{"id":9217,"date":"2017-08-08T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:29:21","slug":"%e0%a4%85%e0%a4%ab%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%80%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%9a%e0%a5%80%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%a4-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a5%87-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=9217","title":{"rendered":"\u0905\u092b\u094d\u0930\u0940\u0915\u093e \u092e\u0947\u0902  \u091a\u0940\u0928 : \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0938\u0947 \u0915\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0917\u093e\u0921\u0940 \u0915\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u091b\u0942\u091f  \u0928 \u091c\u093e\u092f\u0947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u091a\u0940\u0928 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0940 \u0906\u0930\u094d\u0925\u093f\u0915 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0917\u0924\u093f \u0938\u0947 \u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935 \u0935\u093f\u091c\u092f \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 .\u092a\u0930\u0928\u094d\u0924\u0941 \u0939\u0942\u0923 \u00a0\u0935\u094d \u092e\u094b\u0902\u0917\u094b\u0932\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0906\u0915\u094d\u0930\u092e\u0923 \u0938\u0947 \u0932\u0947\u0915\u0930 \u0967\u096f\u096c\u0968 \u0924\u0915 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0915\u092d\u0940 \u091c\u0940\u0924 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u092a\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948 .\u0905\u092c \u091c\u092c \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0915\u093e \u0906\u0930\u094d\u0925\u093f\u0915 \u0935\u093f\u0915\u093e\u0938 \u092d\u0940 \u0939\u094b \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0939\u092e\u0947\u0902 \u091a\u0940\u0928 \u0915\u0940 \u091a\u093e\u0932\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u091f \u0922\u0942\u0902\u0922\u0928\u093e \u091c\u0930\u0942\u0930\u0940 \u0939\u0948 .<\/p>\n<div class=\"trb_article_articleHeader_head\">\n<div class=\"trb_article_title\">\n<h1 class=\"trb_article_title_text\">China says it built a railway in Africa out of altruism, but it&#8217;s more strategic than that<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_article_leadart\">\n<aside class=\"trb_em\" data-role=\"sc_item imgsize_ratiosizecontainer\" data-state=\"\" data-content-type=\"image\" data-content-size=\"leadart\" data-content-subtype=\"photo\" data-content-id=\"94037246\" data-content-slug=\"la-1499445623-cw0z7hary7-snap-image\">\n<div class=\"trb_em_m\">\n<figure class=\"trb_em_ic_figure\" data-role=\"imgsize_item\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"trb_em_ic_img\" title=\"The new Addis Ababa train station is the final destination for the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti R\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fb97b\/turbine\/la-1499445623-cw0z7hary7-snap-image\/700\/700x394\" alt=\"The new Addis Ababa train station is the final destination for the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti R\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fb97b\/turbine\/la-1499445623-cw0z7hary7-snap-image\" data-width=\"700\" data-height=\"400\" data-ratio=\"16x9\" data-c-nd=\"2048x1152\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"trb_em_r\" data-role=\"lightbox_metadata\">\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related_credit\">Noah Fowler \/ For The Times<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related_caption\">The new train station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one terminus of the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway, which extends to the port of Djibouti.<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_embed_related_credit_and_caption\">The new train station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is one terminus of the Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway, which extends to the port of Djibouti. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_bylines\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_nm_pm\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_nm_au\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_nm_au_by\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">By <\/span><\/span>Jonathan Kaima<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_article_dateline\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"trb_mainContent\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"trb_article_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_article_page_body\"><!-- Twitter SDK --> <!-- Facebook JSDK --><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\" class=\" fb_reset\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Africa\u2019s past is the mildewed train station in central Addis Ababa, where locomotives sit gutted and rusted tracks vanish in the grass. The line was once the greatest in Africa; built by France in the 1910s, it ran more than 450 miles northeast to neighboring Djibouti, where the desert meets the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s future is the new station a short drive away, a yellow-and-white edifice with grand pilasters, arched windows and a broad flagstone square. It\u2019s connected to a $4-billion, 470-mile-long rail line, the first electrified cross-border rail system in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The new rail network was built by China\u2019s state-owned rail and construction firms, which were eager to promote their investment in Africa\u2019s future. Red banners running down the towering facade of the new train station declare, in bold Chinese characters, \u201cLong live Sino-African friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China has described its railroad adventures in Africa as an exercise in altruism.