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Analysts Say Chinese Military Hardware Donated To Zimbabwe Does Not Address Real Issues

1 year agoMon, 18 Dec 2023 06:39:38 GMT
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Analysts Say Chinese Military Hardware Donated To Zimbabwe Does Not Address Real Issues

A recent donation of Chinese military hardware to the government of Zimbabwe has caused a stir among analysts with some saying it was misplaced as it does not address real issues affecting the southern African nation. The donated equipment includes armoured fighting vehicles, personnel carriers, ambulances, motorised water purifiers, patrol boats, and various weapons.

Some analysts argue that the donation is part of China’s strategy to further its interests in Zimbabwe’s mineral resources. Farai Maguwu, a human rights defender and director of the Centre for Natural Resources Governance, suggests that the Chinese donation is driven by their desire for access to Zimbabwe’s mining sector. He told NewsDay:

There is no free lunch, nations are driven by interests not love. The most important thing is to find out what the motive behind the donation is. So, when you look at the destructive role of China in Zimbabwe’s mineral sector, it’s not meaningful.

The Chinese involved in the mineral sector have not been able to build even a school or clinic in communities they have been working in.

We have not been at war with any country since independence. The real enemy we want to fight today is poverty, climate-induced disasters, droughts, fight against decline in health and education standards, that is what we need.

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Others, like political analyst Tendai Reuben Mbofana, view the donation as dishonest and misplaced. Mbofana argues that Zimbabwe faces pressing issues such as extreme poverty, inadequate healthcare facilities, and a lack of basic necessities like schools. He said:

The deal was an anti-people one. We are looking at a country that is globally known for its poverty, nearly half of the population is living in extreme poverty, we do not have hospitals equipped to serve the people and basic essentials.

We do have cancer machines. We do not have ambulances and we have children who are learning under trees because they do not have schools.

What do we need guns for when our children are languishing in extreme poverty? Who are we fighting? This equipment can be used to kill civilians.

Professor Stephen Chan, a World Politics expert at the University of London, suggests that the equipment provided by China is primarily for border wars. He said:

For the most part, the Chinese donation is light tactical skirmishing equipment for border wars — not all of it useful, such as the patrol boats.

Zimbabwe’s only real water border is Lake Kariba, and its neighbour on the other side, Zambia, poses no military threat. This is a goodwill gesture from China, probably excess equipment it no longer needs itself.

Having said that, the motorised water purifiers might have a beneficial non-military use in helping to alleviate the cholera epidemic caused by impure water. For the most part this donation has no global geo-political context.

Former foreign minister Walter Mzembi criticised the donation, likening it to a friend providing weapons during a conflict. He warned that if harm befalls one’s family or children due to these weapons, the friend who provided them should be held accountable.

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15 Comments

Mbada · 1 year ago
Nothing is for free in this world. Zimbabwe is being mortgaged and it is our children who will suffer even more. This regime don't care about it's citizens. They are only filling their own pockets.
doug · 1 year ago
Maybe the arms were given to the country when the Chinese heard the senior party member challenging the general population to fight them as they had won the country. The Chinese think the war is not over yet as donations or aid usually target the situation on the ground. The Eastern countries give aid and donations to leaders of countries to secure their positions while the West gives donations and aid that keeps the very poor and marginalised alive. One just has to think of how many millions of people were given a chance to live by the donation of ARVs, medicines and food. The funny thing is that the leaders castigate those who give donations and aid to the people, and the people castigate those who give aid and donations to the leaders.
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putin 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🐊🐊🐊 · 1 year ago
All weather friends
· 1 year ago
Fair weather friends
Dhodha · 1 year ago
Remember Lobengula's gunboat? Same scenario
dddd · 1 year ago
military equipment inotodiwa mino coz zim yagara yanga isitorina chinhu saka handioni chakashata apa
· 1 year ago
What for?
XXX · 1 year ago
While this writer welcomes donations, humbly beg to reject this Chinese Military donation as "anti-people" donation.The Chinese were just "offloading" unwanted military stock. ZImbabwe is not at war with all its neighbours. China is just "buying" permission to continue mining and exporting our precious minerals to China. [ NYIKA INOTONGWA NEVENE VAYO ]. EHE ICHO !!!!!
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Motive? Two words, Tianamin Square.
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🧐 🤔 🤨 🙄 🤪 · 1 year ago
This is not an armermant program but and upgrade to have a sophisticated equipment that is at par with others in the region and a donation is more cherish able as no budget could mete such programs saka kungovukura using a analysis kwechi CCC uko u bharanzi Besides all this, Zimbabwe is very rich and no doubt we needs to protect our naturals
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Zuze · 1 year ago
Zimbabwe is not at war with any country. Neither are there hostile countries surrounding us. There aren't any territorial disputes with any of the five countries bordering us, except for negligible issue of the peg at the Zimbabwe/Zambia/Botswana/Namibia confluence at the Kazangula Bridge. The fact of the matter is that the sitting regime is at war with its own citizens, a war arising from electoral Theft and fear of uprisings arising from that and the economic meltdown. The regime is preparing for war with its own. The Chinese are ready to oblige, reminiscent of The Tiananmen Square massacre.
Anonymous · 1 year ago
You forget that you have Islamic insurgency just across the border.If only pe8who know what they are talking about would comment. Every **** who knows nothing aboUT security is talking here as if they know anything about the subject matter.If you know what's important for your countenance you yourself should procure that instead if being beggars and chose rs of whatever is donated to you
ECD A · 1 year ago
what are you saying cde? mungamukira kunyora marara akadai paPindula
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🌚🌚🌚🌚🇱🇷🇺🇦 · 1 year ago
I do not understand why people think Mnangagwa will solve zimbabwe's problem when his former boss told you that the man was a lair who lacks probity who needed to be led . Otherwise he lacks good judgement and does not care about Zimbabwe other than his family that is why his policies are antipeople. 3

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