China’s learning curve on Africa: will America help it learn faster or simply retreat to some 19th century competition (aka, realism)?
ARTICLE: “In Africa, China Trade Brings Growth, Unease: Asian Giant’s Appetite for Raw Materials, Markets Has Some Questioning Its Impact on Continent,” by Craig Timburg, Washington Post, 13 June 2006, p. A14. Good piece, reasonably self-aware (i.e., noting that all China is really doing is replicating a Western-style colonial-era exchange transaction with Africa–as in, give us your raw materials and we’ll sell you cheap finished goods but not really develop your economies besides building just enough infrastructure to facilitate our raw materials acquisition). The opening paras are very evocative: Every time newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube visits his native Zimbabwe, he said, there seem to be more Chinese. He sees them shopping at boutiques, driving fancy cars, picking up their children from elite private schools. And as in much of Africa, Ncube said, China’s reach into Zimbabwe’s economy is equally pervasive: The roads are filled with Chinese buses, the markets with Chinese goods,
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