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...Africa. Once the Third World carefully watched the competition between India and China. India still has trouble aplenty, but economic planners no longer seriously consider the "Chinese model." Albania is China's only real friend, and Peking has but a few close acquaintances-Pakistan, Rumania, Syria, Nepal, Tanzania, Mali, Guinea. Peking has diplomatic relations with only 46 countries, and at present keeps ambassadors in 18 of them. During the Cultural Revolution, all but one of them were recalled to Peking...
...have invested little in new equipment. Instead, they have begun spreading into Africa in joint ventures with both the French and local governments. They have set up cotton mills and spinning plants in Bangui (Central African Republic) and Niamey (Niger), and they are negotiating about a third in Bamako (Mali...
...silent streets to secure key points. The rebels arrested the army's chief of staff and most government leaders and disarmed the militia. When Keita's yacht docked, troops seized the unsuspecting President and whisked him off to detention. The coup was over, but the difficulties for Mali's new leaders were...
...Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, is one of the poorest nations on the continent. Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady...
...rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita's policy of increasing dependence on Communist China and the Soviet Union. In Paris, officials were something less than dismayed by the coup. Keita had failed to keep pledges of reform made in exchange for French support of Mali's currency, and there were strong hints that France may have encouraged his overthrow. Now, further French assistance is reported to be in the offing...