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Unlike China, its leaders claim, the West continues to hold African countries hostage through a combination of unequal trade deals, lack of access to capital markets, aid dependency, financial deregulation and economic liberalization, budget austerity, crippling debt, political meddling, and military intervention.

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I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box.

They were holding something like 700 people hostage.

They'd released a bunch of people, but they still had about 700 people hostage.

So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the police forces trying to deal with the situation.

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