The New Heart of Darkness: The Yoke of Chinese Imperialism in the 3rd World

This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats.

Meet the twenty-first century’s most aggressive imperialist state: the People’s Republic of China.

A new imperialist is preying on many former African colonies: one of the loudest critics and worst former victims of British and Japanese imperialism, the putatively Marxist-Leninist People’s Republic of China. Deploying a potent mix of state-subsidized capital, managerial expertise, and skilled labor, China is rapidly gaining economic control of a lion’s share of the world’s resources....