China has been making HUGE investments in Africa. They are getting extensive rights to minerals there. We ignore this at our own peril.
Our world view for the last 30 years, shaped by progressives, was that the Earth had limited resources, and that places like China had to reduce their population so that we can have cars. Instead, after the cold war ended, the developing world went on the single greatest development binge in world history, dramatically raising the living standards of 2 billion people or so, while we almost completely ignored it. Africa hasn't ignored it, and they want it too. We can go help other countries develop, and get a return on our investment, just like China.