{"id":4469,"date":"2014-07-26T16:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T09:06:59","slug":"turning-ethiopia-into-chinas-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/turning-ethiopia-into-chinas-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Ethiopia Into China’s China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopian workers walking through the parking lot of Huajian Shoes\u2019 factory outside Addis Ababa in June chose the wrong day to leave their shirts untucked. The company\u2019s president, just arrived from China, spotted them through the window, sprang up, and ran outside.<\/p>\n

Zhang Huarong, a former People\u2019s Liberation Army soldier, harangued them in Chinese, tugging at one man\u2019s polo shirt and forcing another worker\u2019s into his pants. Amazed, the workers stood silent until the eruption subsided.<\/p>\n

Zhang\u2019s factory is part of the next wave of China\u2019s investment in Africa. It started with infrastructure, especially the kind that helped the Chinese extract African oil, copper, and other raw materials to fuel China\u2019s industrial complex…<\/p>\n

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Ethiopian workers walking through the parking lot of Huajian Shoes\u2019 factory outside Addis Ababa in June chose the wrong day to leave their shirts untucked. The company\u2019s president, just arrived from China, spotted them through the window, sprang up, and ran outside. Zhang Huarong, a former People\u2019s Liberation Army soldier, harangued them in Chinese, tugging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[296,258,256,3229,434,3227,4695,4716,1299,3224,3228,257,3226,254,3225],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-addis-ababa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-oil","tag-china","tag-chinas-investment-in-africa","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-ethiopian-workers","tag-fuel-chinas-industrial-complex","tag-news","tag-peoples-liberation-army","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zhang-huarong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}