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"God bless the Chinese," one senior American diplomat in Brazzaville put it bluntly. "They build roads and dams, and quite frankly we don't have what it takes to do those things anymore. All we can do is give English classes and try to sell our technology." China Safari tells the amazing and largely unknown-story of the rise of China's economic empire in Africa and how it will change the twenty-first century. China is Africa's second largest business partner, with trade now at more than $100 billion a year, and growing. Where others see chaos, corruption, and endless civil war, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and few political preconditions, China is bringing investment and infrastructure to a continent that the West has either exploited or has only seen fit for handouts. China seems destined to succeed where the West has failed. But is China starting to repeat the imperial arrogance of earlier colonial powers?
