A foot in the door. China needs land, farms and a very stupid and mentally disabled dictator. A situation made for
China.
A foot in the door indeed and a rather strategic move as well. "Clowns to the left of us jokers to the right" so to speak.
That is the truth. I have been saying for months that China's goal is no less than the colonization of Africa, in the real sense of the term. They have found a real patsy in mugabe and they are going to capitalize on it. The bottom line is Africa needs to be re-invaded and have minimum standards of law forced upon it. If the west won't do it, the Chinese will. No matter how you slice it, Blacks lose. What a tragedy.
The other part of the equation is, when the Chinese colonize Africa formally, the only way to dislodge them will be a WW. If the present Africans think the west is racist, they ain't seen nothing yet. By comparison, the west is all super bleeding hearts compared to the Chinese. It will happen in about twenty years. You can bet on it.