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for China, investing in Ethiopia \u2014 one of the world\u2019s poorest countries \u2014 is more strategic than philanthropic. With U.S. engagement on the continent at a low ebb, economically and politically, China sees an opportunity to improve transportation through the Horn of Africa and make itself the dominant economic partner on a continent that is about to see an explosion of new cheap labor, cellphone users and urban consumers.<\/p>\n<p>For several decades, China\u2019s African investments were aimed primarily at creating political allies across the continent. Beijing invested heavily in hearts-and-minds projects such as soccer stadiums and hospitals. But a significant change is underway. China now sees Africa as an important economic opportunity. It has been pouring money into infrastructure across the continent, and this week it opened its first overseas military base in Djibouti.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"full left\">\n<div class=\"responsive-embed\"><\/div><figcaption>The Ethiopia-Djibouti rail line was once the greatest in Africa. Built by France in the 1910s, it ran more than 450 miles from landlocked Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, to the neighboring coastal country of Djibouti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By 2034, Africa is expected to have 1.1 billion workers, the world\u2019s largest working-age population, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/05\/what-s-the-future-of-economic-growth-in-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to economic forecasts.<\/a> By 2025, the continent\u2019s consumers will be spending $2 trillion a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy vision is, by 2020, Ethiopia\u2019s economy will be among the world\u2019s mid-level economies,\u201d said Mekonnen Getachew, a project manager at the Ethiopian Railways Corp., which oversees the rail line. \u201cThe rail will make every economic activity easier. Our economy will boom.\u2026 This railway is making Ethiopia great again!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"medium left\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-59865cba\/turbine\/la-1501977783-6jvanctvo3-snap-image\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese march through Africa has come as U.S. engagement on the continent has been dialed down to its lowest level in years.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has barely mentioned Africa in his public statements, and his \u201cAmerica first\u201d rhetoric, some Africa experts say, is pushing the continent further into China\u2019s embrace.<\/p>\n<p>While Chinese companies have looked to make money in Africa and share with Africans some of the jobs, tax revenues, infrastructure and spinoff development that go along with new investment, the U.S. has focused on improving African lives through aid, social programs and conditional loans.<\/p>\n<p>Western companies have often been reluctant to participate in African infrastructure projects for fear of overwhelming maintenance costs. In many cases, they could simply build new projects more cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans still see Africa as a place where there are a lot of presidents for life, wars and famines,\u201d said Reuben Brigety, dean at George Washington University\u2019s Elliott School of International Affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to the <a id=\"ORGOV000356\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"African Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics-government\/government\/african-union-ORGOV000356-topic.html\">African Union<\/a>. \u201cThey don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening on the continent economically and demographically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Ethiopia, the country\u2019s rail executives said China seems more attuned to Africa\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina doesn\u2019t give simple aid,\u201d Getachew said. \u201cThey do give loans. You work, and you return back. That\u2019s a good policy. Aid is just making slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the China-Africa relationship was almost entirely transactional: China gave African states easy loans, enabling them to build bridges and stadiums; in return, those states gave China access to natural resources, such as oil, timber and nickel, fueling China\u2019s economic boom.<\/p>\n<p>But as China&#8217;s foreign policy grows more sophisticated \u2014 and more ambitious \u2014 that era is ending, and the relationship is growing much deeper, with extraordinary implications for the continent\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese nationals in Africa \u2014 once a scattered cohort of officials, mining executives and construction crews \u2014 are being joined by tourists, peacekeepers, poachers, soldiers and small-time entrepreneurs. Together, they are generating both riches and new political clout for Beijing and helping establish China as the world\u2019s newest superpower.