BF2S Forums Chinese Wholesale Rape Of Africa

Out of desperation, much of the continent is selling itself into a new era of corruption and virtual slavery as China seeks to buy up all the metals, minerals and oil she can lay her hands on: copper for electric and telephone cables, cobalt for mobile phones and jet engines - the basic raw materials of modern life.

It is crude rapacity, but to Africans and many of their leaders it is better than the alternative, which is slow starvation.
For the governments, there are gargantuan loans, promises of new roads, railways, hospitals and schools - in return for giving Peking a free and tax-free run at Africa's rich resources of oil, minerals and metals.

Chinese News wrote:

In fact, totally different from the brutal and bloody ways the Western colonists plundered African resources in the distant past, China's cooperation with Africa in resource development nowadays, exactly as described in the country's official white paper, China's African policy, follows the principles of "reciprocity, mutual benefit and joint development" and is aimed at "helping African countries turn their advantage in natural resources into competitiveness and pushing African countries and regions toward sustainable development".