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Beijing is no longer happy simply playing a low-key support role to peacekeeping operations on the continent.
Beijing’s engagement in South Africa is amongst the most varied and complicated of any of its ties in Africa.
China is cracking down on African migrants even as many Chinese migrate to Africa.
"The worst one was the recent story in Zambia that China is exporting human meat in cans to supermarkets in Africa. Who would believe such a story?"
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Will China regret investment in developing nations?
A look at how Namibia's Chinese ivory smugglers operate.
"There are so many more Chinese people who live in my country and yet they don’t get hassled anywhere near as much as we do in China! Why?"
Is it naked imperialism in pursuit of the country's vast oil reserves or a genuine effort to bring peace to help end a brutal conflict?
And it may fit into a much broader foreign policy strategy than you may think.
Thanks to Beijing's economic transition, Africa has a chance to pick up some of the industrial production now leaving China.