<\/p>\n<p>For Ethiopia, China\u2019s infrastructure expenditures are an essential element in plans to emerge from a long cycle of drought, poverty, famine and war. The railroad is a start.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian officials say the line will eventually grow into a 3,000-mile rail network that stretches across neighboring Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya \u2014 where China recently completed another railway, for $3.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The new Ethiopia-Djibouti line\u2019s trains are near-identical copies of the carriages that traversed China before the government, about a decade ago, began swapping them out for high-speed rail. They have the same ramrod-straight seat backs; the same boiling water dispensers in nearly every car, essential for instant noodles and green tea.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia relies on Djibouti\u2019s ports for 90% of its foreign trade. But since the old railroad collapsed in 2009 after decades of decline, the landlocked country\u2019s billions of dollars of imports and exports \u2014 fuel, coffee, livestock \u2014 have had to travel by truck, a three-to-four-day journey along rutted, dusty roads.<\/p>\n<p>The new rail line, which will be fully operational by October, will cut the trip to 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coaches are very new. It\u2019s electric. It\u2019s very comfortable. You enjoy the scenery along the corridor,\u201d said Yehualaeshet Jemere, a top official with the Ethiopian Railways Corp. \u201cIt\u2019s like a dream come true for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"medium right\"><figcaption> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia\u2019s capital, China is driving an urban renaissance. It has built whole neighborhoods, a $475-million light-railway system and even the African Union headquarters, a $200-million complex that dominates the city\u2019s skyline. In the country\u2019s hinterlands, it has constructed several industrial parks, anticipating a manufacturing boom.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s first overseas military base had its official opening on Tuesday near the terminus of the new rail line in Djibouti. The 90-acre complex includes housing for thousands of soldiers and berths for commercial and military vessels.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"medium left\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-59865ce1\/turbine\/la-1501977821-kjv1zcj8gp-snap-image\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Beijing\u2019s reach already stretches well beyond Djibouti and Ethiopia. China surpassed the U.S. as Africa\u2019s largest trading partner in 2009, and the numbers continue to climb. (Foreign direct investment has dropped in recent years, along with declining global resource prices.)<\/p>\n<p>China stands to gain tremendously from its investments. Chinese businesses, hampered by slowing growth at home, are increasingly treating the continent as a major overseas market.<\/p>\n<p>In Beijing, the political will driving such projects extends to the top. Through the \u201cBelt and Road Initiative,\u201d launched by President <a id=\"PEPLT00008864\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"Xi Jinping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/politics-government\/government\/xi-jinping-PEPLT00008864-topic.html\">Xi Jinping<\/a> in 2013, China is funding $1 trillion of infrastructure and trade projects throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In December 2015, Xi met with African leaders in Johannesburg, South Africa, and pledged $60 billion for development projects across the continent over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s Africa is a continent of encouraging and dynamic development,\u201d he said in a speech. \u201cSuch a momentum of independent development is unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-story\">\n<div class=\"photoset\">\n<figure class=\"full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fbc46\/turbine\/la-fg-china-africa-ethiopia-pictures-2017-008\/\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"visible-phone\">Zhang Huarong, chief executive of Huajian Shoe Co., inspects the production lines. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"diptych collage\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fbc52\/turbine\/la-fg-china-africa-ethiopia-pictures-2017-001\/\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"visible-phone\"> In the Chinese-owned Huajian Shoe Co. Factory in Addis Ababa, more than 6,000 workers build shoes for American brands such <a id=\"PEBSL000104\" class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" title=\"Tommy Hilfiger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/business\/consumer-goods-industries\/clothing-textiles-industry\/tommy-hilfiger-PEBSL000104-topic.html\"><span style=\"color: #4591b8;\">Tommy Hilfiger<\/span><\/a>, Guess and Lucky. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fbda0\/turbine\/la-fg-china-africa-ethiopia-pictures-2017-004\/\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption class=\"visible-phone\"> The end of the shift at the Huajian Shoe Co. Factory. