China builds more 'ghost' cities...in Africa.

The ghost towns of China, Ireland and Spain - full of large empty house estates - may be a phenomenon that is on its way to Africa.

Built for people who never move in, they leave those who did with a worthless property they cannot sell.

Perched in an isolated spot some 30km (18 miles) outside Angola's capital, Luanda, Nova Cidade de Kilamba is a brand-new mixed residential development of 750 eight-storey apartment buildings, a dozen schools and more than 100 retail units.

Designed to house up to half a million people when complete, Kilamba has been built by the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) in under three years at a reported cost of $3.5bn (£2.2bn).

Spanning 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres), the development is the largest of several new "satellite cities" being constructed by Chinese firms around Angola, and it is believed to be one of the largest new-build projects on the continent.

I'd like to see them try colonialism and occupation accross the arab world, the logical outcome would be terrorist attacks in China, and tbh, If Muslims and Arabs think the USA, Europe, Nato Force, Israel etc, are bad, China don't give a **** about public relations and would completely crush that world.

Now I'm no fear-monger or slimy conspiracy theorist, but it would seem that China is planning way, way ahead of many countries of the world in building these large cities, no? Planning for what, I do not know...

I think it's obvious China wants and is taking a hold in Africa, question is what is the west going to do about it ?

I think it's obvious China wants and is taking a hold in Africa, question is what is the west going to do about it ?

Why would the West have to do anything about it? I think the West should stay out of it - ancestral governments of certain Western powers already had their chance and simply invaded the continent and stole and hugely exploited. At least China is actually laying down business systems and effecting two-way trading that is generating billions upon billions of dollars; unlike throwing charity concerts and dishing out handouts in a patronizing way and not actually doing anything to directly aid in countries of the continent getting on their own two feet - throwing cash at Africa won't solve the continental issues.

They cant do anything, most of the west is now bank rolled by China, you dont go and kick your lender do you?

They cant do anything, most of the west is now bank rolled by China, you dont go and kick your lender do you?

They will sell. Angola is the worlds (or was) most expensive cities. Building all the housing Angola needs for the expansion of the middle class in one go is genius. It's like when we built Stevenage and Milton Keynes after WWII.

It is the other way around, you don't kick your debtor if you want paying back.

China may have its ulterior motives but surely this is one of the best things to happen for the millions of poor Angolans leaving in shanty towns. China here is just doing business by building it in exchange for oil. The government would be forced to make those affordable in order to at get some rents. For once we should applaud an african government that is spending its OIL REVENUE in infrastructure that will benefit the locals