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Countries:: China, India
Topics:: Business, Economics, International Relations

Africa is India's and China's new economic frontier, writes AfricaBeat: “In short, Africa could be for India and China what China and India have been the U.S. and Western Europe (and vice versa). South-South trade might one day be the engine that drives African development in the same way that Chinese manufacturing exports and Indian service exports are driving economic booms in those two countries.”

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cosmo

That is intresting ,but i believe the western white world agenda is to depopulate Africa and move its people in.

# 2006-09-27 at 22:41 pm

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