In Africa, China is doing nothing different from what European powers have been doing for centuries. Trillions of dollars of American, and European foreign aid to Africa are sitting in the Swiss bank vaults of three generations of African dictators and corporate swindlers. We can choose to attribute this sort of waist to the inefficiencies of NGO’s, or we can choose to take the more realistic view that bribing the wheels of justice and power under the cover of foreign aid has long been par for the African course. I might get slammed for that, but like Frank Rich of the New York Times points out, once upon a time Enron was Forbes’ most innovative company six years running, and Tiger Woods was the face of wholesome America.

Yet, despite these similarities, no one ever talks about a three headed dragon of America, the EU, and China working in tandem to gut the African continent. This is interesting. But, why is it so.

I tend to believe that it is a dragon duel. The EU dragon has, to some extent, already had its time of free reign in Africa. One just need to Google the words “Berlin Conference,” “Belgium,” “rubber,” and “genocide,’ or to read a history of the Rwandan genocide to see how. What’s left is really Dragon China and Dragon America, and from either perspective, China’s or America’s, it is a logical media spin to show the foreign dragon and hide one’s own tail.