Don't worry about killing people

摘要

Barely a fortnight after soldiers loyal to Guinea's military junta butchered at least 150 demonstrators calling for civilian rule, a deal for oil and mineral rights worth around $7 billion has been struck between China and Guinea. That, at any rate, is being trumpeted by Mahmoud Thiam, Guinea's mines minister. He says the China International Fund, a large Chinese firm, will be a strategic partner in an array of projects throughout Guinea. It seems that China's commercial march across Africa will continue unabated, however vile the human-rights record of the governments it seeks to befriend.