【卫报】China tries to avoid colonial abuses in Africa

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China tries to avoid colonial abuses in Africa
http://www.smh.com.au/world/china-tries-to-avoid-colonial-abuses-in-africa-20090522-bi9o.html

Tania Branigan in Beijing and Julian Borger in London May 23, 2009

CHINA has embarked on a series of joint projectswith Britain in Africa, with the aim of avoiding the abuses andmistakes committed by former colonial powers as it rapidly increasesits economic role on the continent.

It invested $US4.5billion ($5.8 billion) in infrastructure in Africa in 2007, more thanthe G8 countries combined. The number of Chinese companies operating inAfrica has more than doubled in just two years to 2000, with about 400operating in Nigeria alone, according to new research.

Incontrast to the "one dimensional" stereotype of state-owned enterprisesextracting natural resources, most of the investment is from privatelyowned firms.

However, many of the businesspractices followed by those companies, such as a preference for usingChinese workers, coupled with Beijing's belief that human rights arethe preserve of host country governments, have led to claims that therapid rise of Chinese influence in Africa has not helped its humanrights.

"The Chinese firms that are moving are buildinginfrastructure … but what they are not doing, neither the ChineseGovernment nor the companies, is raising any issues about how thepopulation is being treated," Irene Khan, the secretary-general ofAmnesty International, said.

"Therefore we find that theChinese presence is not helping the human rights situation. It might beaggravating it when revenues and resources are being paid … [to] hugelycorrupt and oppressive governments."

In an apparentreflection of Chinese anxiety over its reputation in Africa, embassiesand companies have been urged by Beijing to forge closer links to localcommunities.

China has also entered into a partnership withBritain's Department for International Development, intended to controlthe social and environmental impact of Chinese investment.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, the department isworking with the Government and Chinese companies to fund the draftingof social and environmental standards that road building projects willhave to adhere to, and to carry out assessments of the impact of thenew roads.

Most attention has focused on themultibillion-dollar infrastructure-for-resources deals China has signedwith African governments.

The problem facing suchgovernment-to-government programs is that the projects are not carriedout by central planners, but by a plethora of Chinese firms. Evidencefrom more than 100 interviews in China and Africa indicates that morethan 80 per cent of the companies are private.

Dr Jing Gu,a research fellow at Sussex University's Institute of DevelopmentStudies, which carried out the research, said Chinese businesses werewell placed to tap into what some called "the last golden land" becauseof similarities to the Chinese market of the 1980s and '90s. However,some local resentment was building up, she said.

Guardian News & Media

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elpeggy

认领。
http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-171670-1-1.html

elpeggy

文章已翻译完毕，但发现一个比较严重的问题。
此帖使用的是悉尼晨报的版本，标题改动，内容有所删节。卫报原文的标题是“China at the crossroads-China looks to British experience for African expansion”，而且此文有卫报自己的中文版本。
卫报英文原文：http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ ... s-investment-africa
卫报中文译文：http://guardian.yeeyan.com/guardian/42215
卫报中文译文翻译基本到位，除了倒数第二段的“民族中心”应翻译成“血缘认同”，倒数第二段删去了Jing Gu说的话的最后一句“这确实在中国人和非洲人之间造成了一些紧张局面甚至暴力行为，比如在尼日利亚、加纳和马达加斯加这些国家。”

我们是否应该采用卫报原文，或者直接引用卫报的中文译文（或稍加修改）？

Iam_zhcn

TO elpeggy：
翻译辛苦多谢
请把你翻译《悉尼晨报》的 发布在『外媒传真』，后面附加上“地板”的内容即可！