China’s presence in Africa is not new. Gavin Menzies, a retired Royal Navy submariner and banker who later became an author in his treatise “1421: The Year China Discovered the World,” documented that “on 2/2/1421, kings and envoys from the length and breadth of Asia, Arabia, Africa and the
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