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China Targets Africa

March 11 2009


  Chinese military engineers with the U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo march to a road project in April 2008. The project aims at improving
access to a power plant that is the only source of electricity for the eastern DRC.
China is becoming a force to reckon with in Africa, exchanging its investments,
military assistance and peacekeeping efforts for African oil and mineral wealth.

Seeking to strengthen its own position, China has become one of Africa's most...

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