The American media pay scant attention to what is happening in the world. Most people I talk to are astounded to hear of the extent to which China is occupying Africa. China has a lot of competent people and Africa has few (given an average IQ of 70 or so), so this makes some sense. The Chinese have their army in Africa protecting their oil interests from the Arab Muslims. Here is an article about China's involvement in Africa from the blog "gfactor."

As the magazine AllAfrica admitted the problems caused by conflict between the continent's thousands of ethnic groups (i.e. tribes) (12 ii), hope beckoned as Africa's new imperial power, China, announced it had by 2007 sent no less than 750,000 workers to countries such as the Sudan and Uganda (Daily Telegraph, 12 ii) - apparently having decided, like the British in nineteenth-century South Africa, that Blacks could not be relied on for useful work and that what Africa needed was Asian labour.

{The attraction of warmer climes for the Chinese workers would have been enhanced in 2008 by the snow and ice that disrupted the lives of millions at the Chinese New Year and destroyed forests areas totalling the size of England. China's help for the murderous Mueslis of the Sudan prompted top film director Stephen Spielberg to withdraw from helping with entertainments at the forthcoming Peking Olympic Games.}