China's New Continent.

FOREIGN investments; INFRASTRUCTURE financing; DEVELOPMENT economics; PRIMARY commodities; INTERNATIONAL trade; INTERNATIONAL economic relations

AFRICA; CHINA

The article discusses China's foreign investment in Africa. Africa's relatively high rate of economic development from 2007-2009 is noted, as if the almost tenfold increase in China's trade with Africa in the 2000s. Examples are presented of China's investments in Africa, which often involve infrastructure creation projects in return for access to minerals and other primary commodities.