China driving harder bargains in Africa
16. Juni 2009 | Von atsil2 | Kategorie:Read the WorldChinese and Guinean workers toil shoulder to shoulder on a sun- blasted construction site at this crumbling city’s edge, building the latest symbol of an old and sturdy alliance: a $50 million, 50,000-seat stadium.
This city is littered with such tokens of a friendship that first flowered when Guinea was an isolated and struggling socialist state in the late 1950s.
Continue reading: As Chinese Investment in Africa Drops, Hope Sinks by Lydia Polgreen (The New York Times)