The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

Heart of Darkness—China’s Parasitic African Safari

We should unite and drive U.S. imperialism from Asia, Africa and Latin America back to where it came from.

—Mao Zedong

China and Africa formally started their economic relationship in 1414 in the most spectacular of fashions. With great fanfare, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty dispatched a fleet of more than 60 galleons with crews of more than 30,000 to the “Dark Continent” on a mission of trade and exploration. This initial round of China-African trade also started in the most fair, equal, and promising of ways—with a pair of magical giraffes gifted to Chinese explorers by African leaders and the opening of trade routes that saw African tortoiseshell, elephant ivory, and rhinoceros-horn medicine ...