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Africa, China's new frontier - "One Chinese expert was so bold as to suggest that China needed eventually to send 300m people to Africa to solve its problems of over-population and pollution...
“'We have turned east, where the sun rises, and given our backs to the West, where the sun sets,' said Robert Mugabe predicting a new dawn for Africa thanks to the Chinese...
"His view is also shared by the West’s respected friend President Festus Mogae of Botswana, who runs arguably the best-managed country in black Africa. 'China treats us as equals, while the West treats us as former subjects,' he has said. 'That is the reality. I prefer the attitude of China to that of the West.'...
"Africa is now supplying a third of the oil fuelling China’s economic boom..." - Africa, China's new frontier
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