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IN 1998
IT MADE SENSE FOR RWANDA
TO SEIZE AND LOOT THE RICH COLTAN MINES
OF NEIGHBOURING CONGO, BECAUSE THIS ORE WAS IN HIGH DEMAND
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MOBILE PHONES AND LAPTOPS, AND CONGO HELD 80%
OF THE WORLD'S COLTAN RESERVES. Rwanda earned $240 million annually from the looted coltan.
For poor Rwanda that was a lot of money? In contrast, it would have made no sense for China to invade
California and seize Silicon Valley! Instead, the Chinese have earned billions of dollars from cooperating with
hi-tech giants such as Apple and Microsoft, buying their software and manufacturing their products. What Rwanda
earned from an entire year of looting Congolese coltan, the Chinese earn in a single day of peaceful commerce.
In consequence, the word 'peace' has acquired a new meaning. Previous generations thought about peace
as the temporary absence of war. Today we think about peace as the implausibility of war. When in 1913
people said that there was peace between France and Gemany, they meant that 'there is no war going
on at present between France and Germany, but who knows what next year will bring'?! When today
we say that there is peace between France and Germany, we mean that it is unconceivable under
any foreseeable circumstances that war might break out between them. Such peace prevails not
only between France and Germany, but between most (though not all) countries. There is no
scenario for a serious war breaking out next year between Germany and Poland, between
Indonesia and the Philippines, or between Brazil and Uruguay. This New Peace
is not just another hippie fantasy anymore. Power-hungry
governments and greedy corporations also count on it.
When Mercedes plans its sales strategy
in Eastern Europe, it discounts the
possibility that Germany
might conquer
Poland.
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