BBC: World: "A top diplomat defends China's growing economic role in Africa, including Zimbabwe and Sudan."

While the U.S. plays Dirty Harry on the world stage, alienating ever more of the worlds people, China is playing the globe like a chess game, maneuvering into position to capitalize on the coming rejection of America in S. America, Africa, the Middle East, some European nations and some South Asian nations. Bush has made a feeble countermove by striking up a conversation with Viet Nam on joint military operations. Bush is thinking military, China is thinking economic. Bush is thinking one move ahead, while China is playing for the end game. -- David R. Remer, PoliWatch.Org.