“…Commercial and technological ties with the developing world from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s were therefore strictly limited with the exception of its anti-Western neighbors, such as north vietnam until the 1970s, the red Khmers' Cambodia, burma and north Korea, and Pakistan as a way to contain Indian influence in South asia. China also developed projects in Sub-Saharan africa like the famous TaZara railway between Zambia, Tanzania and the Indian ocean, to promote its image as a champion of the third world but also to secure access to some key raw materials like copper (Fejtö, 1978;Cabestan, 2010;Shambaugh, 2013). In the least developed countries Chinese aid, military and technological expertise remained attractive given the scarcity of capital and technological skills, but compared to other major powers it remained marginal.…”