I know it feels like I am obsessed with China's expansion around the world, maybe because I am going to Shanghai in three days, maybe because I fear it.
Well, this articles states that if Chineese help was welcomed at the beginning in the African continent, there is now more and more resilience about it: it feels like a second wave of colonization. Chineese intends to lockout natural ressources in exchange for building factories, hospitals, schools and roads. But more and more it feels like the infrastructures they build are cheaply built: an hospital had to be close only 6 months after its construction for security concerns! Same for the famous trans-Congo road built a few years ago...
Cheap payback for ressources? Not only, local traders feel invaded by Chineese manufactured goods, cheaper, that now appears on local small markets.
And Chineese bring along their tradition of corruption and agressive management, most of the african opposition now use an anti-sino feeling as an electoral argument...
http://www.economist.com/node/18586448?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/tryingtopulltogether
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