Chinese investors who were into diamond mining in Zimbabwe were deeply affected and short changed by former President Robert Mugabe's sudden change of the extractive mining policy, deputy Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zhao Baogang has said.
Baogang was responding to continued accusations by Zimbabweans some streetwise investors from the Asian economic giant looted the precious stone from gem-rich Marange and Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland during Mugabe's rule.
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