[diesel00]

I think that Chinese involvement in Africa is going to present some racial strife of a very interesting nature should they "colonize"that part of the world.

Oh I believe there already are some racial tensions. However, I don't think it will matter because the Chinese don't deal with the African people, but rather the African governments. And it'll take a lot of Chinese repression for the African people to reject the Chinese and overtopple the African governments that are pro-Chinese. You probably won't see the Chinese imposing blatantly racist policies on these African countries (times have changed, this ain't the 19th century anymore), and so it will be hard to inspire the average African to blame everything on Chinese repression.

If the Chinese play their cards right, they have a lot to gain from this. If the Chinese turn a "Japanese" (turn militarialistic and arrogant) on the Africans, then the Chinese have a lot to lose in Africa. The Japanese before WWII could have been the leader of East Asia without firing a bullet had they played their cards right, but they blew their chance. The Chinese before WWII were more than happy to join the Japanese, but not in the style that the Japanese later devised.

[dennisw]

Africans hate the white man who is seen as a colonizer and exploiter. But will welcome the Chinese who will turn out to be more ruthless colonizers and exploiters.

[Riverman94610]

As I read more on the Japanese in WW2,I can see that if they had played their cards right,junked their racial superiority delusions and eased up on the brutal depredations of their occupation troops,they could have very easily had their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperiy Sphere and perhaps been the leaders of an"anti-imperialist"movement before the Communists hijacked them Post WW2.
I had a History teacher in Junior College who swore if the Nazis had not been so rabidly anti-Semetic,they could have won WW2 with the aid of their very talented Jewish Germans who could have added tremedously to the war effort.