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🇨🇳Communists Return? 🌐 Xi Jinping's right-hand man, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, has arrived on a two-day visit to Zambia - not for a holiday, but to implement a crucial Chinese project in the region. 🔸 During the trip, he will meet with Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema to sign an agreement under which the state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation will be responsible for the modernization of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, known as TAZARA. ⏩The road is an unexpected legacy of Mao Zedong era, built in 1975 with Chinese assistance and known as the "Freedom Railway," which became a key part of China's aid program in Africa as a counterbalance to European colonialism. Today, the road's modernisation continues to serve as a contrast to Western projects, particularly the Lobito Corridor from Angola to the resources of Zambia and the DRC. However, China's own approach today is driven by purely pragmatic market interests. Devils Below