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I-Net Bridge | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:46
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[miningmx.com] -- A WARNING of the dangers posed by the expansion of Chinese interests in Africa is raised by an article circulated on Friday by the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University.

The article pointed out that the depletion of Africa's resources is already a serious problem for nearly every nation on the continent.

China was explicitly seeking to expand its own direct exploitation of those already scarce resources, it said.

China is facing a severe crisis in food production, with grazing ranges and arable land being reduced dramatically by desertification and industrialisation.

As a result, China is seeking to lease or buy land in countries in several African countries, including Zambia and Mozambique, as well as Russia, the Philippines, Australia, Myanmar, Kazakhstan and Brazil.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo – a desperately poor country whose abundance of natural resources has made it the site of a catastrophic regional proxy war in which 5 million lives have been lost – China has secured a lease for 50% more land than the entire nation devotes to growing corn, its staple food, for 66 million of its own people, the article said.

The article warned that while the World Bank is working with the Chinese government to fund major industrial development in specific areas across Africa, as part of an effort to spur development and create jobs a number of questions arise about whether the China plan for African industry will be good for Africa.

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