China of Mao conquered militarily \u00a0Tibet \u00a0in 1959, today Ethiopia became the new colony without firing a a shot. With the Chinese speaking symbolic president of Ethiopia \u00a0at the top. Ethiopians are slaved \u00a0regimented almost for free paid under dollar\u00a0\u00a0a day. Please read the following article entitled “Turning Ethiopia Into China’s China.”<\/p>\n

by\u00a0Kevin Hamlin<\/a>,\u00a0 Ilya Gridneff<\/a>, and\u00a0 William Davison<\/a>\u00a0 for Bloomberg\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Ethiopian workers walking through the parking lot of Huajian Shoes\u2019 factory outside Addis Ababa in June chose the wrong day to leave their shirts untucked. The company\u2019s president, just arrived from China, spotted them through the window, sprang up, and ran outside. Zhang Huarong, a former People\u2019s Liberation Army soldier, harangued them in Chinese, tugging at one man\u2019s polo shirt and forcing another worker\u2019s into his pants. Amazed, the workers stood silent until the eruption subsided.<\/div>\n

Zhang\u2019s factory is part of the next wave of China\u2019s investment in Africa. It started with infrastructure, especially the kind that helped the Chinese extract African oil, copper, and other raw materials to fuel China\u2019s industrial complex. Now China is getting too expensive to do the low-tech work it\u2019s known for. African nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tanzania want their share of the 80\u00a0million manufacturing jobs that China is expected to export, according to Justin Lin Yifu, a former World Bank chief economist who teaches economics at Peking University. Weaker consumer spending in the U.S. and Europe has prompted global retailers to speed up their search for lower-cost producers.<\/div>\n

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Shaping up employees is one part of Zhang\u2019s quest to squeeze more profit out of Huajian\u2019s factory, where wages of about $40 a month are less than 10\u00a0percent of what comparable Chinese workers may make. Just as companies discovered with China when they began manufacturing there in the 1980s, Ethiopia\u2019s workforce is untrained, its power supply is intermittent, and its roads are so bad that trips can take six times as long as they should. \u201cEthiopia is exactly like China 30 years ago,\u201d says Zhang, 55, who quit the military in 1982 to make shoes from his home in Jiangxi province with three sewing machines. He now supplies such well-known brands as Nine West and\u00a0Guess<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(GES<\/a>)<\/span>.<\/div>\n

Almost three years after Zhang began his Ethiopian adventure at the invitation of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, he says he\u2019s unhappy with profits at the plant, frustrated by \u201cwidespread inefficiency\u201d in the local bureaucracy, and struggling to raise productivity from a level that he says is about a third of China\u2019s. Transportation and logistics that cost as much as four times what they do in China are prompting Huajian to set up its own trucking company, according to Zhang. That will free Huajian from using the inefficient local haulers, but it can\u2019t fix the roads. It takes two hours to drive 30\u00a0kilometers (18\u00a0miles) to the Huajian factory from the capital along the main artery. Oil tankers and trucks stream along the bumpy, potholed, and at times unpaved road. Goats, donkeys, and cows wander along, occasionally straying into bumper-to-bumper traffic. Minibuses and dented taxis, mostly blue Ladas from Ethiopia\u2019s past as a Soviet ally, weave through oncoming traffic, coughing exhaust.<\/div>\n

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