China in Africa: Path to Development or New Colonial Master?

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Posted to Politics on Fri Oct 27, 2006 at 06:34:07 AM EST. RSS.

Over the past few years African nations have increasingly been looking to the East for new sources of investment and development strategies. Years of failed IMF structural adjustments and a history of depressingly low growth rates have many Africans looking for a new way - but questions remain both about China's motives and whether its influence will offer more or less stability to Africa's future.

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