China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa
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ISBN: 1568584261 / Publisher: Nation Books, June 2009
The dramatic?and largely unknown?story of the rise of China’s economic empire in Africa and how it will transform geopolitics
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China has now taken Great Britain’s place as Africa’s third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent that has been largely ignored by Western companies or nations.Traveling from Beijing to Khartoum, Algiers to Brazzaville, the authors tell the story of China’s economic ventures in Africa. What they find is tantamount to a geopolitical earthquake: The possibility that China will help Africa direct its own fate and finally bring light to the so-called ?dark continent,” making it a force to be reckoned with internationally.
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