ERIC OLANDER, COBUS VAN STADEN, TOM BURGIS
Publicly, China’s engagement in Africa is purportedly based on “mutual
benefit” or, as Chinese officials like to phrase it “win win.” Behind
the scenes, though, it’s a little more complicated. Many of those
multibillion-dollar natural resource-for-infrastructure deals have been
arranged by mysterious middlemen like Sam Pa and his Hong Kong-based
Queensway Group. These go-betweens, according to reporting from the Financial Times’ Tom Burgis,
often do not live up to Beijing’s lofty ideals, as the overwhelming
majority of African people see little from the fruits of these deals
while politicians, brokers, and other elites pocket millions in profits.
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