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PostSubject: Leaked US cable says China has 'no morals' in Africa - Well waddya know, just like the US   Leaked US cable says China has 'no morals' in Africa - Well waddya know, just like the US Icon_minitimeThu Dec 09, 2010 3:01 am

The United States thinks China is a "pernicious economic competitor with no morals" whose booming investments in Africa are propping up unsavoury regimes, according to a leaked diplomatic cable.

The frank assessment by the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Johnnie Carson, was among the latest revelations in thousands of documents released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

"China is a very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals. China is not in Africa for altruistic reasons," Carson said in a February meeting with oil executives in Nigeria.
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"China is in Africa for China primarily," he said, according to a confidential February 23 cable written by the US consul-general in Lagos.

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