China Salesman (2017) on Netflix

Plot summary

Michael is a French spy who works for the West. His boss orders him to go to North Africa and win a competition whose winner would hold the right to control communications between the South and the North, which would let France control the mineral resources of Africa. Michael hires Lauder, the best mercenary in Africa, and a former general named Kabbah to help him. Against them stands Yan Jian, a young Chinese engineer in information technology who volunteers to go to North Africa to help the company he works for win that same competition. Yan Jian works to spoil their plan.