terms of description.
I look at every Ethiopian, regardless of his or her ethnic background, as a human being with whom I share a very rich wealth of oneness and togetherness rather than hate or bigotry.
Apropos the recent statement by the Human Rights Watch, I recommend that your read what Mr Jean-Christophe ambassador of France to Ethiopia and permanent representative to the Africa Union said to Walta Information Centre on October 22, 2010(you may be too sceptical of anything that comes out os WIC!). The Development Assistance Group(DAG) has also released a very strong statement on October 22,2010 denouncing what Human Rights Watch has said recently on Ethiopia about which you can also read on Walta Information Centre.
Liqe Mekuas, I do hope you will receive my message positively since it is only intended to create understanding on an issue which should not have created ideological divisions between children of one Ethiopia to begin with.

Ethiopia shall prosper!!

"China has invested $2.5 billion in Ethiopia, mostly in infrastructure. Mr Meles wants China to take a lead in building a new railway network. He has also promised to use Chinese loans to build a controversial dam on the Omo River in the south. And China has decided to lend Ethiopia $234m so that nine vessels are built in Chinese shipyards for the Ethiopian Shipping Line, which operates out of Djibouti. "
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why would any ethiopian care even if it is the devil itself that ethiopia is working as long as it is for developing our poor country??? unless he/she thinks they are the selected one for ruling ethiopia.... i say keep it up!

Hey Yoni you can include : The Ethno Mafia regime in Ethiopia The Tribal based genocide comitted in Ethiopia in different parts of the country. The never ending FAMINE in Ethiopia worsen since 1991 . The despot regime hanged to power usurpating the Ethiopian Peoples powers .

The economy relationships b/n China and Ethiopia is not something new. The Economist claims China is " Meles Zenawi's new best pal." The trade r/ships b/n the two ancient countries had established long long time ago during the glorious era of the Axumite Empire. Historians tell us, " Under Ezana Aksum became the first major empire... as one of the four great powers of his time along with Persia, Rome, and China.'Adulis was Axumite's powerful trade route center.'" Wikipedia...

Zemenu,

"China never invade, occupy, or colonize any nation", whew that shows how very very short you are when it comes to history.

China is probably one of the worst Imperialistic countries on the face of the Earth. They not only colonized but treated like dirt all of VietNam for over a thousand years. They do not have the naval capacity like the Europeans, which kept them away from Africa and the Western Hemisphere, but trust me they have done a lot of things in Asia. A glaring example is what they did in Tibet. They have literally choked an ancient peaceful society, and settled untold number of Hans in order to change the demographic landscape. That is what they have planned for your children and grand children. I hear, the plan is to eventually settle over 300 million Chinese in Africa. Already they have close to a million. In some places, like Angola, serious riots erupted, because folks are beginning to understand the Chinese long term goals, and the Chinese fought back with sticks and clubs like they deserve to stay. My dear, learn from our "terttari" ancestors, who were always weiry of outsiders. You are an Ethiopian, you have a country because of their deligence. But I have great fears, the way things are going, in the near future we will end up like the Incas, and Aztecs.

YALTTERETTERE TTEMENETTERE.

Leaders of the Western world,in fact,most of them are confused and fooled by Meles Naziawi subtle and vivid tacktics;therefore,the could not distinguish a dictator from a democratic individuals.

Zinawi takes loan and grants from the west and gives not to Ethiopians to chinese government through chinese contractors;this,the west world could not get it.How fool and confused leaders of the western world is what we see today.

Zinawi wants his repressive regime to live and stay on power and it is his wishiful thinking;for his wish to happen,he must pick loyalists from here and there and indoctrinate and conditined them throu the useless yet lethal ideology called revolutionary democracy.It is all about chines and being chinese type repressive regime.Ethiopians,on the other hand,are doing well in the fight against the enemy.Getting released the honorable and people elected,Ms.Britukan Medeksa from Quality prision through their unstoppable struggle along with friends of Ethiopia is immeserable.Zinawi,can not defeat Ethiopians;sure enough,can he never,ever be fight indefinitely;therefore,soon or later he shall be running away to escape from the mighty hands of Ehtiopians,but he can not;he will be captured and be brought to the justice where he faces the volcanic heat form all side until he willingly confess how many Ethiopians he killed and how resources he looted.

what Ethiopia has today is what God endodwed Ehtiopia with,God never,ever has given Ethiopia, devils like Zinawi;Zinawi is very temporary,but china will be overtaken by India;so will Ethiopians take out Zinawians of Ethiopia.This,everybody knows it.

Meles is strengthen his tie with Chinese because of his Communist core ideology and to strengthen his Tigre Armies. This also goes back to his TPLF belief of in making Tigray strong and separate.

He knows his honeymoon with the west is over as in the fake new breed of African democratic leader.