RT reports that the “Democratic Republic” of Congo “has banned former President Joseph Kabila’s political party and ordered his assets to be seized.” This is what the Biden regime and a corrupt New York “judicial” system tried to do to Trump. Or has the Democrat attempt to imprison Trump and to steal Trump’s New York... Read More

Based on our values of who we are in a democracy, it is time to give DR Congo hundreds of billions of dollars in US taxpayer money in order to protect the values of who we are, because part of the values of who we are is that the borders of any country cannot ever... Read More

My piece in Asia Times this week is China plays long game on Congo copper. For students of the IMF vs. Chinese theories of economic development, I think the details of the Chinese struggle to keep this project going in the teeth of Western disapproval strikingly illustrates some conspicuous and interesting differences. For people who... Read More

In the secret history of the Obama administration’s campaign to roll back Chinese inroads in Africa, Western shenanigans in the Democratic Republic of Congo will deserve a separate chapter. The West blocked China’s massive $9 billion dollar ore-for-infrastructure project in order to protect its flagship project—Freeport McMoRan’s Tunke Fungurume copper mine--and show the DRC who... Read More