“a move likely to unnerve investors.”
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Don’t believe Chinese investors need to feel panic.
The Chinese are smart African colonizers. They found a system that works and is tailored to the particulars of African politics.
They give huge loans, move in Chinese laborers then when the country can’t meet the loan obligations they forfeit the port, rail lines, etc. to Chinese ownership, management and labor. The politicians won’t complain because they were paid off up front and don’t want to expose their culpability in the loss of national assets.
The Chinese will colonize Africa and rule its people in a modern version of the age-old process of colonization: pay-off the rulers, evict their people.