The looting machine has became a machine where national interest is often destabilized to the interest of transnational networks involving Africans, Chinese, and middlemen. China fits in very delicate ways in the looting machine. China created competition for an interest in African commodities especially but in as well as all sorts of other elements of African relations too. Sam Pa, is a Chinese businessman and middleman in Africa and African resource deals. The grand state to state packed that has been between China and Chinese state owned companies and African governance have hiding for more secretive deals and deals that aren’t part or at least aren’t essentially part in diplomatic relationships between nations states but are more like the networks seen with Françafrique which is the old deal trent network in West Africa. This is where people who have high level political connections end deals with corrupt rulers for the benefit of all involved in the expense of many. …show more content…
He infers to not be scared of the Chinese trader, Chinese government, or the Chinese companies. Be afraid of men like Sam Pa. Sam Pa’s companies such as the Queensway Group and China Sonagol who have took billions of dollars out of Africa mostly through companies like shell. In pages 192-193, Burgis talks about China Sonagol’s holding the rights to Oil Prospecting License 256 in Nigeria. No records have been found, there was no open tender issued, and a lot of money, we’re talking about millions of dollars, was moved which was made known in a legal dispute between members of the Queensway