while it is true that China's "developmental aid" is directed at exploiting the resource acquisitions it has made, much of this network can be used for other purposes. The main exceptions appear to be in Sudan and Zimbabwe where weapons and bribes have been more important than dual use development.
Consider this, however; Ethiopia is currently going through an economic crisis engendered by having too much food- grain crops developed in the wake of the last famine, which could literally feed the entire region, are stuck on farms for want of transportation infrastructure. The response of Western Aid agencies has been a comprehensive programme to....grow more food. The major backer of the Ethiopian government is the USA, which threw around weapons and money to sponsor the 'intervention' in Somalia.