RE: The Leopard Changes His Spotsilafalot2,
Do not underestimate the needs of the Chinese.
They need raw materials and have the same determination to get their hands on it as the Europeans had at the beginning of the last century.
As far as Ethiopia is concerned, the landscape there has been shaped by the rains for centuries. The resulting geology points to a mining bonanza just waiting to happen.
As for someone else comment that both Ethiopia and Tanzania are dirt poor states, this is because people like you and me have cornered their mineral deposits and are exporting the profits to the west.
As far as I am concerned, we are only here to make money.
Unlike the Europeans, I do not have to colonize the people too to get my hands on the wealth.