Labelled the "deal of the century", it is the largest contract China has undertaken with an African partner. In return for infrastructure development – from hospitals to roads – to the tune of 3 billion dollars, the Chinese partners were granted mining access to deposits of cobalt and copper, valued at some 93 billion dollars, around Kolwezi in the south-eastern DRC.
 | A massive "resource for infrastructure" deal between China and the Democratic Republic of Congo has been criticised by Kinshasa as too favourable to Beijing. President Felix Tshisekedi was there in May… www.rfi.fr |
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
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