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01/17/2005:

"Beijing's delicate balancing act in Africa"

BEIJING In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese engineers were hard at work throughout Africa, constructing stadiums, laying roads and building hospitals in the cold war battle for the hearts and minds of third world citizens. The politics and revolutionary idealism behind these projects faded in the 1980s but a fast-growing China with a voracious appetite for resources is now back with a vengeance.

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