While it’s nothing new for China to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries, the recent episode in Zimbabwe goes beyond China’s own historical record. His indigenization law, which required majority control of foreign companies in the country by black Zimbabweans, had angered China. While it is nothing new for China to interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries, the recent episode in Zimbabwe goes well beyond China’s own historical record. In the next decade particularly, China supported revolutionary movements in many countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In most of these cases, China supported the dictator in power over the uncertainty that would follow.

Source: Mint November 30, 2017 17:48 UTC