{"id":6542,"date":"2025-03-17T02:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2025-03-17T02:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:27:27","slug":"a-river-died-overnight-in-zambia-after-an-acidic-waste-spill-at-a-chinese-owned-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/03\/17\/a-river-died-overnight-in-zambia-after-an-acidic-waste-spill-at-a-chinese-owned-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"A river \u2018died\u2019 overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mining-pollution-china-zambia-environment-93ee91d1156471aaf9a7ebd6f51333c1\">Article Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article reports on a failure of the tailings damn at a Chinese owned copper mine that resulted in the release of 50 million liters of toxic waste heading into the Kafue River. This has led to extensive environmental damage including killing fish and destroying crops along the riverbanks. The damage even extended to some groundwater sources. The Kafue river is one of the most important waterways in Zambia providing water to 60% of the population including that of the capital. The Zambia government deployed the Air Force to disperse lime into the river to neutralize the Acids. The leak from the Chinese mine has accepted responsibility for the incident with the Chairman Zhang Peiwen apologizing for this incident. He also has committed to the efforts to restore the local environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a blunder on the Chinese part in keeping their domination of the Copper trade in Africa. Besides keeping their lands and mines in the continent they need to keep the countries they rent land from happy this is not the way to keep many African countries happy.  Though the commitment to the restoration efforts may minimize the effect the effects may still be substantial to African Chinese relations. If we are talking Chinese grand strategy they need to tighten down on their hold over Africa by making sure these incidents stop happening so they are able to keep their soft power grip over the resource rich Africa that is much more receptive to Asia than it is any European country attempting to gain access to their resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This can relate to the ideas of soft power and how it is its own form of domination on the international stage. The idea that China can make these mistakes on Africa and not pay for them in the future is absurd. Even though their grip over the region should still be concerning for the west at least as China can be seen as the only competitor to the US in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Link This article reports on a failure of the tailings damn at a Chinese owned copper mine that resulted in the release of 50 million liters of toxic waste heading into the Kafue River. This has led to extensive environmental damage including killing fish and destroying crops along the riverbanks. The damage even extended to some groundwater sources. The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/03\/17\/a-river-died-overnight-in-zambia-after-an-acidic-waste-spill-at-a-chinese-owned-mine\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}