EXCLUSIVE: Zambia is the world's largest raw copper exporter, one of many critical minerals for the global energy transition. Maintaining a mutually beneficial but delicate resource extraction relationship requires navigating longstanding suspicions on Chinese investors and workers, as our Editor-at-Large would find out herself.

Reporting for this story is supported by the Pulitzer Center.

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