Peking became a model for Africa

Not surprisingly, China and gluttony in Africa. Since the octa, but especially in the last decade, China has shown an enormous appetite for raw materials of the continent oil and gas, but also timber, agricultural products and minerals needed to make electronic devices. The figures already known, the only available, IMF discuss trade relations have been growing in recent years to an average of 30% and likely to have exceeded U.S.

$ 100,000 million in 2010. But China seems to have gone to Africa to do business and run but to stay and bring an economic model that has been embraced by the continent. The Chinese government has encouraged its citizens to raise the Wild West here. About 500,000 Chinese, according to data from the Friendship Association of Chinese and African peoples, quoted in the book China in Africa (Partnership, 2009) - have migrated to Africa to work and earn more money than in their country of origin.

And they have stained their hands to get it. In Africa, the West complain about everything. The need to bribe to do business, the amount of paper that's due to start a business, heat, disease, mosquitoes and corruption. The Chinese work. They have built dams, pipelines and fiber optic networks.

Have revolutionized the transport with its low cost bikes, used as taxis to move around the continent have mounted hotels and karaoke. And all without complaint, at a slow pace and quiet. When the West has realized it was too late. Africans had preferred to do business humility China Western paternalism and all its values.

Without any of this, without speaking a word of indigenous languages, without mixing much with people but often living under the same conditions, China has done business with a very familiar language, the color of money. Africa welcomes the new competition to combat monopolies of the colonies.

Although this does not mean things will improve for the population. Most of the countries where China's presence there had growth rates above 4%, but poverty and unemployment still ends in them. The growth model has been married to the interests of African leaders, who have not been jeopardized his chair with demands for more democracy.

The future, more than ever, going to Africa and the leaders know it. The former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, and his country was preparing for the new world order: "We would like China lead the world, and when that happens we want to be right behind you."

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