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boo, autocorrect.



Are those workers permanent? Are there Chinese residents across Africa now maintaining and operating it, or is it the local populace doing the day to day maintenance and operations? Makes a big difference between the legal ownership and the de facto ownership if we are talking about hardball politics.
I don't know about Africa, but in Pakistan the Pakistani (middle class) are complaining that all the higher end jobs are taken by Chinese, meaning that even "investment" has little meaning, as all the skilled jobs that build up a middle class are reserved for Chinese. Presumably it's the same in African countries as well, and anywhere else they're doing this. The last I heard is that in Kenya they were taking over port facilities that were defaulted on. And it's formal Chinese policy to build a new Silk Road on the high seas, gaining control of strategic points between China and Africa.