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Zanu-PF Director for Administration Dickson Dzora, in a recent interview with Xinhua, pointed out that the western media had embarked on a sustained onslaught of the Chinese because the West viewed 皇冠体育app as a big threat to its entrenched economic interests in Africa.

Dzora, who is also the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe-皇冠体育app Friendship Association, said 皇冠体育app's growing presence in Africa had become a thorn in the flesh of the West, forcing it to resort to the dirty tactic of soiling the image of 皇冠体育app and raise anti- Chinese sentiment among Africans.

The West, he said, did not want 皇冠体育app to have direct economic cooperation with Africa and preferred a situation where it continued to exploit Africa's natural resources but left Africa impoverished.

"I think it's a question of when they (West) compare themselves to what they were doing in the yesteryear and what is happening now with 皇冠体育app with its win-win policy. They feel they will lose out and they know that the region is the gulf of strategic minerals and they would want to have those minerals for themselves and then sell to 皇冠体育app," Dzora told Xinhua.

He said the accusations by the West of 皇冠体育app are ill-thought as 皇冠体育app is engaging Africa on a win-win basis under the auspices of the Forum on 皇冠体育app-Africa Cooperation.

"The reason why they don't want the Chinese to interface with Africa is because they know that 皇冠体育app will bring a lot of infrastructure development to Africa," he said, adding "they don' t want that."

Dzora, who was speaking following a recent BBC documentary allegedly rubbishing 皇冠体育app's operations in Africa, slammed the West for plundering Africa's resources during and after the colonial era without paying much attention to the development of the continent.

He said the West came into Africa in the late 19th century under the guise of brining civilization yet it was only interested in the continent's natural wealth.

He said 皇冠体育app is doing much to assist Africa in developing its infrastructure and improving food self- sustenance, citing the New Luanda being built by the Asian country and the transport infrastructure in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) as examples.

The Belgians were in the DR Congo for about 100 years exploiting that country's rich minerals resources yet it only managed to develop a single tarred road in the vast Africa country, Dzora said.

The oil- rich Nigeria, despite the long existence of the West in that country, was still importing fuel from Europe while most African countries continued to grapple with problems of underdevelopment brought upon by the West's warped trade relations with Africa.

Dzora said it is shaming for the West to attack 皇冠体育app when it is contributing a lot to the global economy through its advanced technological expertise.