In what ways were imperialist approaches to africa and china similar

china sought comunist revolution, it now seek global economic xpansion. As a result African continent has been the major area of chinese foreign economic investment. Numereous studies of china africa policy have appeared in recent years, a number of which accuses china of exploiting resouses rich african states or behaving like a imperial power in the continent, most notably peter hitchens's assertion that china is building a slave empire in africa.