ARTICLE: Chinese flocking in numbers to a new frontier: Africa, By Howard W. French and Lydia Polgreen, International Herald Tribune, August 17, 2007

Great piece, underscoring a lot of my analysis. Plus a huge new factoid: estimate by China of 750,000 nationals overseas.

Previous estimates from Western news sources rarely went above 100k. I recently used 80k because that's what the Economist said.

Clearly this is much bigger than we realized.

Cool theme? Chinese have been going to frontiers for decades, so no big deal--this 750,000-person "global commute."

Thanks to Shiva Polefka and Bill Millan for sending this.