A New Frontier in the Exploitation of Africa’s Natural Resources: The Emergence of China in African Perspectives on China in Africa. [...] First, there were internal factors related to the will of the Chinese Communist Party elite to retain privileges and power as well as to rebuild legitimacy in the wake of such failures as the Hundred Flowers Campaign, The Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution,4 which brought decades of economic hardships. [...] In the same vein, the former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo asserted that the success of the Chinese model could be attributed to the fact that the instability created by democracy sometimes prevents the preservation of the strong political leadership required to accelerate development and economic modernization.12. [...] These issues are related to democracy, the development of civil society, human rights, and the establishment of the rule of law; and therefore to (1) the socio-political characteristics of the mode of development, (2) issues linked to the environment and natural resources, and (3) economic development and debt. [...] However, in the face of the failures experienced with this strategy, many voices arose in Africa to denounce a new form of colonialism: a thinly veiled interference on the part of the great financial powers of the West in the domestic policies of African countries.
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