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Africa Is Becoming China's New Oil Field, And The US State Department Is Not Happy
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Ingrid Pederson
“I will be talking about what that means, about a model of sustainable partnership that adds value rather than extracts it,” Clinton told a university audience in this West African capital. “That’s America’s commitment to Africa.”
This need for resources, particularly minerals and oil, could lead to extractive partnerships in which the African nations don’t benefit as much as they potentially could.