From AFP:
The United States is to hold high-level talks with China to address concerns over Beijing’s deft strategy of boosting ties with developing nations through a no-strings-attached aid program, an official said Tuesday.
Washington hopes to launch this “new high-level dialogue” soon, US deputy assistant secretary of state Thomas Christensen said at a hearing of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congress-mandated panel.
Cash-flush China has recently made major diplomatic and economic inroads in mostly resource-rich nations in Africa and Latin America, and Pacific Islands by giving aid without imposing any conditions.
