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Peking made Angola its African partner of choice and first foreign supplier of petroleum, following this up with a shower of dollars of which Peking declared there were $9m, though only $7m show up in Angola’s accounts. Where has the rest gone? This ‘black hole’ provoked a diplomatic crisis between Peking and Luanda. However, private Chinese companies are still making a fortune. ‘In five years in Africa, I’ve never seen anything like it,’ exclaims engineer Zhou Zhenhong. In 2007 his small company built two schools, a hospital, a fire station and several residential blocks. SM