Mapping the World

Chinafrica? (29x18)

Data di messa in onda: Set 01, 2018

Clothing, mobile phones, motorcycles - most products on the African market today are "made in China". But the growing Chinese influence in Africa over the last 20 years goes even further: the African continent not only supplies China with raw materials and cheap labour, but is also an important geopolitical territory. Is there really such a thing as a win-win deal between the leading economic power with the oversaturated market and rapidly developing Africa? Or is this a new form of colonization? [arte]