This is the back story of why the DRC reached out to the US insted of China for a peace deal.
so why the US and not China?
Because China didn't keep their promises to help develop the country in exchange for buying developing stealing their valuable resources.
So here is what SP /Austin Bay wrote a couple months ago:
April 3, 2025
In mid-February, a firm representing a Democratic Republic of the Congo legislator contacted several U.S. officials. The recipients included Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The letter sketched a sub-Saharan version of President Donald Trump's Ukraine minerals peace initiative. Would the U.S. be interested in acquiring or investing in Congo's enormous and globally unique trove of critical and rare mineral resources?
The DRC has gold, copper, cobalt, tin, tantalum (coltan), lithium, gold and diamonds. The uranium for America's World War II atom bombs came from the then-Belgian Congo. Mobile phone and computer manufacturers need coltan (columbite-tantalite). Cobalt is a 21st-century treasure. Congo is the world's largest producer of cobalt ore, a must-have for electric vehicles.
Beijing coveted the DRC's mineral trove -- a global position of immense economic import. In 2006 and 2007, Chinese front companies began buying DRC cobalt, copper and rare earth mineral operations. In 2008 and 2009, China signed the so-called China Deal of 2008 the DRC's Kabila dictatorship.
The overall deal was supposedly worth billions. China was supposed to build roads and other infrastructure. It built ... next to nothing.
Italics mine.
In 2021, Congo condemned China and began legal proceedings to end Beijing's fraud.
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(by the way China pulled the same trick on Duterte, who thought all the anti China stuff was CIA trying to let the US take over our resources, but he got shafted by China and then stared to make nice with the USA).
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