The New Colonial Extraction: China

Rochelle Mutton writes The "...Chinese are forging a "colonial extractive relationship" with Zimbabwe, which has sold forward more than a year's worth of gold and tobacco production in exchange for Chinese military hardware and diplomatic support..."The Chinese have a huge interest in extractive industries everywhere. Their influence is certainly growing in Africa, not just in Zimbabwe but Angola, Sudan and elsewhere," he said yesterday. "But of course it will be at high cost to Zimbabwe. It's almost a colonial extractive relationship that seems to be developing..."
Via The Age