China Safari : On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa

China Has Now Taken Great Britain's Place As Africa's Third Largest Business Partner. Where Others Only See Chaos, The Chinese See Opportunities. With No Colonial Past And No Political Preconditions, China Is Bringing Investment And Needed Infrastructure To A Continent That Has Been Largely Ignored By Western Companies Or Nations. Traveling From Beijing To Khartoum, Algiers To Brazzaville, The Authors Tell The Story Of China's Economic Ventures In Africa. What They Find Is Tantamount To A Geopolitical Earthquake: The Possibility That China Will Help Africa Direct Its Own Fate And Finally Bring Light To The So-called “dark Continent,” Making It A Force To Be Reckoned With Internationally. China Safari tells the extraordinaryand largely unknownstory 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. But is China starting to repeat the imperial arrogance of earlier colonial powers? With trade between Africa and China estimated to reach $100 billion by 2010, China recently over-took Great Britain as the continent's third largest business partner. Journalists Michel and Beuret offer an intrepid and intelligent analysis of how Chinese economic investment is changing every-day African life-and the implications for China's role in the international community