China and Africa
Here’s a good analysis of China’s role in the Congo and our Africa Command’s work in the region. China has been meddling in central Africa since the 1960′s.
China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America’s New Military Command
by F. William Engdahl
This year, ahead of his twelve-day, eight-nation tour of Africa—the third such journey since he took office in 2003—Chinese President Hu Jintao announced a three-year, $3 billion program in preferential loans and expanded aid for Africa. These funds come on top of the $3 billion in loans and $2 billion in export credits that Hu announced in October 2006 at the opening of the historic Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) which brought nearly fifty African heads of state and ministers to the Chinese capital.
The entire article is worth a read.
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