"China’s booming economic dynamo could be slowed and even forced into disarray if not chaos"
I can live with that.
They just built a whole railway system cutting into Tibet, to help with the recovery of minerals from rich mine-sites along the way. The railway also doubles as a means of populating Tibet with the Han peoples.
China is playing her cards with Africa. It is not just for minerals.
Guess who is following Hu Jintao... Vladimir Putin. Putin and Jintao want to wrap up all of the world's natural resources.