China's rise is no longer just about China -- and over the past year, journalists Heriberto Araújo and Juan Pablo Cardenal, working with a team of photographers, have collected images documenting Beijing's worldwide influence in 24 countries, from logging camps in Mozambique to gold mines in Burma.
SUDAN: Chinese workers stand in front of the Merowe Dam, a controversial Nile River project 220 miles north of Khartoum that has already forced at least 50,000 Sudanese to relocate.
SUDAN/MOZAMBIQUE: Two farmers, one Chinese and one Sudanese, pose on a Chinese-owned family farm south of Khartoum. Chinese state-owned companies have invested billions there, and Beijing regularly shields the regime from criticism. At right, a Chinese manager poses with local workers along Xai-Xai road, in south Mozambique. Conflicts between local workers and Chinese managers erupted last year in the former Portuguese colony because of allegedly abusive labor conditions for workers at the Chinese-run construction sites.
SUDAN: The China Dongfang Orthopedic Hospital in central Khartoum. With the exception of a local interpreter, all the staff at Dongfang is Chinese and cannot speak a word of Arabic. The investor is a Chinese businessman who runs several hospitals in the Sudanese capital.
BURMA: At a gold mine some 30 miles from the town of Myitkyina, dozens of Burmese miners, some as young as 14, work from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The technology is very rudimentary, and the work is hard.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
BURMA: The mining site, like others along the Irrawaddy River, is a concession given by Burma's ruling military junta to local warlords or businessmen -- who, it is believed, then make deals with Chinese financiers. China's border is only 60 miles away.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
CONGO: A Chinese farmer and one of his workers at a warehouse in Congo, where a $6 billion infrastructure-for-resource-rights deal has raised eyebrows.
ECUADOR: A Chinese worker clears brush in the Ecuadorean Amazon, where the Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro is building a dam.
ECUADOR: Former Guayaquil Mayor Harry Sun claims to be a distant relation of China's former leader, Sun Yat-sen. His foundation, Fundación Ecuatoriana China Dr. Sun Yat-sen, in his words, "takes care of the Chinese migrants in Ecuador and works to boost China-Ecuador relations."
IRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands with Chinese workers at the construction site of the Tehran-Shomal freeway project, near the Iranian capital.
CUBA: A group of Cubans practice the Chinese martial art of tai chi in the heart of Havana's Chinatown. Beijing is now Cuba's second-largest trading partner, just behind Venezuela. Trucks, cars, heavy machinery, and other Chinese goods are flowing to the island, despite sanctions imposed by Western countries against Fidel Castro's regime.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
MOZAMBIQUE: A Chinese entrepreneur at his logging depot in Beira city. Local activists claim that China has caused the deforestation of 25 percent of central Mozambique.
TURKMENISTAN: A gas treatment station in the small town of Farab, located in the middle of the Karakum Desert, is one component of a Chinese-financed plan to build a more-than-4,000-mile-long gas pipeline from Central Asia. China has invested an estimated $6 billion, though some suspect that, due to corruption, the actual sum of money flowing to Turkmen and Uzbek businessmen may be considerably higher.
ANGOLA: Angolan factory workers stand behind their Chinese manager. China's Shanghai Urban Construction Group was recently awarded a $600 million contract to build four large stadiums in Angola for the Africa Cup of Nations (Africa's flagship soccer tournament).
ANGOLA: A Chinese guard at a construction site on the outskirts of Luanda. In Africa, Chinese diplomats present themselves as an alternative foreign superpower, without the baggage of colonialism.
SUDAN: Chinese workers stand in front of the Merowe Dam, a controversial Nile River project 220 miles north of Khartoum that has already forced at least 50,000 Sudanese to relocate.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
SUDAN/MOZAMBIQUE: Two farmers, one Chinese and one Sudanese, pose on a Chinese-owned family farm south of Khartoum. Chinese state-owned companies have invested billions there, and Beijing regularly shields the regime from criticism. At right, a Chinese manager poses with local workers along Xai-Xai road, in south Mozambique. Conflicts between local workers and Chinese managers erupted last year in the former Portuguese colony because of allegedly abusive labor conditions for workers at the Chinese-run construction sites.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
SUDAN: The China Dongfang Orthopedic Hospital in central Khartoum. With the exception of a local interpreter, all the staff at Dongfang is Chinese and cannot speak a word of Arabic. The investor is a Chinese businessman who runs several hospitals in the Sudanese capital.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
BURMA: At a gold mine some 30 miles from the town of Myitkyina, dozens of Burmese miners, some as young as 14, work from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The technology is very rudimentary, and the work is hard.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
BURMA: The mining site, like others along the Irrawaddy River, is a concession given by Burma's ruling military junta to local warlords or businessmen -- who, it is believed, then make deals with Chinese financiers. China's border is only 60 miles away.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
CONGO: A Chinese farmer and one of his workers at a warehouse in Congo, where a $6 billion infrastructure-for-resource-rights deal has raised eyebrows.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
ECUADOR: A Chinese worker clears brush in the Ecuadorean Amazon, where the Chinese state-owned company Sinohydro is building a dam.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PABLO COZZAGLIO
ECUADOR: Former Guayaquil Mayor Harry Sun claims to be a distant relation of China's former leader, Sun Yat-sen. His foundation, Fundación Ecuatoriana China Dr. Sun Yat-sen, in his words, "takes care of the Chinese migrants in Ecuador and works to boost China-Ecuador relations."
PHOTOGRAPH BY PABLO COZZAGLIO
IRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands with Chinese workers at the construction site of the Tehran-Shomal freeway project, near the Iranian capital.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF STA
CUBA: A group of Cubans practice the Chinese martial art of tai chi in the heart of Havana's Chinatown. Beijing is now Cuba's second-largest trading partner, just behind Venezuela. Trucks, cars, heavy machinery, and other Chinese goods are flowing to the island, despite sanctions imposed by Western countries against Fidel Castro's regime.
Photograph by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araujo
MOZAMBIQUE: A Chinese entrepreneur at his logging depot in Beira city. Local activists claim that China has caused the deforestation of 25 percent of central Mozambique.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
TURKMENISTAN: A gas treatment station in the small town of Farab, located in the middle of the Karakum Desert, is one component of a Chinese-financed plan to build a more-than-4,000-mile-long gas pipeline from Central Asia. China has invested an estimated $6 billion, though some suspect that, due to corruption, the actual sum of money flowing to Turkmen and Uzbek businessmen may be considerably higher.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF CNPC
ANGOLA: Angolan factory workers stand behind their Chinese manager. China's Shanghai Urban Construction Group was recently awarded a $600 million contract to build four large stadiums in Angola for the Africa Cup of Nations (Africa's flagship soccer tournament).
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUIS DE LAS ALAS
ANGOLA: A Chinese guard at a construction site on the outskirts of Luanda. In Africa, Chinese diplomats present themselves as an alternative foreign superpower, without the baggage of colonialism.
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