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metallica846 posted...

Isn't China just building infrastructure in Africa to gain access to mineral rights? I thought that was blatantly obvious.

Yeah here we will build you water treatment plants, now we are also going to build this massive mine kthx.

Yes but many African Nations are leveraging this well to create needed infrastructure and they use money received in the deals develop industries in tech and other areas. It's a trade relationship

Some countries have made good deals and get the best out of the trade relationship and some do bad. But at least they aren't dictating what their leaders can or can't do or are dropping drone bombs on their people, Regime change wars, funding dangerous militia groups covertly etc. Like the US and EU have been caught doing (as well as some Arabian nations)

Tanzania and Ethiopia are examples of Nations who had done great business with China and used them to their benefit