* 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
