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Pygmies will soon be learning Chinese...
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Pygmies will soon be learning Chinese...
The pygmies of Gabon?s lush northeast equatorial forests may soon be learning Chinese.
Buried deep in thick jungle in the least populated corner of the oil-producing central African state is one of the world?s biggest untapped reserves of iron ore, waiting to be developed. But the country selected by Gabon to help exploit the huge Belinga iron ore deposit is not former colonial ruler France, or any other resource-gobbling Western industrial power.
The chosen partner is China, the newest and hungriest raw materials raider on the African continent. The Belinga deal in Gabon is only the latest of a string of multi-billion-dollar energy and commodities contracts secured by the Asian economic giant to feed its ravenous economy. China is the world?s top steel producer.
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