Africa aid

China’s Health Aid in Africa: Good Intentions, Bad Drugs

China Daily’s Africa edition, launched last week, is just the latest component of a long-running soft power campaign. China has been sending medical teams to Africa for almost 50 years, and has 42 currently at work around...

China in Africa: King Cobra and the Dragon

In the most recent episode of Al Jazeera’s People & Power, Solange Chatelard documents her time in Zambia during the campaign and election of Michael Sata. From the video’s introduction: China’s increasing...

Documentary and Debate on China in Africa

The Atlantic’s Damien Ma welcomes a new documentary on China’s presence in Africa from brothers Marc and Nick Francis: China’s expanding footprint in Africa has become almost synonymous with a paradigmatic...

Charity Begins Abroad: China and Foreign Aid

The Economist tracks the transition of China and the other BRIC nations from net recipients to net donors of aid, and explores differences between these new donors’ contributions and those of the West. Even today, America...

China in Africa: A “New Colonialism”?

In contrast with Hillary Clinton’s recent warnings of China’s “new colonialism”, the Stimson Center argues that China’s interests in Africa “should not be seen as categorically harmful”....

China 2008: China and the Developing World

Over the next week, CDT will post a series of topic pages on relevant issues facing China. The first, below, is on China’s relations with the developing world: One of the most interesting developments in China’s...

China Outdoes Europeans in Congo

In an analysis for Inter Press Service, John Vandaele suggests that ,in contrast to Europe’s colonial history in Africa, China’s thirst for natural resources (leading to a major Sino-Congolese deal of US$12 billion of...

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