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Why the Con is Working

The con is working because both parties believe it can gain more than the other from the deal. As touched upon in class, these deals prove successful because “an honest man can’t be conned.” China is conning the corrupt African leaders. They are exploiting their feelings of relatedness (desire to look developed, live lavishly, etc.) in order to further their personal goals of becoming a regional power. Does this make China a modern colonizer of Africa? Or is this simply business as usual? Whatever the case, the reality is Africa needs foreign investment. Perhaps a solution may be to require a system that ensures new developments become long-lasting.
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  • I don't think that Leff would recognize his ideas in this
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    he is engaged not primarily in describing confidence games but in showing how people might join academic disciplines to make a theory of social action, as we are doing in our class. You could leave Leff out of this essay without hurting the essay in the least, and it would simplify matter for your reader. You would then be talking about resource imperialism, which has also been practiced in countless contexts. The whole problem is unlikely to matter very much, as the Chinese will almost certainly depart Africa rather abruptly now, leaving not completed projects that Africans are unable to maintain, but rather half-built projects that Africans are unable to complete. Still, to the extent that there is any longer a point in debating whether Chinese investment used to be a good thing or not, I think you explained the background and the contending positions clearly and insightfully.
 
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