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Top, Zhang Huarong, chief executive of Huajian Shoe Co., inspects the production lines. Left, in the Chinese-owned Huajian Shoe Co. Factory in Addis Ababa, more than 6,000 workers build shoes for American brands such Tommy Hilfiger, Guess and Lucky. Right, the end of the shift at the factory. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a Chinese-built industrial park along the new rail line, in a Chinese-run factory, thousands of employees of Huajian Shoe Co. \u2014 all of them Ethiopian \u2014 work 13-hour days gluing, inspecting and boxing women\u2019s shoes. Above them hang propaganda posters in Chinese, English and Amharic, Ethiopia\u2019s national language, imploring workers to \u201cwin honor for the country\u201d and to \u201cabsolutely obey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Huarong, the company\u2019s chief executive, wandered through the immaculate rows of workers on an inspection tour, a crowd of subordinates trailing behind him. \u201cAfrica is too poor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt needs entrepreneurs like me to balance out the global economy, so that more people can live a happy life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang was proud of his Ethiopian investments. The new rail will knock shipping prices from $5,000 per container to $3,000, he said. And for the cost of one Chinese worker, Zhang can hire five Ethiopians. He plans to employ 50,000 within eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEthiopia is like China was 40 years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though this place is pretty tough, we think within five or 10 years, its economic development will be pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every pair of shoes produced in Huajian\u2019s factories, in China and Ethiopia, is exported to the U.S.; its clients include the labels Tommy Hilfiger, Guess and Lucky.<\/p>\n<p>As the sun set at the factory, about a dozen Ethiopian workers lined up in formation, closing out the workday. An Ethiopian manager waved his arms, as if conducting a choir, and together they sang a Chinese military anthem from the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnity is strength. Unity is strength,\u201d they sang in Mandarin. \u201cOpen fire on the fascists. Bring death to all nondemocratic systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"full left\">\n<div class=\"responsive-embed\"><\/div><figcaption>At the Chinese company Huajian Shoe Co.\u2019s factory in Addis Ababa, thousands of employees work long days gluing, inspecting and boxing women\u2019s shoes, all of them bound for the U.S. market.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adama, a city of 300,000 people 60 miles down the rail line from Addis Ababa, is preparing for a boom \u2014 but not everyone considers it progress.<\/p>\n<p>Small blue auto rickshaws jostle for road space with hulking Chinese trucks, and rows of half-built concrete houses stretch up into the plains. At the end of a half-built road is the city\u2019s new train station \u2014 another massive edifice, its interior covered in dust.<\/p>\n<p>Since construction began six years ago, the price of land in Adama has increased sevenfold to about $140 per square foot, said Shambel Worku, the station\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n<p>Yet progress is slow, and locals are suffering, highlighting the hidden costs of rapid economic development. In late January, the road was still a mess of pylons and ditches. And the machine-gun-toting security guards overseeing the empty station lacked water, forcing them to walk hours for a drink.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"full left\">\n<div class=\"responsive-embed\"><\/div><figcaption>The Chinese-built railway could bring an economic renaissance to Adama, a city of 300,000 people 60 miles down the rail line from Addis Ababa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Farmers in Lugo Village, an impoverished cluster of slapdash houses a few hundred yards from the station, said the rail project has made life unbearable, in part because locals can\u2019t cross the rail construction zone, but must go around it.<\/p>\n<p>It \u201cdivides the village into two,\u201d said Tashoma Kafani, 72. Before construction began, he said, he could walk to his barley and maize fields in about two hours; now, he needs about five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly contacted the local authorities,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have been expressing our problems and voicing our concern about the absence of a bridge. But so far, they haven&#8217;t been responsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the Chinese planners who designed the project, Kafani can\u2019t even imagine how to communicate with them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"full left\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Central Djibouti City, Djibouti.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-595fbaee\/turbine\/la-1499445993-fsey9w79ob-snap-image\" alt=\"Central Djibouti City, Djibouti.\" \/><figcaption>Central Djibouti City, Djibouti. (Noah Fowler \/ For The Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rail line crosses into Djibouti about 360 miles to the northeast. It ends in the capital, Djibouti City, where, on the western edge of its main port, China is building the new military base \u2014 an unprecedented projection of power for China\u2019s rapidly expanding army.