A reported long-term copper agreement between Sudan’s Ministry of Minerals and a Chinese mining company has reopened a larger question facing resource-rich African states: when does “win-win cooperation” become resource capture? For years, Beijing has presented itself across Africa as the alternative to Western imperialism. Its official language stresses equality, sovereignty, non-interference, mutual benefit and South-South cooperation. China’s…
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