Letter from Uganda: 5,000 miles from China – and yet not far at all
Sep 26, 2019
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Five minutes out of Entebbe Airport, the gateway to Uganda’s capital, Kampala, you hit the new expressway. And all of a sudden you are in China.
I lived in China for a number of years. It didn’t take me a second to recognize the tollbooth architectural style as Chinese mock-monumental. Farther toward town, the concrete structures reinforcing the earthworks were familiar too.
The China Communications Construction Company, which built the road, had used the same tried
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