As many Africans have been saying, invest not Aid. Many African nations are emerging markets, and are having a booming tech industry. Also, apparently many companies are moving away from China for cheap labor (even China is moving away) and moving to Africa.
The Chinese way---the cheap AKs (which are rip offs, just like a lot of their stuff) may not work as well, especially when those guns are turned onto Chinese businessmen in African countries.
lol, not a chance.
there is a huge number of resources in the continent, but when those are gone and they will go fast, it becomes useless. African cultures are tribal, corrupt and unable to sustain 1st world democracy without another culture in charge.
If we don't buy up all the resources up the Chinese will.. and those will be all gone in 50 years leaving just a black hole of refugees, AIDS and malaria
China deals direct with dictators, we have to pretend to use 'charity' and 'development' and go through the IMF/World Bank to extort those same resources. This is a much much more expensive process as these institutions steal a large amount of the money we are trying to extort from the countries.
we should take in their smartest workers along with their resources, a Sudanese engineer is worth 10 x more to the US economy in the big picture than a Mexican weed picker, but we'll chose the unskilled, illiterate with no money every time over a high skilled asset