Of late I've been reading a lot about China's resource deals in Africa. To put it simply, China agrees gets natural resources from African countries and in return builds infrastructure such as dams, roads, hospitals etc. China generally refers to this type of arrangement as a win win agreement. Is it possible to have colonialism develop in this manner as well? Instead of destroying native institutions in Africa and Asia, can European countries follow the Chinese model and get natural resources from Africa and Asia in exchange for helping out with infrastructure and economic development? Like for example if the British got a mining concession somewhere in Africa then they would agree to introduce Western medicine. This would be particularly useful with diseases like malaria for instance. This sort of arrangement would also hopefully avoid stupid things like measuring people's skulls to see their IQ and the like.