Africa is about to get interesting. Chinese workers kidnapped.

via Wall Street Journal.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon—Suspected militants from Boko Haram attacked a Chinese road-construction company in this country's north, kidnapping 10 workers, driving away vehicles and stealing blasting material, an official in Cameroon said Saturday.
The Friday evening assault in Cameroon marked the latest cross-border attack from a Nigerian insurgency blamed for a spate of recent kidnappings. News of the attack surfaced Saturday, on the same day Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, met in Paris with Western and African leaders.
Participants at the meeting agreed to forge a plan for combating Boko Haram, after the Nigerian militancy abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls and killed scores of civilians in recent shooting and bomb attacks.
Ahead of Friday's raid on the Chinese road construction company in Waza, a town bordering northeastern Nigeria, gunmen cut off power to the workers' camp. The heavily armed assailants killed one Cameroonian soldier before driving away about a dozen vehicles loaded with explosives belonging to the company, according to a local official, Albert Obounou.

The response will be interesting.

Will China sit back?  Will they launch a twitter campaign?  Will they pay ransom?

Or will they launch a rescue operation?

We will get an indication of how China views themselves.  Either they're really a global player or they're just a regional bully.

We'll see.