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China has an Africa Problem

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May 02, 2007
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The killings of nine Chinese oil workers last month by separatist rebels and the capture of several others in a remote area of eastern Ethiopia has come as a great shock to the Chinese. “Protect our compatriots,” thundered an editorial in the China Daily.

The editorialist would have done better to spend his energies looking up the recent history of the r…

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