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Een geluid uit de VS: Stephen Morrison [head of the Africa Program at the CSIS, Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank]: “There is a need for a more strategic approach by the United States if a costly and damaging and unnecessary U.S.-China clash is to be avoided.”

Een geluid uit Zuid-Afrika: "Is China Africa's new imperialist power?"
CITAAT: “there is a more serious question we have to ask, one with implications beyond our borders (South Africa): Will China replace Britain as South Africa’s imperialist power, a changing of the guard, so to speak - leading to South Africa embarking on military expeditions in Africa to protect Chinese capitalist interests? All serious anti-imperialists must consider and plan for the possibility of Africa becoming the future battle-ground between US-backed Western and Chinese expansionist interests, and unite the continent’s people in a battle against the oil barons.”

Een geluid uit China zelf: According to the November 29, 2004, China Business Weekly, the US-based Wal-Mart corporation, the world’s biggest retailer, bought $15 billion worth of products from China, mostly through a network of 5000 China-based firms. Today, Wal-Mart alone accounts for one-third of the $60 billion in manufactures exported from China.