Jose Eduardo dos Santos: the Angolan leader who looked to China to rebuild

China has paid tribute to late Angolan leader José Eduardo dos Santos , whose presidency saw the rise of an oil-for-cash relationship with Beijing that became known as the Angolan model . Do Santos died in Barcelona, Spain, aged 79 on Friday, and was in power for 38 years until 2017. He was a key Chinese ally on the continent, with the number of Chinese in Angola reaching a peak of more than 300,000 during a post-civil war construction boom. That number has dropped to less than 20,000 today, according to researchers. The Chinese embassy in Luanda said China "deeply…