Yes they, the military industrial complex are trying to contain China and monopolise energy and resources.Nothing much has changed since the Colonial days.Our Oligarchs want to control the planet.Less competition in energy and resources means higher prices and poverty for us.

Be aware of propaganda demonising China.China is not using violence in Africa.The Africans love them because they are not just taking but are building infrastructure and industry that gets the people out of poverty.

China has won the peace because our leaders have destroyed our economies with unnecessary debt,destroyed industry with over regulation and elimination of tarrifs, created bloated bureaucracies that tax us into oblivion and sold off Public assets like the Commonwealth Bank that used to reduce our taxes.Also our nanny states use tax churning to bribe their way into power and make people dependant upon socialist handouts.

Big Corporates are stealing from the masses and disobeying the rule of law.They have taken over our Govts and we just are oblivious to the reality and care not what Orwellian future awaits our children.

The West is in the throes of moral,social,economic decay and we have not reached bottom yet.

I thought it was a good summary and crystallises my feelings on it.
I am glad he did not forget the French and the Belgians, still living out their "Heart of Darkness" fantasies there as well.
Both Arjay and John Pilger also mention the new kid on the block, the Chinese back to curry favour in the post colonial world, to break the Western encirclement of themselves.
"Diamond" David Cameron and no doubt Russians, Israelis, Italians and others will also have their roles to play, really quite revolting..

Thanks Paul Walter.I think China's plan is to use the cheap Afican labour to manufacture their goods thus allowing wages to rise at home,expanding a new middle class that will consume more of their products.They have 1200 million people and only a third of these people are involved in the present boom.If people do not earn enough money to consume the products they produce,then there is no economic/social advancement

This will make China more independant of Western markets and increase their wealth nationally.

The USA is still by far the most powerful military on the planet.If we go to war with China,who will buy our energy/resources? Where will we get our cheap cars and computers from?

The other hidden secret of China's power is that Govt Banks create 80% of its new money, whereby in the West,new money is created as debt by private banks.Our Govts have to borrow from private banks for infrastructure or let private Corps own it and bill us.This is why China can grow at 8-12% while the West is lucky to get 2-3% growth.Looking at our financial structure we can never beat China economicly because of our debt based money creation system.

China does not want a war with us as it can win the peace.

Are you guys serious?

China the good guy and the West mere exploiters.

perhaps you need to ask ordinary Chinese their views about the Chinese political elite.

Here is an interesting piece on china

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/mark-kitto-youll-never-be-chinese-leaving-china/

others disagree at end of article

The Chinese expansion into Africa is having mixed results, and is certainly not the love-fest that some correspondents would have us believe. There are numerous incidents of exploitation and outright racism towards local workers, while some of the infrastructure projects involve the building of palaces and gardens for the dictators and semi-dictators of states who welcome China's relaxed attitude towards human rights abuses. For a balanced and well-researched account of China's involvement in Africa read China Safari by Serg Michel and Michael Beuret, with some very telling photographs by Paolo Woods.