For decades, China has been engaged in economic expansion of breathtaking scope which has seen it buying its way across Africa, Latin America and even Europe. In exchange for building roads and transport networks, it has seized control of critical resources and strategic terrain, and gained access to distant markets. It has built ports in Israel and Greece , and loaned Jamaica $2 billion for transport, and invested another $3 billion in bauxite mining, sugar and tourist resorts. The scale of the Beijing regime’s ambitions seems limitless. Most recently it has begun investigating the possibility of mining the dark side…