[su_liam]

The Chinese don't have to show much cultural sensitivity to look good next to Western structural adjustment policies. That's not to say future Africans won't look back at both the West and the Chinese with hatred and contempt, but I don't see much evidence that an understanding of the value of other cultures has noticeably influenced recent policy wrt Africa, and I don't think the Africans do either. If the Chinese have a part in Africa becoming anything other than an island of abject misery in a sea of transhuman glory, the locals might be able to overlook a lot of Chinese insensitivity.