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Africa must do more to profit from China

Migration, diffusion, and loss of sovereignty

"Typhoon Haiyan: What's a Superpower to Do? The U.S. dispatches a flotilla of aid, while China barely lifts a finger to help its neighbor"

Guangzhou, China - African migrants have been arriving in Guangzhou, China's third largest city ever since the Chinese economic boom began in the late 1990s.  Current estimates put their numbers anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000. The latter figure would place their population at almost two percent of Guangzhou's 13 million residents. In any event, Guangzhou's Africans constitute Asia's largest African community. The majority of them reside in a 10 square kilometre area in the central districts of Yuexiu and Baiyun locally known as "Chocolate City".

"Want to find the hidden center of the global economy? Take a drive along Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Freeway. This stretch of road is how you reach the companies that connect the vast marketplaces and digital powerhouses of the U.S. with the enormous manufacturing centers of China."

changing space shrinking world, interactions and flows, nice vid of twitter over 24 hours. note the times of peak messages and the lack of any in china [Submitted by Tim Shepherd]

The biggest ship on the world's waters is delivering record amounts of goods to Europe this Christmas, all the way from China, reflecting the country's rise as the world?s new manufacturing hub.