Ian Taylor, a professor of sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, is at present a visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge. He is the author of Law and Order: Arguments for Socialism and of Crime, Capitalism and Community.
Earlier this year, the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, went on a 12-day tour of Africa. In Zambia he announced that China would build an economic co-operation zone in the country that would attract...
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