China's Presence in Africa Is a Marvel to Behold

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China's presence in africa is, in one way, a marvel to behold. It kind of hints it, like one of the advantages of that strategy, right? Which that i, you know, if a chinese company tries to buy a major like o e m, can get people's hackles up and raise a lot of but like, in the supply chain, they can kind of just be goingand. They clearly have been for a long time, making these acquisitions, im, and not sort of generating that fear and that back lash. And i think im certainly now they think about the us market as well.

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