China Outpaces US on Rail Links to Africa Minerals
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China this week built on its lead over the US in the race to secure access to Africa’s critical minerals.
Xi Jinping’s government signed a deal with Zambia and Tanzania for the $1.4 billion revamp of a railway connecting the central African copper belt to an Indian Ocean port, revitalizing an iconic line that Mao Zedong’s China financed and helped build in the 1970s.