The government of Zimbabwe after starving its population by driving the Germanic farmers from their lands—farmers who had accepted Mugabe’s invitation to stay in Zimbabwe and build a more “integrated” nation—now is to “cede land to the Chinese” a “fast growing nation”, in an attempt to bolster agricultural production.

Aside from being an absurd policy for Zimbabwe to have followed, it betrays a loss of wise heritage among the Chinese—the heritage that burned their merchant fleet upon return from Africa rather than allowing their merchants to open the Pandora’s box of African colonialism and importation of African slaves.  It is truly astounding that the Chinese government would, given the disastrous results of colonialism of Africa among European peoples now manifest, willingly give up perhaps their greatest advantage over the West: Their insularity from Africa.  As a ruthless competitor of the Chinese I could take glee in this—but as an ethical universal nationalist I must honestly grieve for the Chinese people’s poor leadership.  I see no evidence that the Chinese, unlike Jews such as Disraeli and the earlier slavers, played a part in promoting penetration of European society via colonization and slavery out of Africa—hence I can find no justice—no joy—in it.  Rather it seems the Chinese are losing their identity to global mercantilism and are now subject to the same disastrous logic.

During the summer of 2000 I visited Zimbabwe to find the sons of farming families that had been driven (sometimes murderously) from their lands.  My hope was to train them to program computers and perhaps help them and their families find a way out of the hell hole Africa was fast becoming for them.  This was just prior to the collapse of the DotCon bubble which was compounded by a flood of H-1b quasi-slaves from India (itself compounded by outsourcing to India).  I was forced to abandon the project due, not only to the lack of positions I could offer them, but also due to a depletion of my own resources as they were diverted to south Asians.  Fortunately, I was very cautious in asking for any investments from the dispossessed families so no harm was done.

My experience in Zimbabwe, following close on the heels of my experience in Siberia in 1998, is what led me to conceive “The GOD Hypothesis” (that extended phenotypes of dominant genetic groups tend to overtake the phenotypes of more recessive genetic groups when they are not socially separated).  I witnessed seemingly schizophrenic behavior among the Germanics of Zimbabwe.  It was almost as if they were, at turns possessed, now, by African spirits, now, by caricatures of Euro-colonial racists.  It was something of a shock to this son of Iowa farmers to witness.

If I’d been advising Mugabe (not a likely scenario) I would have recommended leaving all the European farmers on the land for the time being but a shift of the tax base to a land-value tax ala Henry George—with a subsistence exemption to land owners of the African nations.  This would have provided the economic incentive to put land ownership under Africans without the heavy-handed displacements and trauma of the “land reforms” usually pursued by despots.

If the spectrum of East Asian->European->African measures, so often reported by such race realists as J. Phillipe Rushton, holds during this new regime of Chinese colonization of Africa, the results could be more devastating for the Chinese than they were for Europeans.