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Mon 08 Aug 2008Kaunda lauds Chinese role as 'force for good' in continent
CHINA'S AFRICA - ZAMBIA:Zambia's first president argues that China's push in Africa is well intended, writes Mary Fitzgerald
WHEN CHINESE president Hu Jintao visited Zambia last year he made sure to call on Kenneth Kaunda. The relationship between Zambia's first president and Beijing goes back more than four decades. In 1967 Kaunda travelled to China to seek Mao Zedong's help in building a railway that would link Zambia's copper belt to Tanzania's port of Dar es Salaam.
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