Hu Jintao

Kabila has been invited to almost every major world capital: to Washington to meet United States' George Bush on 26 October; a date with Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt; an upcoming trip to China to meet Hu Jintao followed by a stopover in Moscow to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin; then to India to see Prime Minister Manoman Singh whose officials are putting together a Chinese-style investment package for Congo...

Many targeted companies are Asian-owned: last month protests forced China's President Hu Jintao to cancel a visit to the copper town of Chambishi (AC Vol 48 No 4)...

part of President Hu Jintao's $800 mn...

China's President Hu Jintao during the 10-day Africa tour which ended on 10 February visited South Africa Zambia Mozambique and Congo-Kinshasa - but not Zimbabwe...

Chinese President Hu Jintao's planned visit to the Copperbelt was cancelled at the last minute amid reports that several hundred miners working for the Chinese-owned Non Ferrous Corporation had organised a protest against him...

This last move was rather awkward for Johnson Sirleaf ahead of the state visit by China's President Hu Jintao on 1 February...

Hu Jintao's calling card After President Hu Jintao's visit in April 2006 China promised to invest $4 bn...

Wen knows personally the Deputy President of SA's governing African National Congress Jacob Zuma while President Hu Jintao and SA President Thabo Mbeki have known each other since they were their countries' deputy leaders...

President Hu Jintao missed out South Africa on his tour of Africa and the Gulf last month when he visited Saudi Arabia Morocco Nigeria and Kenya...

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited in February 2004 his sole-sub-Saharan stop on a tour of Africa that also took in Cairo and Algiers...