It fails to provide for desperately needed debt cancellation, poverty reduction or an end to structural adjustment policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. It will, however, help major multinational corporations. It doesn't lay the basis for Africa to have a manufacturing capability.
Poor economies lead to unstable political conditions.
The conflicts in Sierra Leone and in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are largely funded by diamond sales, which are controlled by criminally minded individuals. What the U.S. can do is constrain those sales. The unenforceable Levin provisions would provide no incentive for Beijing to change its behavior. It duplicates measures that currently fail to improve conditions in China on human rights and on trade. The Levin proposal would rely on United Nations sanction for enforcement, yet U.S. attempts to censure China at the UN High Commission on Human Rights have failed every year for the past decade.