<\/p>\n<p>Djibouti is a former French colony of 850,000 people, and its capital \u2014 a patchy grid of dusty streets and sun-bleached Moorish buildings \u2014 feels like an island, hemmed in by endless miles of massive, walled-off foreign compounds.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s base is about eight miles from Camp Lemonnier, America\u2019s only full-scale base in Africa. France, Germany, Italy and Japan also maintain bases in Djibouti, both for its political stability \u2014 its president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, has ruled the country since 1999 \u2014 and its proximity to terrorism hot spots in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials call the base a \u201csupply center,\u201d intended primarily to support China\u2019s anti-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden \u2014 a crucial shipping route \u2014 and protect its commercial interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are very sensitive about [the Djibouti base], but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s fair,\u201d said Xu Guangyu, a retired People\u2019s Liberation Army major general in Beijing. The U.S. maintains hundreds of overseas bases, he said. \u201cWe in China think it\u2019s silly, to have so many overseas military bases. We have built only one supply center. So why all the speculation about this news?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter Dutton, professor of strategic studies at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, said China\u2019s new base says more about the country\u2019s economic heft than its military ambitions. \u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about is fundamentally geoeconomics, rather than geo-strategy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, China is \u201cwalking away from some of the premises that have undergirded its foreign policy for 60 years,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re beginning to act like a great power which takes a role in international politics and security. And that\u2019s a fairly significant change for China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China has given Djibouti\u2019s government billions of dollars in loans and investment, helping fund new ports, two airports and a pipeline for drinking water from Ethiopia. It\u2019s also planning a series of power plants and a tax-free manufacturing zone. Nearly a quarter of Djibouti\u2019s population lives beneath the poverty line \u2014 its unemployment rate in 2014 was 60% \u2014 and locals say the country desperately needs the help.<\/p>\n<p>Djibouti inaugurated the rail line in January in a mass celebration featuring Djiboutian celebrities and African heads of state. By early February, the line hadn\u2019t yet opened, and the festive atmosphere had died down, but locals were feeling hopeful nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>At the rail line\u2019s penultimate station \u2014 another empty monolith \u2014 Degan Mohamed, 31, stood alone but for five security guards, sweeping up dust. She was hired as a janitor in October, her first-ever job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no alternative,\u201d she said. \u201cI am earning money, so I am quite happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>ABOUT THIS SERIES:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is the first in a series of reports on a massive program of Chinese investment that is reshaping Africa. Times staff writer Jonathan Kaiman and visual journalist Noah Fowler traveled to Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and Ghana with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. More online, including 360-degree videos, at latimes.com\/chinainafrica<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jonathan.kaiman@latimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">jonathan.kaiman@latimes.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more news from Asia, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jrkaiman\" target=\"_blank\">@JRKaiman<\/a> on Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/africa\/la-fg-rwanda-thieves-executed-20170713-story.html#nt=oft01a-1li2\">The neat-as-a-pin African country where people are executed for petty theft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/africa\/la-fg-south-africa-rhino-horn-trade-20170802-story.html#nt=oft01a-1la1\">Armed only with her grandmother&#8217;s shotgun, a South African woman fights to save her rhinos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/africa\/la-fg-drcongo-war-kasai-20170626-htmlstory.html#nt=oft01a-1li2\">They&#8217;re killing babies and torching villages: Who is behind the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s ugly new war?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u091a\u0940\u0928 \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0940 \u0906\u0930\u094d\u0925\u093f\u0915 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0917\u0924\u093f \u0938\u0947 \u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935 \u0935\u093f\u091c\u092f \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092a\u0928\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0930\u0939\u093e \u0939\u0948 .\u092a\u0930\u0928\u094d\u0924\u0941 \u0939\u0942\u0923 \u00a0\u0935\u094d&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=9217\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-2","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9218,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}