China puts its money where the bauxite, copper and cobalt is.
Luwowo Coltan mine near Rubaya, North Kivu the 18th of March 2014.
Credit: MONUSCO/Sylvain Liechti via Flickr
China has struck gold in Africa — particularly in the eastern nation Eritrea, where Chinese companies control two mines. Those are just a couple among the many assets Chinese interests now directly own across the vast continent to source commodities such as copper, cobalt and bauxite.
The mining sector has long been a major component of China’s investment strategy in Africa, which also takes in building traditional infrastructure such as roads, ports and railways, and — more recently â€
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