* The failure to properly inform people about China's highly
innovative 'Scientific Concept of Development'; this concept is
arguably the world's most advanced economic policy, because it seeks
to replace one-sided emphasis on 'economic growth' with a concept of
wholistic or balanced development which fully takes into account
economic, social, and ecological concerns.

But surely this has nothing to do with Karl Marx or socialism or
anything like that, right?

* The new turn to a "green China, which includes development of the
world's first GDP to include ecological criteria and construction of
four new model eco-cities;

That sounds like shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped
in light of the Three Gorges Dam.

* China's very friendly and mutually beneficial current relations
with all of its neighbour countries, with Africa, and with Latin America;

Many African businesses complain Chinese companies dump cheap end of
line stocks, often bypassing customs and import duties. Not only does
this drive locals out of business, the cheap items are often of poor
quality. The influx of cheap Chinese goods to Africa decimates the
struggling local manufacturing industry. In South Africa, official
figures shows that cheap Chinese textiles have led to the lost of at
least 67 000 jobs the past 4 years. South African unions have lobbied
the government who is busy negotiating a free trade deal with China
to include clauses committing China to respect minimum labour, human
rights and environmental standards. Most African countries, just like
South Africa export the capital-intensive commodities or raw
materials that China hungers for, and import labour-intensive
manufactured goods from China. So, the rise in exports to China
typically generates few jobs, while imports from China take away
jobs. If this continues, argues South African President Thabo Mbeki
the African continent could be "condemned to underdevelopment", and
"recolonisation". Africans should heed the warning.

Full:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/needtoknow/2006/12/china_colonizing_africa.html

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