China's rise is no longer just about China -- and over the past year, journalists Heriberto Araújo and Juan Pablo Cardenal, working with a team of photographers, have collected images documenting Beijing's worldwide influence in 24 countries, from logging camps in Mozambique to gold mines in Burma.
SUDAN/MOZAMBIQUE: Two farmers, one Chinese and one Sudanese, pose on a Chinese-owned family farm south of Khartoum. Chinese state-owned companies have invested billions there, and Beijing regularly shields the regime from criticism. At right, a Chinese manager poses with local workers along Xai-Xai road, in south Mozambique. Conflicts between local workers and Chinese managers erupted last year in the former Portuguese colony because of allegedly abusive labor conditions for workers at the Chinese-run construction sites.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/22/china_international?page=0,0
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